Even fictional characters make fashion choices, and you are careful to make the right ones for them. I have a leading lady who is young, strong, empancipated, with a science education, working as a journalist and with a practical approach to fashion. My leading man, the police detective, is very fashion concious but also practical and started his working life as a ballet dancer. They both like bespoke.
Anna mostly wears trilby hats. The name is from a play based on George du Maurier’s short story from 1894 ’Trilby’ and it is the female lead, Trilby O’Ferral, who wears the hat. In 1896 she was played by an actress who looks a bit like Anna – Virginia Harned. And – believe it or not – she was at least for a while married to a movie star looking quite a bit like Christian.
Anna ‘s choice of hat is much against the fashion of the day when big or rather enormous hats were the thing. There is a gorgeous silent movie about a lady getting a new hat at the Danish Film Institute:
https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm/streaming/film/en-ny-hat-til-madammen
However, Anna is a working woman, so that kind of hat is not really practical. She does of course have big hats for going out, just not quite the size of the one in the movie.
Christian’s hat is a fedora, which, just like the trilby, got its name from a play. This one was ‘Princess Fedora’, written in 1882 by the French playwright Victorien Sardou, and thus began its life as a woman’s hat – just like the trilby. (Victorien had other skills – one of which you can enjoy in book 1 ‘Into their stride’.)
Christian wears an Inverness Cape Coat – just like Sherlock Holmes. He did not choose this coat because of Holmes, but because it doesn’t crease the suit underneath and the cape is good protection from rain, which features generously in Danish weather.
The drawing of Anna is made by my best friend, artist Anne Gyrite Schütt while we – she – worked to find the face and look of both Anna and Chrsitian. She did rather well and has made all the cover illustrations for the series. (In fact, Anna looks a bit like her).