At least once a month, I’m nostalgic for the 2011 comedy-drama, Hart of Dixie. The exhibition takes place in the small fictional town of Bluebell, Alabama, has a stacked cast run through Rachel Bilson, and crucially presents one of the largest wardrobes I’ve ever seen on television.
Although I only see Hart of Dixie once every few years, thanks to my favorite fashion blog, WornOnTV.net, Zoe Hart’s modern shorts and elaborate Breeland lemon dresses are available to be able to look at with admiration and preference whenever I want.
I’ve been visiting WornOnTV since I was a teenager. And at age 27, the blog remains my go-to resource for finding cute clothes I see on TV, getting some fresh wardrobe inspiration, and revisiting memorable outfits from my favorite off-air shows.
The website, which was created in 2012 by Linda Wilks, catalogues wardrobes from older shows like Glee, Revenge, and Nashville, along with current shows like Insecure, Good Girls, Dead To Me, and The Baby-Sitters Club.
WornOnTV ranks screens from episodes to episodes and lists the garments and accessories worn by your favorite characters. Wilks needs to know where he can buy the precise garments presented on the screen, and if they’re not available online, it offers several similar features that he can buy.
Wilks, who still runs WornOnTV in 2020 with two collaborators, is now a 36-year-old mother living in Queensland, Australia. But he has enjoyed creating Internet sites since the 1990s.
At the age of 26, he presented his career as a fashion blogger with a little inspiration in Zooey Deschanel. In 2010, Wilks created WWZDW.com (What would Zooey Deschanel use?), A Commitment to celebrate the actor’s costumes on and off screen.
“When I started, WWZDW celebrity like blogs didn’t exist, at least as far as I knew,” Wilks said in an email to Mashable. “Zooey was my own taste inspiration at the time and I just used WWZDW as a glorified Pinterest board. So many other people started using the site too!”
In 2011, after WWZDW developed a significant fan base, Wilks created a similar fashion blog about Taylor Swift. And a year later, he expanded his fashion studio efforts with WornOnTV.
“It just became habit to wonder where all these clothes are from while I was watching TV,” Wilks said. “I figured I may as well catalog what I was finding. I never ever thought that in a few years I’d be doing it as a job!”
WornOnTV started off small, with a few shows Wilks was watching at the time: Community, The Big Bang Theory, and How I Met Your Mother. “They aren’t particularly fashionable shows, but I found their clothes to be realistic and wearable,” she said.
But after receiving an impressive amount of thank-you emails and costume requests for long-running exhibits, she created a suggestion box where enthusiasts can submit their favorite series for review. Now, 250 screens later, Wilks loves to surf the Internet in search of more TV channels than when he introduced the site.
For those who haven’t visited WornOnTV in the past nine years, it’s worth noting that a major part of the blog’s charm is the fact that it absolutely looks like it’s a decade old.
While WornOnTV has been following the evolution of television fashion since 2012, the appearance of the website has been slightly replaced since the age of 19. Its simplistic configuration reminds the old and intelligent Internet, and this is one of the things I like the most. not here to “surprise” you with an eye-catching user experience. The blog is only designed to help you search for shows, characters, episodes and outfits as much as possible. And that’s exactly what he’s doing.
Once you enter the vast virtual locker, you can type a quick screen in the search bar to the fullest or browse through the full list to see what has been cataloged over the years. (Faded screens are transmitted and, most of the time, their garments are sold out. But you can still take a look at what the characters were wearing.)
After clicking on a show, you have the ability to search for the outfits of a single character, or even search according to the episode.
Wilks divides his discoveries into categories such as communication screens, truth demonstrations and series on Netflix and Hulu to facilitate research. And break down garments founded on the newest outfits, pieces to have, pieces under $100.00 and men for your grocery shopping experience.
Once decided at a glance, as that denim jacket/checkered pants combo that Devi Vishwakumar wore in Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, the “Buy this style” segment refers to the precise combinations.
I navigate the costume pages of the fancy exhibits I love, like New Girl, The Mindy Project, Schitt’s Creek, Younger, Gossip Girl and Scream Queens, but I also look at the garments recreationally at exhibits I don’t see. (This is how I discovered this best star coat from Days of Our Lives).
WornOnTV is wonderful for nostalgia, but it also helped me find new outlets and brands to buy that I wouldn’t otherwise have verified.
While Wilks still loves The New Girl’s wardrobe, in those days she loves the casual garments That Eleanor wears from The Good Place and Issa from Insecure. But it gives anything for everyone.
Wilks explained that Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars were “the most in-demand exhibitions in the early days,” however, today, the popularity of the pages depends on the season of the exhibitions. “Soap operas have smart traffic, they’re on the air,” Wilks said. “Riverdale is an intelligent interpreter. Veronica, Betty, Cheryl and Toni have their own style expressed and explained, much like the Pretty Little Liars of their time.”
And The Bold Type, Dynasty and Euphoria are also wonderful hits because, as Wilks said, “You can’t realize fashion on those shows.”
While WornOnTV began as a secondary hobby project, in 2013, the website has become so popular that Wilks felt comfortable leaving his task as an Internet developer to keep the blog altogether.
“I paint on all aspects, technical and content creation,” he explains. And over the years, it has dominated the location of clothing.
“The focus of streaming Netflix’s frenzy is certainly difficult. People need the data NOW while they see it.”
“[It’ is based on the show. Some dress designers shop at the same stores/brands, and after a while to cover it, we can expand a verification style of some options first,” Wilks said. He also noted that it can take 20 seconds to several hours to look for a bachelor outfit.
When you can’t find garments in popular stores like Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, ModCloth and ASOS, Wilks searches Google using incredibly detailed terminology. Unfortunately, not all ensembles can be catalogued, as exhibits use dress designers to create original garments.
Since Wilks has been combing through television fashions for nearly a decade, she’s able to easily recognize and label duplicate outfits, like this one floral print mini dress that’s been featured on Netflix’s Selling Sunset, Sweet Magnolias, and The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia.
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Although the broadcast has facilitated access to character costumes, the scrolling of episodes and the capture of some scenes, the speed at which the episodes are published and fed has made wornOnTV management much more difficult.
“Netflix’s frantic approach is certainly difficult. People need the data NOW while they see it. Meanwhile, we are desperately looking to get a few weeks of paintings in a few days,” Wilks said.
In 2014 and 2015, Wilks was discovered “working 16 hours a day, feeling absolutely overwhelmed” and still unable to meet the program’s demands. Finally, in 2017, he hired two participants to help manage the site that were “invaluable” for WornOnTV’s growth.
“There’s a lot of need for new screens to load all the time, and there’s no way I could have done it myself,” he said. “Since then, I’ve had young people and I’ve selected to prioritize them. Now I’m in strict times!”
Wilks is lately on maternity leave, so he has temporarily closed WornOnTV’s suggestion box. But he plans to return to the site later this year and hopes to join the fashion studio team soon.
WornOnTV has lasted nearly a decade on the Internet and remains an online paradise for fashion and television fans. He has competed with other sites such as shopyourtv.com, famousoutfits.com and blogs committed to express programs, however, Wilks is proud to offer original content and locate outfits not yet known online.
My only complaint about WornOnTV is that I needed it before in my life. Some of my favorite fashion moments were from the early to mid-2000s at exhibitions such as Gilmore Girls, The OC, Friday Night Lights, Smallville and One Tree Hill. But it’s understandable that Wilks can’t do a lot of things with off-air programming.
Hopefully in 2030, WornOnTV still exists and we will tour with nostalgia some of the most popular series today.