For the past few months, I’ve found myself watching my old VHS movies, especially movies that I watched when I was a little girl. While doing this, I have found some great underrated films that tend to get lost in between all the princesses, Pixar animated films, and the newest live-action remakes.

They are also a great source of fashion inspiration.

So for my next few posts, I’ll choose one of these underrated movies each week and give you a quick recap of the film and its production, a rundown of each character’s style, and my own real-life recreation of each look.

From Disney, I’ve covered The Rescuers, Oliver & Company, 101 Dalmatians and Robin Hood. From other production companies, I’ve covered FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Thumbelina and The Swan Princess.

This week, I’m stretching it with the “underrated” part and I’m covering one of the most popular Non-Disney movies of all time, Anastasia. Read on for my Anastasia fashion guide!

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About Anastasia (1997)

Anastasia premiered in 1997 and it quickly became Don Bluth’s most popular film and, by far, his most successful. It is based on the 1957 film Anastasia starring Ingrid Bergman. Both films are very, very loosely based on the real life story of Anastasia Romanov.

While it is historically inaccurate, Anastasia was very carefully marketed as a fairytale based on historical events, and not the actual story of those events. This strategy meant that Anastasia was well received in Russia and a box office hit everywhere.