The red carpet at the 2012 BAFTAs – the British Academy Film Awards – had an air of British history traipsing along it.
Many a lady seemed to call upon the past when selecting her gown.
Whether the reference was to the Middle Ages, the Elizabethans or to the Edwardians, it seemed to capture the personality of the modern woman wearing the gown.
Imagine that.









Bérénice Bejo photo from PA via the Daily Mail UK; Melissa George photo from EPA via the Daily Mail UK; all other photos by Dave Hogan/Getty Images Europe.