'I don't believe that because something is set in a certain year means that you have to be beholden to the style of that year,' she tells Refinery29. While recent blockbusters like The Serpent and Bridgerton edge into fancy dress territory, The Dig’s costume designer Alice Babidge approached the characters' wardrobes with more subtlety, making for a far more appealing and accessible aesthetic. From Pretty’s silk shirts, camel cardigans and perhaps the most perfect mackintosh we’ve laid eyes on to Lily James’ high-waisted Bermuda shorts and ditsy blouses with Peter Pan collars, every look turned out by the ensemble is pitch perfect.

Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.It’s the onscreen style that had us pausing the film throughout, though.

As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure.

In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMESĪ literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II

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