She said Lansbury sat down with the team for each shoot to decide what would be best for her and her character. Frazee recalls Lansbury’s Old Hollywood presence and regards the actress as the picture of class. Jennifer Frazee, who, was a freelance assistant wardrobe stylist on the show, told Vanity Fair during a phone call that she remembers the team going over each of the costumes with Lansbury. In a 1992, costume designer Eilish Zebrasky said she and the rest of the crew were careful to fit Lansbury in fashions that were reflective of her age-where she could be herself and didn’t have “to prove anything.” The spot-on look of Lansbury’s clothes, was, truly, a well-planned endeavor. But mostly it’s younger girls,” Brown noted to Vanity Fair on a phone call. “I see people commenting who are like, ‘I had no idea she wore this designer stuff!’ These are people who are my age and a little bit older. She started searching the looks and finding an entire fashion closet’s worth of designer names, noting the designer credit as the caption. She became fixated on the outfits when, in her mid-20s, she found reruns of the show. Like Harrison, Brown remembers watching the show at a young age, but she never noticed Fran Drescher’s carefully selected wardrobe, which boasted designers from Givenchy to Moschino. Shanae Brown, 26, started her account, What Fran Wore, to chronicle the fashion of the 1990s sitcom The Nanny. But she wasn’t the only one with this idea.

BuzzFeed posted a story titled “ Murder She Look’ Is Gonna Be Your Mom’s Favorite New Instagram Account” and by the end of the day, Harrison had more than 2,000 followers. The Instagram account caught the Internet’s attention. She’s found an outlet for her Murder, She Wrote fandom offscreen as well: Harrison is the creator and owner of a curated Instagram account called “ Murder She Look,” which follows the fashion of Jessica Fletcher, who in her mid-60s in the 1980s, was pulling off looks-high-waisted jeans, trench coats, floppy stylish hats-that a millennial woman might take off the vintage-fashion rack today. She welcomes the same notes she once cried through in her New York apartment several times a week as she watches and re-watches old episodes of the 80s classic. Her mother remembers her toddler daughter’s disruptive whine drowning out the theme’s first notes when the show began every Sunday at eight P.M.īut now, as a 32-year-old woman, Harrison has more than come around to Jessica Fletcher and her crime solving in Cabot Cove. She grew up hating that theme song-accompanied by the image of Lansbury’s hand as it stroked across the keys of the ever-present typewriter. In 1984, Dame Angela Lansbury first appeared on America’s TV screens as the widowed crime-solving sleuth and author, Jessica (J.B.) Fletcher, who bounced across her quiet, fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, on a modest bicycle, nabbing one murderer after the next to the tune of the pounding keys of her typewriter.Ĭici Harrison was born that same year, and the sound of the Agatha Christie–inspired show’s playful theme song, which her mother and older sister faithfully watched, was a constant during her formative years.

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