Many of the accessories of the characters wardrobe were made from scratch by the costume department. All the shoes for “The Village” were handcrafted in Italy. Two hundred petticoats were made from fine cotton. Hats were handmade and were important to “The Village” as so many of the people worked outside in the elements.
Because the couple of hundred extras cast in “The Village” will be seen so often on camera throughout the story, Ann Roth made the decision to dress all of them as if they were principal cast. All the extras had multiple costume changes and multiple outfits, highly unusual for a film.