On Thursday 22 September 2005 1:07 pm, Abel, Cynthia wrote: > Costume designers for movies set in historic times may want to be as > accurate as possible but face a lot of caveats: > > The book "Hollywood and History by Edward Maeder
Yes, it's an excellent book. I got a used copy from a store once for under $3 US and buying it was one of the best decisions I ever made. > is an excellent guide > to the following > > 1) Designers are going to choose from sources that look most attractive > to the modern eye. Also some designers believe that slavish copying of > historic sources is slavish copying--it isn't creative. They are > artists, not unimaginative researchers. > > Personal aside here--I prefer histoically accuracy, but can understand > this viewpoint. I can understand the viewpoint, but in my opinion any designer who doesn't think that it's possible to design creative costumes in a period-appropriate style doesn't know enough about the costume of the period. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "As a general rule, if end users want to smash something repeatedly with a sledgehammer, that's a sign of bad UI."--Bram Cohen _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
