At 19:13 25/09/2006, you wrote:
In a message dated 9/25/2006 1:56:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought "Dangerous Liasons" was one of the better costume movies -
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It is yummy and delicious with chocolate sauce and a cherry!
James Acheson, the designer, always demanded to see the research for
whatever we were making for extras and bit players when I worked
with him on "Last
of the Mohicans". But if a polyester was "right" for the look he
wanted, he'd
use it [though I must say he prefers silks and linen]. He is concerned with
character 1st of all.
Glen Close's silk gowns are accurate to a degree. But, for instance, the
French backs are cut to make them more flattering. Each set of
pleats on each
side of CB are cut separately. They are two long gores...wider at the bottom
than the pleated up top. This makes her gown sweep up the stair
more gracefully
than the traditional straight panel....which you actually see in Michelle
Pfeiffer's more modest gowns.
Some of my colleagues I was at college with, learning how to make
frocks, made most of the ladies' costume for that, and were specially
chosen by James Acheson because of who had taught them and who had
led the research at that college.
Suzi
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