On Sep 25, 2006, at 3:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/25/2006 3:49:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When did the drive for truly historical recreation really take off?
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I remember seeing a talk with designer Theodora van Runkle about how
she got
the film "Bonnie & Clyde" because nobody wanted to do it, and then
when she
did the research she was struck by the limpness of the 30's clothe.
They were
just like hanging pieces of cloth, clinging to the body. This was way
different from the stiff, synthetics with pellon in the linings of the
clothes that
people were wearing all around her at the time. She decided to go that
way,
looking extensivley at real clothes from the 30s. She said she was
continually
having to get her cutters and sewers to not put pellon in everything.
They
would wisper to each other "She doesn't want any innerfacing in
this!!!!!"
That film really started the 2nd hand, hand-me-down look of the late
60's,
I could never understand why, if she put so much attention on
historical accuracy in the costumes, she couldnt get the hair styles
right! Dunaways was pure 60s.
Sylrog
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