She wrote a book, too, "Geisha", By Liza Dalby ISBN #0-394-72893-9. Mine was published by Vintage Books, division of Random House, in 1985. Originally published Berkeley: University of California Press 1983
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carmen Beaudry Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:45 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: now costume design, was Re: [h-cost] new Butterick pattern 5061 >I didn't either. As both a historian and a costume designer, I see no >reason to be embarrassed about the very good reasons why accuracy > is >often compromised on the stage. I still groan when I watch films with >terribly bastardized fashions, but I can often tell why they did it. >Telling the story is first priority. Accuracy is icing for the geeks. :) > > Melanie Schuessler Exactly. The ones that really irk me are the ones where the story would be better served by most accurate costumes and they still don't. I just read a very interesting article about Memoirs of a Geisha. Lisa Dalby, who is the only non-Japanese ever trained as a geisha, was a consultant on the film, and was upset that they didn't use the correct make-up, but did a modified version, until she overheard a couple of stagehands talking about how wierd the complete white-faced look was to them. She realized that, in order to portray the women as beautiful and sexy, the traditional make-up had to be modified for the modern and western audience, that where a Japanese (and especially an older Japanese audience would see them as being beautiful, the intended audience would not. Melusine _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
