[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Today I was reading a book by the author that turned me onto this film in
the first place; the (fiction) book talks about the prior theater
production in the Hollywood Bowl, and mentions "fairies in cellophane."
In her Acknowledgments she cites help from the curator of the Reinhardt
Document Collection and the Director of the Hollywood Bowl Museum -- so
she's done some research. Possibly the cellophane is something they told
her, and possibly the costumer continued the use of it for the film.
Conjecture, but might be reliable.
The book, should anyone be curious, is _Rude Mechanicals_ by Kage Baker
Back when I was making belly dance costumes, I used a trim that was a very
narrow openwork gimp, with colored metallic cellophane woven in and out of
the openwork. It came in every color of the rainbow and, if weighted by a
paillette or bead at the end of each strand, imitated much more expensive
beaded fringe very well, at least, at stage distance.
Melusine.
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