A fair number of costumes you see on the covers of books can very well come direct from movie stills. They photoshop them to change colors and minor details. Otherwise the dresses can be put onto models and photographed to use for the cover shot. Recycledmoviecostumes.com has lots of pictures of dresses that have been reused for book covers.
Maggie H. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: "Sharon Collier" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:27:01 To: 'Historical Costume'<[email protected]> Reply-To: Historical Costume <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [h-cost] costume on book covers, argh I'm curious--does anyone know the answer to this question? Do the artists who draw the covers of romance novels just come up with a costume out of their head, or do they pose the models in a costume from a costume warehouse or something? Some novels' covers look almost like photos; the costumes are horrible, but very detailed. Sharon C. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patricia Dunham Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 6:13 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: [h-cost] costume on book covers, argh Just ran across, by accident, 2 new CECELIA HOLLAND's -- hooray. THEN I looked them up online and the covers -- argh! Obviously art-directed at the bodice ripper set! The King's Witch is a Richard II period piece with a not-very-good Ren-faire wench in green, @ http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Witch-Cecelia-Holland/dp/0425241300/ref=ntt_at_e p_dpt_2. And The Secret Eleanor [of Acquitaine], which cover is better but not anywhere near right, @ http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Eleanor-Cecelia-Holland/dp/0425234509. Recent re-issue of Great Maria is even afflicted with this... although the cover looks like a renaissance angel, THAT is not appropriate for Maria! http://www.amazon.com/Great-Maria-Cecelia-Holland/dp/B005CDUUD2/ref=ntt_at_e p_dpt_3 The original Great Maria cover, http://www.amazon.com/Great-Maria-Cecelia-Holland/dp/0394485092/ref=ntt_at_e p_dpt_5 I now know isn't period for the story either, but at least looks period to SOME time! Funny how the original covers from the central-male-character, 1960-70-80 & 2000s titles are all very reasonable. chimene (a huge CH fan, for decades!!!) _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
