Favorite Movie Costumes

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Marilyn's pink column gown from GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES

Natalie Wood's beaded white/silver stripper costume from GYPSY.

Jane Fonda's white dress & wide brim hat from THE CHAPMAN REPORT.

Scarlett in blue

This iconic bikini (Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder in 'Dr No.').

From Zardoz

Richard Gere's Armani wardrobe in 'American Gigolo'.

My favorite from VOTD

"Camelot" - Guinevere's stunning wedding dress

A better picture to show the detail in r12

Just a little black dress.

Raquel's fur bikini.

Just a little white dress

Elizabeth Taylor , A PLACE IN THE SUN.

I've made a copy of that dress, R17, for a good friend's wedding. I handmade 500 velvet violets, and it was gorgeous.

Wow, r18. That's cool!

Bette's entire wardrobe from NOW, VOYAGER. Especially the Fritillaries cape, which is a shocking red in person! I had always imagined it was chartreuse.

The only memorable thing about ATONEMENT.

Wrong photo @R20. I was distracted by Paul Henreid.

R21, thanks. Now I don't have to see it. That's the only time she;s ever looked good to me. Only a bone thin lady looks good in those bias cut silk gowns.

Bette's films have so many good ones.

Margot Channing in her cocktail party dress.

Claudette Colbert's "travelling outfit" in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.

R3 That costume was made for a cut number called "Mr. Monotony" in EASTER PARADE. Garland remembered she liked it, and used it again.

It's very flattering.

Julia Roberts aside, the red dress was stunning.

RASPBERRIES!

Audrey Hepburn has worn some stunning outfits.

Love Grace Kelly's Rear Window dress

Miss Billie Burke as Glinda in Wizard of Oz. One of the costumes that made me want to design for films. I preferred Margaret Hamilton's role, but Glinda's dress. Bille was so charming.

Audrey from "Sabrina"

Audrey from "Sabrina"

Another famous swimsuit

IT isn't pretty at all, but Sigourney in Alien is an excellent costume.

Ahahah, nice R35. Don't post poor Mae West from that, please.

I so wanted to be her.

R4 I read this dress was lined with green felt, like would be found on a pool table. I guess it gave the fabric body, and made it just stiff enough to hold shape? I'm not clear on the reasoning...

That was a repacement design, incidentally. The designer talks about the original intent, that was much racier (fishnet and rhinestones) HERE:

I love watching her descend the staircase with the plate of bloody steak.

This is the first movie star dress I ever fell in love with...so elegant.

Constance Bennet in TOPPER. Simple lines and all beaded in white.

Rita Hayworth in 'Gilda'.

Grace Kelly's blue chiffon goddess gown in "To Catch a Thief" by Edith Head.

[quote] Simple usually wins the day. I like Faye Dunaways clingy chiffon number in THE TOWERING INFERNO.

In the same film Susan Flannery's simple man's shirt was a lot hotter.

Anthea Sylbert, for CHINATOWN

R44 Maybe she jumped because she had no costume change to look forward to. She was like, "Fuck this...I'm [italic]out'ta[/italic] here!"

I loved Cate’s costumes in “Cinderella “ along with the prince’s tight white pants and Cinderella’s ball gown.

Barbara Streisands bronze dress in "Hello Dolly".

R47 I agree all those done for Cate in CINDERELLA are jaw-dropping.

All of this, and no one's thought to mention the Oscar-winning costumes from Bram Stoker's Dracula? For shame! Eiko Oshika created actual works of art for this film (Oldman's red gown - worn when Dracula welcomes Harker to the castle - was inspired by Gustav Klimt, and Dracula's armour is both horrifying and surreal). I've always found the Victorian-style costumes to be amongst the most beautiful costumes designed with that time period in mind in films from the 90s.

OP, Pauline Kael loved that dress. She referred to it as "puce see-through chiffon," and said it made Dunaway look "goddessy-beautiful." I agree it was one of the all-time best movie dresses.

Audrey's wedding dress in Funny Face

The great red dress Michelle Pfeiffer wears to the Van der Luydens' dinner in "The Age of innocence."

My favorite of all the great "Now Voyager" dresses is the frst one Bette davis wears on board the ship when she makes her first appearance after her transformation.

The beautiful art deco silver dress Joan Chen wears to the coronation party at the Salt Tax Palace in "The Last Emperor."

Barbra Stresiand's Cecil Beaton-designed white empire-waisted dress with the bizarre giant turban with the giant white opals, from "On a Clear day You Can Live Forever."

it's not exactly flattering, but it's unforgettable.

I'm not crazy about the color combination, but threading the chiffon pannels thru the bodice of this AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER dress is interesting. A lot of movie costumes had most of the detail on the torso and neckline, as that's what would show in the majority of shots.

It would be pretty in white, with blue.

R56 Yes!

Another iconic bikini

This is pretty nice. I imagine it silvery lavender....

Sorry...A FOREIGN AFFAIR (1948)

Ursula Andress as the immortal Ayesha in 'She'.

Kim Novak's impeccable tailoring in 'Vertigo'.

In the Mood for Love

If you have the body for it, Jean Harlow's lean, skimpy dress in HELLS ANGELS (her first big part.) It's like wet Klenex.

Howards End

Brideshead Revisted

Another Country

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (the slip underneath, too).

Faye in 'The Thomas Crown Affair'.

A burgundy velvet tunic worn by the magnificent Anton Walbrook in [italic]The Red Shoes[/italic]. Actually all of his costumes in [italic]The Red Shoes[/italic] are fantastic, but this is my favorite. When he tears it open you see that it has a lining made of gold silk.

Nice caftan...

I'm a sucker for all the qipaos that Maggie Cheung wore for In The Mood For Love.

What R74 said. And this.

All of Barbara Stanwyck's clothes in [italic]The Lady Eve[/italic] are cool. I don't think Edith Head, for all her fame, was a terribly inspired designer. But the clothes in this film of hers are special.

Lauren Bacall had some nice robes

Aside from the Jean Louis (?) Grecian stuff she wore in ONE TOUCH OF VENUS, I don't really associate Ava Gardner with a lot of truly spectacular clothes. But this green dress from SHOWBOAT really suited her..

She was more about the closeups

Re: R79 Sorry, Orry-Kelly did the clothes in ONE TOUCH OF VENUS, not Jean Louis

[quote]Julia Roberts aside, the red dress was stunning.

This will probably earn me some brickbats, but I actually think Marilyn Vance's overall costume design for that movie was very good - the fact that I can remember all of Roberts' outfits from the movie - the white shirt with tie-dyed miniskirt and tall black boots, the coral shorts suit, the brown-and-white polka dot dress, the magnificent red opera gown, even the jeans and black blazer combo that became a trend after that - says to me that Vance knew her business.

On another note - the costumes for the film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer are gorgeous, and I am particularly taken with this blue robe worn by Rachel Hurd-Wood's character:

This thread is everything... love it.

The kimonos in "The Makioka Sisters" were sublime.

I always liked this one in her famous bitchy scene.

Hedy Lamarr and her Peacock Dress from Samson and Delilah.

Gloria Stuart's silky white dress from The Old Dark House. She looked like an art deco goddess as the wind was blowing through it.

Iconic

The boys clothes in The Talented Mr. Ripley

The girls wore it better

Joan Crawford's mink jacket and hat in Mildred Pierce

Joan Crawford's shoulders in Mildred Pierce

Elio’s shorts.

Every costume in Funny Face

Doris Day's simple white cocktail dress with gloves in iPillow Talk

I like this Joan costume from Sudden Fear. Sheila O'Brien was the designer.

Everything in Evil Under the Sun

A quiet Armani break before the upcoming Dynast period. Lauren Hutton . American Gigolo

MInd if I post in your little movie thread? My goodness, I have so many to chose from. So hard to pick just one.

Daniel Craig's swimsuit in the James Bond movie Skyfall.

Jean Harlow's look didn't gel until she moved to MGM and got her Adrian makeover.

Just a little bit of candy in a wrapper

R99 made me laugh.

Elizabeth Taylor’s beauful white dress in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”

This dress from House of Flying Daggers.

Cyd Charisse's green skirt in "It's Always Fair Weather." There's nothing else like it anywhere. It has an inner life all its own.

Margot Tenenbaum’s fur coat and loafers.

Fun fact about the qipao/cheongsams in In The Mood For Love - if you watch the entire film, you'll notice that Maggie Cheung's character wears a *lot* of them. She never wears the same one twice - there were forty-six in total (though not every one made it to the final cut of the film). Apparently the character she plays wears them as a nod to her pre-Revolutionary China roots (the film is set in 1960's Hong Kong - a fascinating time, btw). Her hair and make-up, whilst appearing simple, actually took five hours a day to do.

A film that got panned (unfairly) on it's release was the middling Jupiter Ascending. The costume design is gorgeous, but one thing that stands out is the use of 3d printing for things like jewellery and personal items the off-world characters wear. Swarovski crystals were used a *lot* in the costumes - notably for Tuppence Middleton, Douglas Booth and Mila Kunis - and the overall effect is pretty spectacular.

Pretty much all the costumes after entering the killer's mind in The Cell.

And everything Joanna Shimkus wears in the Taylor/Burton chewed-to-bits mess, “Boom!”

It’s hard to find screenshots to post because she wasn’t the STAR. And Taylor had the caftans and headdresses, but I loved Shimkus’s simple casual wardrobe.

Bruce Lee's sleek yellow tracksuit from Game of Death, recreated for The Bride in Kill Bill.

Barbara Stanwyck's spectacular outfit from The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.

Look at the contrast with rival Lizabeth Scott in this shot! Stanwyck looks like a knight in studded armor compared to Scott dressed like a simple rube.

Two kinds of sexiness, soft vs. sophisticated, going head to head.

The point where costume & art direction meet . . .

Cornel Wilde, "The Naked Prey"

Melanie Daniels

Does animation count?

Wendy Hiller's performance and her costume in Murder on the Orient Express are are almost one to me. She's dressed as if she's going to a funeral, perhaps her own, in severe black with what looks like glistening crow feathers festooning her head. Everything from the lace accents to the jewelry scream not just Old Europe but almost ancient aristocracy.

^

The veil!

I love Marilyn's cherry dress in The Misfits. It's the only thing that makes me wish the film was in color. The dress is very pretty and flatters her but is just slightly tacky/trashy, which works perfectly for the character.

Another great costume/set combo is Tim Yip's designs for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

'nuff said

Diana Ross's wardrobe from Mahogany.

Harlem Nights. The clothes were sharp.

To R122 -

Thank you, Miss Ross, for posting on the DL.

And I'm sorry, but the best part of "Mahogany" was the theme song.

Costumes by candlelight (and oh that hat!)

Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette has the most stunning costumes and cinematography of this century. The movie is mesmerizing to me.

More Marie Antoinette. Costumes by Milena Canonera

Hong Kong Garden ball scene

R29 - I love you so much!!!

There are some great, crazy costumes in BLADE RUNNER, especially this getup on Joanna Cassidy.

This is rather iconic.

All of Charles Busch costumes in "Die Mommie Die"

Norma gets buggy......

All of Charles Busch costumes in "Die Mommie Die"

r97, Evil Under the Sun is a feast of glitz!

Can we do some men's costumes? Loved the Armani suits in The Untouchables

Everyone in the 1974 version Murder on the Orient Express.

Agatha Christie period pieces had a great run for about decade.

That green skirt worn by Cyd Charisse in It's Always Fair Weather and referenced by r106 is indeed to die for.

If you watch carefully, you'll see there are 2 versions, one for her big dance number in in the boxing ring Baby, You Knock Me Out, which has the highly unusual and inventive back pleat to allow for all sorts of high kicks, and one for the non-dance scenes, which is the more conventional pencil skirt of the early 1950s.

[quote] Daniel Craig's swimsuit in the James Bond movie Skyfall.

He didn't wear a swimsuit in SKYFALL. That's from CASINO ROYALE.

All of Eva Green's costumes in 300: Rise of an empire:

And all of Charlize Theron's costumes in Snow White and the Hunstman

Madame Satan!

The Chronicles of Riddlick featuring a very sexy Karl Urban wearing guyliner

"Claudette Colbert's "travelling outfit" in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT."

Also her wedding dress. It was one of the most gorgeous wedding dresses you'll ever see in a movie.

ALL the costumes in "The Wizard of Oz" were perfect for the movie. Adrian should have won an Academy Award for them, but there was no Oscar for costume design back then. He was also responsible for the magnificent costumes tin the Norma Shearer vehicle "Marie Antoinette." Adrian should have had a shelf full of Oscars, not that awful Edith Head.

Pamela Sue Martin's evening gown with highly convenient shorts underneath was both fashionable and functional. You never know when disaster might strike and you will have to make a climb for it.

Stella Stevens is also gorgeous with her low cut gown and diamond in the cleavage. (and of course just panties underneath, what else would she need?) And she also did the man shirt two years before Flannery.

[quote]Love Grace Kelly's Rear Window dress

Rear window? For surprise anal?

No one's mentioned this yet?

Glamma? Ya want glamma?

chic chic chic...cha cha cha

Chloris Leachman as Nurse Diesel in Mel Brooks's *High Anxiety*. This is her dinner outfit in the dining room scene: an amazingly effective synthesis. A little Napoleonic-era admiral, a little Counter Reformation archduchess, a little 50s-era hospital drama, a lot of 70s kitsch. Patricia Norris was the costume designer.

And you'll observe that, having of course arrived to dinner on time, she does get fruit cup.

Faye Dunaway's huuuge wardrobe in the 80s mini series EVITA is amazing. It's by William Travilla, who did most of Marilyn Monroe's clothes, and VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.

I love Cyd Charisse's gorgeous, sequined black dress with the red lining from The Band Wagon.

This......

That....

The costumes in Maurice were impeccable, every detail.

Cyd Charrisse's green dress in Singing in the Rain. Or maybe it is more her legs than the dress ?

More Maurice. The clothes looked great on the floor too.

Grace Kelly's white chiffon evening dress in TO CATCH A THIEF is perfection. I believe the costumes from this film were Edith Head's personal favorites, of those she did.

Sex and the City

[quote] Especially the Fritillaries cape, which is a shocking red in person! I had always imagined it was chartreuse.

Mary!

R43

Years ago Bloomingdales used to run storewide promotions. One year they did a Hollywood promo and they had many original costumes from classic films on display. Rita's Gilda gown was one of them. The dress was so tiny it couldn't zip up the back of the super thin store mannequin.

That is a truly hideous dress, r163, but fortunately it is on a truly hideous woman.

Percival Graves in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. Very dignified and refined. The costumes in that flick gave away immediately the personnality of the characters. And so they won an Oscar.

The person (R108 ?) who mentionned the gorgeous costumes in the much derided Jupiter Ascending is right. It's like it was made for another movie, with a better script.

la-de-da

Yep.

Yes, I love Grace Kelly's white dress in To Catch A Thief, it was perfection. Love that movie too.

More Maurice

Another vote for To Catch a Thief. Cary also looked great in every shot.

...from the sublime...

Barbie The Birds

Nice hats.

I have adopted this for my daily uniform.

Room with a View

The Wings of the Dove

When the war is over Ashley...when the war is over ( violon playing)

This

Cary Grant's famous suit in North by Northwest. This blog post has some interesting info about it:

Gene Kelly. Anchors Aweigh

Sharon Stone gold dress in Casino

R153 reminded me that the costumes in the 1996 film Evita were excellent. I think it has some kind of record for number of costumes.

Clint Eastwood. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. One of the more iconic male movie costumes.

It's so silly and so perfect.

Eddie Cibrian in "But I'm a Cheerleader"

More Maurice

r155 That really is fabulous

Death in Venice

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Orlando!

An Oscar wasn't given for Costume Design until 1949 and then there were 2 - one for color films and one for b&w.

Didn't Edith Head win them both that year? The Heiress and Samson and Delilah?

Poor Adrian and Travis Banton, 2 of the real geniuses of the art had retired by then.

When Tilda is male in Orlando, with Quentin Crisp as the Queen:

Greta Garbo to Adrian upon her retirement:

"You know, I never really liked any of those costumes you designed for me."

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

A Thoroughly Modern Wardrobe!

This gorgeous dress in Titanic.

All the costumes in Moulin Rouge! were stellar, but this was my favorite:

Catherine Deneuve in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Jacques Demy coordinated her wardrobe with the wallpaper.

Another vote for Maggie Cheung's dresses in In the Mood for Love.

This site breaks down all 21 of them, and there isn't a dud in the bunch.

I adored every part Keira Knightley's outfit during the political rally in the Duchess. Such fun.

Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice. The devil wears white.

Zeffirelli’s Hamlet (the one with Mel Gibson) was terrible, but I remember loving everything Glenn Close' wore.

Before drag was co-opted by the world:

Marilyn's strapless pink dress with the gloves and the big bow in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is considered a knock off of Rita Hayworth's black strapless dress with the gloves and the big bow in "Gilda." They are very similar, except for the color.

r198 I always thought that dress made Kate look fat; it was wearing her. I think this was the best look in the entire movie.

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

I loved the costuming for the BBC's Pride and Prejudice. They did an excellent job of combining historical accuracy with using the clothes to help illuminate the characters.

The Sandmen from Logan's Run.

Simple elegance in executioner attire.

The droogs' "uniform" in A Clockwork Orange. And of course Alex's eye makeup, which makes him stand out.

R208 Oh God, those wigs and make-up were atrocious!

Cher's shopping outfit.

R183 I believe that was made by Bob Mackie, "The Prince of Sequins." and weighed something like 50 lbs. It reportedly hurt Sharon Stone's neck. (But maybe she said that "for a little extra publicity.") (puff puff)

He also supplied the orange and white beaded halter dress the actress wears elsewhere in the film.

Stone really is remarkable in [italic]Casino.[/i] I read somewhere Scorsese first offered the part to Sean Young (!!) who was pregnant. If that's true, then that wacky dame has the absolutely WORST WORST WORST luck in the history of cinema, losing [italic]Batman, Dick Tracy[/italic] and [italic]Casino,[/italic] in addition to being cut out of [italic]Crimes and Misdemeanors[/italic] and almost all of [italic]Wall Street.[/italic]

HOW DOES ONE DO THAT?!

The Loser...not laughing now.

R207, really? I thought she looked perfect in it. But the dress by itself is amazing as well. I do agree with you about that suit dress. Very memorable way to introduce a character.

Does eyewear count as costume?

If so, Ava Gardner in Tam-Lin.

More eyeglasses and another swimsuit.

Really, just about any of the outfits Audrey Hepburn wears in Two for the Road with Albert Finney.

I couldn't find the picture that really shows off the entire costume to its full effect, but oh, how fun it would be to go around wearing one of Salome Otterbourne's "orientalist" getups.

The Chotchkie's Flair in Office Space. Supposedly TGI Fridays got rid of their flair because of this movie.

How 'bout some comedic costumes...

"YES, YES CYCLE SLUTS!"

r219, here's another look at the drunken mess of Salome Otterbourne, though out of focus. You'll have to peer between Bette Davis in frilly white lace with a massive, severe choker and Maggie Smith in dynamite dyke drag.

I.....I....I just....

Angela Lansbury in "Death on the Nile."

More Death on the Nile.

R192 The clothes in ORLANDO [italic]are[/italic] beautiful. And gay historical figure Quentin Crisp as Elizabeth I is a poignant treasure I'm so glad is preserved on film forever [bold]: )[/bold]

Thank you r192 and r226 I've never heard of this movie, but I'm excited to see it.

All the clothes in Tom Ford's A Single Man....

r223 - Edith Head voiceover at 2:42:

"This is very startling and done so deliberately."

Amen to that.

Ann Miller gets bonus points in Easter Parade for having dogs that match various ensembles.

Nicholas Clay in "Evil Under the Sun".

Whether she admits it or not, every woman wanted a Priscilla Presley nightie.

This thread is reminding me that costume design is really a lost art

r231, that swimsuit should be hanging some sort of Hall of Fame alongside Daniel Craig's from Casino Royale.

Most of Doris Day' movie costumes were gorgeous. I liked the one below in particular.

I can't find a good photo, but for a purported $10,000 budget (which is a mere pittance for films), the costumes in Hedwig and the Angry Inch are so good. This outfit was made out of hair:

R97 Yes! More Evil Under The Sun!

Evil Under The Sun.

Faye in The Thomas Crown Affair.

Child self was obsessed with Milady De Winter in the Three Musketeers:

Something I'll point out in relation to Jupiter Ascending: the Wachowski's have a habit of getting designers to make some incredible costumes for their films. The wedding dress from Jupiter Ascending is probably one of the stand-outs from that film, but I'll also say that Cloud Atlas has some beautiful costumes in modern science-fiction, especially the off-the-shoulder top that Bae Doona wears as Sonmi-451. We're so used to seeing drab and dull costumes in science fiction that people like the Wachowskis stand out - no matter how controversial the film - because of their use of colour. Colour is *important* in Cloud Atlas - especially blue and purple

r241- The Wachowski sisters (!) have always used the same designer- Kym Barrett.

The lovely Marquise de Merteuil from Dangerous Liasons:

Jayne Mansfield wore some great outfits in "The Girl Can't Help It"; here's her "big entrance", in a dazzling white satin/diamonds/fur (not to mention platinum hair) combo (the publicity photo doesn't really do the outfit justice, though):

Jayne's body-hugging navy blue suit, from the same movie:

R223 Interesting! It's kind of funny hearing Edith Head [italic]rave[/italic] about her own work.

Between you and me, I never really liked Lana Turner. She was lovely when very young, and had a great body...but there's something kind of doughy and inert about her (except when she's dancing.) Even her face doesn't seem that finely chisseled. It's a bit crude.

Either Pauline Kael or Judith Crist was reviewing MADAM X (1966) and said something like, "This escapism would be fine, if we were treated to divine locations, and breathtaking clothes on someone like Capucine. It's not art, but it's enjoyment of a kind. But Lana Turner doesn't wear clothes well. She wears them like wealthy, matronly women without much style wear them."

But Lana Turner doesn't need my pity - she was a huge star and married 7 times or something (before swithching innumerable [italic]dicks[/italic] for the love of Jebus.)

EVIL UNDER THE SUN is such a "pretty" movie.

Cyd Charisse's beige outfit from the "Red Blues" number in "Silk Stockings" -- the skirt seems to dance along with her (see the perfect moment at 2:43):

Tons of beautiful furs and fur-trimmed clothes in Doctor Zhivago.

Lana Turner looked delicious in her teens, I'll give her that [bold]: )[/bold]

Judy Garland felt very deflated by her looks when they were at MGM together.

^ Forgot to add a pic.

Say what you will about the movie, but this look is iconic.

12 year old me REALLY liked this loincloth.

IMO, Natalie Wood never looked better than in THE GREAT RACE wearing an Edith Head designed wardrobe for the turn of the century comedy.

Also great from Grease: all the hand jive scene clothes, especially Sandy's white dress and stems and Danny's pink and black suit.

And, of course, from Saturday Night Fever, that iconic reverse tux style white suit with a black shirt, and the classic 70s Halston-inspired dress.

I'm not really a fan of Kiera Knightley, but the clothes she got to wear in Pride and Prejudice are beautiful, especially this outfit. In fact, *all* the outfits in this scene are lovely - especially Bingley's overcoat.

Can you blame her r249?

Amber Waves!

Hey r206!

MM's hot pink Diamond's/Best Friend gown and Rita's black Gilda gown have NOTHING in common other than that they are both strapless. Take a closer look, please.

TIA!

His designs have been mentioned here so many times but no one has said his name: ANTHONY POWELL

Evil Under the Sun

Deathn on the Nile

101 Dalmatians

Travels with My Aunt

One thing that can be said about Edith is that she managed to disguise the fact that Barbara had a low-slung butt r77.

All of these posts, and nobody mentioned the iconic outfit worn by Liza in Cabaret?

It seems like Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Cyd Charisse could wear anything and make it work. But the ultimate fashion icon in movies has to be Faye Dunaway.

Who designed this dress?

Don't axe!

Yes, r261!!

Black velvet strapless gown with train worn by Crawford in QUEEN BEE.

The movie was uneven, to say the least, but Man From UNCLE did have lovely costumes.

I think we can all agree on this gown being a true classic.

Senta Berger in a Pucci like mini dress with green suede boots in THE AMBUSHERS.

The rest of the costumes in THE WRECKING CREW were mediocre but this periwinkle cocktail dress that Moss Mabry created for Elke Sommer was hot.

"MM's hot pink Diamond's/Best Friend gown and Rita's black Gilda gown have NOTHING in common other than that they are both strapless. Take a closer look, please"

YOU take a closer look. This was said about the dress Monroe wore: "Monroe's pink gown in "Gentlemen" bears a striking similarity to Rita Hayworth's black "Gilda" gown, also strapless and worn with opera gloves" The quote is from "La Parisienne in Cinema: Between Art and Life."

I don't care WHO said it. Post photos of the 2 gowns and you tell me what's so similar, r271 (do you really think that because both ladies wore opera length gloves with their evening gowns, it made the gowns similar in design??). Anyone making that claim knows nothing about dressmaking or costume design and is clearly not very observant.

r266 she did not have the body or face to pull that number off. A decade to late my dear.

Have we not mentioned Scarlett's white dress that she wears in the opening scene, with the ruffled skirt?

The stage costumes in ZIEGFELD GIRL are gorgeous in that "You Stepped Out of a Dream" number.

And let's not forget Adrian's fashion show costumes in THE WOMEN! And that sparkly dress Crawford wears at the end!

You bitches have fallen completely to sleep! The MOST famous costume in Movie history...

No one's mentioned this stunning number in aqua yet?

Speaking of Babs and "The Owl and the Pussycat"

That's an excellent dance costume, R247, it really does change from ordinary, even frumpy, into poetry in motion.

Her totally ordinary skirt, blouse, and flats do the same thing in the "Bandwagon" number, "Dancing in the Dark". It's always been one of my favorites.

I guess these are considered tacky, but I've always loved them.

R279, those festive dresses give me a huge smile every Christmastime.

I love the costumes Anna Johnstone did for THE GROUP.

More from THE GROUP.

[quote]R264 Who designed this dress?

Irene Sharaff, who also did GASLIGHT, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, THE KING AND I, WEST SIDE STORY, CLEOPATRA, FUNNY GIRL, HELLO DOLLY, and THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT.

MOMMIE DEAREST made her quit movies. Of Dunaway she said, "I'm off this film! I will not work with that [italic]drug addict."[/italic]

She also told a reporter, [italic]"Yes, one may speak with Miss Dunaway and Yes, you may enter her dressing room. But you have to throw a raw steak in first, to distract her."[/italic]

Did Don Loper do any movie work?

R284

He did Marlene Dietrich's clothes in something called RANCHO NOTORIOUS (not one of her best efforts) and some TV. But as he had a boutique, I bet a lot of his clothes were purchased off the rack (I don't think they were made to order) and then featured in various films over the years, uncredited (?)

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[quote]Don Loper (1907 -1972) was a fashion designer, based in Hollywood from the 1930s and into the 1960s. He designed the costumes for several films such as The Big Combo and Looking for Love. In the early 1950s he designed the outfits Gracie Allen wore on the Burns and Allen Show. In 1955 he was featured in an episode of the I Love Lucy show entitled – ‘The Fashion Show.’ He also designed the stage costumes for the famous Copacabana nightclub in New York City. Loper was known for his lavish gowns and for Hollywood glamour, but he also did licenses for items such as ties, men’s shirts and nurses’ uniforms for Medico.

Thank you R285

R285

You're welcome!

R284 Here is Marilyn in a Don Loper gown...but it was for a magazine layout, not a movie.

I wonder if it was $500.00?

[quote]You bitches have fallen completely to sleep! The MOST famous costume in Movie history...

Yes, yes we have I'm afraid; 288 responses and this is the first post to mention this iconic costume:

Very poor quality video about the "Funny Girl" costumes narrated by DL fave .... Miss Arlene Francis! (They show a better version on TCM occasionally.)

I've always loved her shoulder pads, R289.

Weren't they incredibly fashion-forward for 1935?

My favorite costumes ever for a movie were the insane trendy outfits Piero Gherardi made for JULIET OF THE SPIRITS.

[quote]R289 the first post to mention this iconic costume:

I think I will adopt this look as I age. The hair's striking, and draws the eye upward. And the caftan shape's very "[italic]forgiving,"[/italic] as we say!

Giuletta Masina's titular wealthy housewife in JULIET OF THE SPIRITS was supposed to look dowdy compared to her fabulously glamorous mother and sisters, but she got some very becoming outfits. I love this colorful little sprigged coat she wore.

The famous bathing outfit from Juliet of the Spirits.

The best costume for the day

Scarlett O'Hara's red dress that she wore to Melly's birthday party. The one Rhett made her wear, then shoved her through the door and left her there to face them alone...after her moment with Ashley at the lumberyard was seen by India Wilkes.

R296 Oh [italic]undoubtedly,[/italic] Little Edie.

Don't forget your coat if you go out!

[quote]R297 ....after her moment with Ashley at the lumberyard was seen by India Wilkes.

And completely MISINTERPRETED by that bitch, thankyouverymuch!

(Typical!)

How old are you people? lol Some of these costumes are from 100 years ago.

The ultimate costume drama. Gong Li, Chow Yun Fat, Curse of the Golden Flower. Sumptuous!

R300, fuck off

Love the Salome Otterbourne looks!

Never enough Anthony Powell.

Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element.

[quote] How old are you people? lol Some of these costumes are from 100 years ago.

Here's an interesting fact of which you're clearly somehow unaware: film preserves images for decades afterwards, so you can actually [italic]see[/italic] them again much, much later after they were made!

In fact, there are things called DVDs which actually allow you to see films made years before you were even born (apparently in 2010)!

r30, it's called Culture dearheart- do you only read books, listen to compositions or look at art that is less than century old?

Ah yes, r304, Gaultier!

The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (also Gaultier):

The Fifth Element is like catnip for gays. I remember watching it as a gayling and saying that I wanted to dress up like one of the sailors on the Phloston Paradise. Gaultier is a *genius*.

Do music videos count? Not even a fan, but I've been obsessed with the yellow dress with the insanely long train from Taylor Swift's Wildest Dreams video ever since I saw it. It was designed by Christian Siriano.

Say what you will about her or her music, but damn the girl has an awesome sense of style and aesthetic.

Marilyn’s nude bodice in Some Like It Hot

Joan Crawford wore this stunner of a dress in The Bride Wore Red.

And speaking of red dresses...

R310 Her hair in that movie's unflatteringly awful.

Her face is too severe for that straight bob.

The Letty Lynton dress.

Lea Sedoux wasn't a very compelling Bond girl in Spectre, but this dress, made for movement, was fantastic.

Monica Bellucci had a much smaller role in Spectre, but was exponentially more interesting.

And her funeral outfit was superb!

That look may be iconic, R251, but it was not created for the movies. In the 1970's, that look was everywhere. Motorcycles, spandex pants... everywhere. I was in high school and I wore it to the mall.

For r300, who seems lonely and is crying for attention:

Louise Brooks from the silent film era in Pandora's Box.

She has an oddly contemporary demeanor and seems destined to wear clothing that makes the eyes bug. This dress is one of my favorites.

From 1919, not quite 100 years ago, but just a year off.

Gloria Swanson in Male and Female.

Outlandish peacock headdress complete with peacock head as a protruding horn.

Pearls, pearls, pearls, embroidered into the gown and strewn in a pool on the floor. And don't miss the shoes.

The ensemble even upstages the lion depicted devouring the movie star.

They had that art deco/Egyptian thing goin on, R318.

I loved two looks that actually impacted fashion trends: Faye Dunaway's costumes for Bonnie & Clyde, and Diane Keaton's Annie Hall outfits.

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The pre-quel Star Wars movies were a mess, but Natalie Portman did get to wear some memorable costumes.

The mentions of Fellini above made me think of his Casanova

All the outfits in "Breakfast on Pluto" worn by that breathtaking feminine beauty, Miss Cillian Murphy.

Demi Moore's clothes in Indecent Proposal were great

I love you homos!

Berenice Marlohe's Skyfall femme fatale Severine gets one of the cruelest treatments in the Bond films, but the dresses she wears are some of the best.

60,000 hand-applied crystals on the black number.

^

I liked all of Oblivious' costumes in XANADU: the white fringy cowgirl, the Betty Grable tap dance number, the WWII WAC uniform, her satin "Xanadu" jacket...and the costumes for that big number with the Tubes where the two groups mesh were terrific.

Kim Novak and Liz Taylor as two has-been Hollywood rivals in The Mirror Crack'd.

It's like Easter exploded all over them.

Marlene Dietrich's top hat and tuxedo in "Morroco'

Diana Ross's yellow dress and hat in "Lady Sings The Blues"

The costumes in Franco Zeffirelli's version of "Romeo and Juliet"

The costumes in Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon"

The costumes in "Some Like It Hot"

Liza Minnelli's costume from the "Mein Herr" number in "Cabaret:

R317

Interestingly, I believe Brooks confessed she did not have a particular style sense, herself. But when she was an unemployed dancer in New York, she became friends with Barbara Bennet, who was from a wealthy theater family and whose sisters were the stylish Constance and Joan.

After studying them, she went to where they shopped and got a crystal embelished evening dress, then went to their hair stylist and got her hair cut short.

And she was on her way....

The recent version of Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley had some jarring effects of distanciation. But damn if the costumes weren't lovely.

Louise Brooks, who came from Kansas, came to New York to be a dancer. She had no fashion sense, so she claimed to get information on the subject from people she said knew about what what wear: sales ladies. She said:

"My dress problem had become acute. I couldn't trust ordinary salesgirls and the clothes that suited the slim, long legged Bennetts looked dreadful on my short, dancer's body. One night, I saw in a theater program a photograph of Marilyn Miller, the Ziegfield star, posed in a stunning evening gown from Milgrim, a fashionable storet hen on Broadway at Seventy-fourth Street. The next morning, I took $500 in cash to Milgrim's and handed it to Miss Rita, a salesgirl from the Bronx, who had never before been exposed to to such a straightforward confession of ignorance in dress. Neither she nor I could guess that in 1926 my photograph would advertise Milgrim in theater programs, but she did sense an extraordinary intensity in one who appeared to be a chorus girl with a windfall. She studied my face, my figure, my movements closely, while I looked at the models showing evening clothes. After I had seen them all, she selected for me an evening gown of white crystal bugle beads and a silver cloth evening coat with a white fox collar. When I came for my first fitting, I met an exuberant Italian woman, who, because I had small, firm breasts, slashed by evening gowns almost to the naval. My back she left bare. Sitting at a restaurant or nightclub table, I was a nearly naked sight to behold."

I always thought Brook's very low cut dresses (she also wore dance costumes that left her nearly topless) were a mistake. She didn't have "small, firm breasts"; she barely had any tits at all. And those severely low cut dresses only emphasized that she didn't have much of a chest. She didn't have a great figure. She was pear-shaped, with wide hips and plump thighs, and as it's been stated, tiny tits. Still, she became a fashionable figure in her day. But it was her face that extraordinary, not her body.

R317 Another tidbit about Louise Brooks, clothes-wise, having to do with PANDORA'S BOX (1929)

SPOILER

At the end of the movie, the character of Lulu has slipped down the rungs to become an impoverished street walker. To make Brooks feel what Lulu had lost, the director asked for Brooks' favorite suit from her personal wardrobe (a very expensive knit number). He aged, stained and tore it for her to wear in the scene. Brooks said it did indeed make her feel very sad to wear something precious that was now ruined, and brought her fully into the scene. At the same time, he had Brooks dance to jazz records offscreen between shots, to bring up the pitiful quality of the character having to rouse a hopeful survivor's bouyancy. Then, that hope ultimately gets smashed in the scene, too [bold]: ([/bold]

Isabella Rossellini, Death Becomes Her

An interesting thing I read about costuming in the silent era is that D.W. Griffith had all of his actors choose or supply their own costumes (unless it was an army uniform or something.) This doesn't help with a film's overall production design, but it IS a very interesting approach to helping a good actor physically express their character. They have built the character's interior life, and there's a sort of unity to having them then select this imaginary person's exterior life, as well.

Gish said that when she and her sister were traveling Europe, they'd keep their eye out for older wardrobe pieces they could use with Griffith, because sometimes he cast them in historical stories. They looked and felt different from what a designer would recreate.

When Gish later made [italic]La Boheme[/italic] at MGM, she pissed off costume designer Erté by saying all the clothes looked too new. She pointed out her character lived in a garret, and was very poor. He said "I'll have you know this is cheap calico!" and she said, "Yes, but it will look like a nice, new dress onscreen."

Gish had at least some of her costumes redone, using old, worn silk, which would move in a more fragile, limper manner.

[quote]R334 Isabella Rossellini, Death Becomes Her

Fun Fact: In some of the nude and rear shots in DEATH BECOMES HER, they used Catherine Bell (who was later in the TV show JAG) because Rosellini doesn't have a particularly shapely body.

I read somewhere that in 1937 Jean Harlow was buried in a gown she wore in [italic]Libeled Lady,[/italic] which she'd filmed the year before.

I wonder if it was the wedding dress. Without the veil etc., it would be appropriate.

[quote] She didn't have "small, firm breasts"; she barely had any tits at all.

In Louise's defense I'd argue she had perfectly nice and normal breasts for her frame. For two generations Dow-Corning has seriously messed with men's understanding of what is large and small.

R337, that nude isn't Louise Brooks. Same haircut, but rounder face and lighter eyes.

I think this is Louise herself, the resolution isn't great but the dark eyes do look right. She wasn't shy, was she.

Louise Brooks, sweater girl

I think this is how she would have looked in her nudes from 1925. So you would match photos against this....unless she did several sittings.

R335, up to some time in the early 20th century, actors provided their own costumes at most theaters. Old comments describe historical plays where the leading actors had spectacular or accurate costumes, while the bit players were wearing something totally modern or inappropriate because they couldn't afford their own toga.

That was actually a serious economic barrier to young actors starting out, costumes could be expensive so those who didn't have wealthy families couldn't break into the business unless some powerful patron or sugar daddy bought them costumes. Same for moving from bit parts to leading roles, being able to afford a decent costume was definitely good for an actor's career. I wonder how many early filmmakers also had the actors bring their own costumes, god knows filmmaking was a low-budget affair when Griffith and Gish started out.

Re: R341

Therefor, maybe this one... (perhaps longe tulle scarves was the theme) (speaking of costumes

R317, Bitch stole my look!

Divine decadence.

Louise's short, bottom-heavy, flat-chested figure was considered ideal in the 1920s. Lucky girl to have been the age she was! Nowadays figures like hers are considered a disability.

Anyway! You want movie costumes? Here's a movie costume! La Liz as Cleopatra in the most insane getup in the movie!

Uggh. I detest that whole CLEOPATRA mess. It's just all such a wreck : (

The poster is better than the entire movie!

I like this sparkly jacket Rita Hayworth wears in Gilda.

[quote]And, of course, from Saturday Night Fever, that iconic reverse tux style white suit with a black shirt, and the classic 70s Halston-inspired dress.

The polyester off the rack suit was auctioned for charity by Paramount Pictures and was bought by critic Gene Siskel . At the auction, the suit was inscribed by John Travolta on the interior lining with the words ‘To Gene, so here’s to a classic, your friend, John Travolta.’ After Siskel passed away in 1995, it was then auctioned again.

Audrey Hepburn's attire she wears for a secret assignation with Peter O'Toole in How to Steal a Million.

She looks like she's dressed for a superhero funeral.

These shots of a doll show off the outfit better than any of the stills.

More eyewear: Doris Day in Caprice.

Also, please note that her outfit is coordinated with the tent canopy, right down to the white gloves.

Audrey Hepburn, Two for the Road

My phone isn't allowing me to post pictures, but Hedy LaMarr as Delilah in Samson & Delilah. There were two costumes in particular that were stunning. The last one in the final scenes, a peacock blue, and the outfit she wore at the oasis when she set out to seduce and capture Samson for the king or WTF ever he was. George Sanders. It had jewel tones of purple.

r353, meet r218.

Here's an entry on all of Hepburn's outfits in Two for the Road.

Part Two from above.

DL should appreciate Albert Finney's stance in the opening shot.

Sometimes the best costume is no costume

The only thing I really liked about Two for the Road was Audrey Hepburn's haircut. I wanted it.

Brad Davis in Querelle.

This is the same housecoat I have. Except mine is tattered and soiled.....

Jane Fonda's red gown in "Julia."

R349, I love that Gene Siskel ended up with the suit. It was his favorite movie. Roger Ebert wrote this really great piece on Siskel's relationship with the film.

For R354:

Here's a view of it with the cape:

Memo to R346: I wore it better.

R240, I loved the costumes in that movie. And wasn't there some kind of fight between Faye Dunaway and Racquel Welch over whose costumes were allowed to show more cleavage? Not sure who won that fight.

You wore the rug you rode into town with better Claudette!

[quote] That green skirt worn by Cyd Charisse in It's Always Fair Weather and referenced by [R106] is indeed to die for.

[quote] If you watch carefully, you'll see there are 2 versions, one for her big dance number in in the boxing ring Baby, You Knock Me Out, which has the highly unusual and inventive back pleat to allow for all sorts of high kicks, and one for the non-dance scenes, which is the more conventional pencil skirt of the early 1950s.

I remember seeing something similar when Cyd Charisse dances with Fred Astaire in "Silk Stockings" in the jazzy version of "All of You". At first, her skirt, has a single pleat down the front, but as the pair move to a different setting, at the 0:30 mark, Cyd's skirt, still with the same center front pleat, is now a split skirt (also known as culottes). There is a brief glimpse as they jump backward onto the platform at the 0:30 mark. After that bit, it's back to the skirt again. Until the 2:40 mark where once again it is the split skirt which she wears until the number ends. There are clear cuts in the film at each point, and particularly at 2:40 and beyond, Cyd is doing some very high kicks directly into the camera. You can clearly see the split skirt.

I remember when I first saw this, I had to watch the number more than once to confirm what I thought I was seeing.

Today they would just give Cyd red undies and call it a day.

This thread is divine. Another Cyd Charisse tribute... that scarf.

Credit where it's due - all of the costumes for Singin' in the Rain, male or female, are exquisite. Walter Plunkett deserves to be worshipped. Look him up.

No r370........

haahhaa [370] so whattabout this then

"I read somewhere that in 1937 Jean Harlow was buried in a gown she wore in Libeled Lady, which she'd filmed the year before."

Harlow was interred in a full wig and wearing a pink negligee (designed by Dolly Tree) that she wore in her last film, "Saratoga, with white sandals on her feet. Her mother picked that for her to wear for her Eternal Rest, but it was an odd choice. A white dress would have been more appropriate. White was Harlow's signature color. When Barbara Brown, Harlow's friend and stand-in, observed her friend lying in her casket she said the first thing she thought was that is was strange she was wearing pink (Harlow never wore pink). Then she fainted from grief.

From comic to screen: Barbarella.

Sextastic Ugo Tognazzi in Barbarella, covered in fur. Then when he strips down, he's almost as hairy underneath.

I saw it a couple of summers ago at a movie-at-the-park event. His hairy naked body drews laughs from the audience in my surroundings, but it drew a boner from me.

speaking of Barbarella

Moss Mabry designed a nice wardrobe of costumes for Virna Lisi to wear in HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE. The Grecian Goddess inspired white cocktail dress with simple belt looked great on her.

I can't believe there's been no mention of Auntie Mame. There were a dozen or so fab looks but none better than the final party look.

R374 Thank you

I thought that claim was a little odd, as Harlow's kidney failure had made her puffy and gain water weight, and how would she fit into a dress from the year before? Especially since she tended to wear them fairly tight.

R374 Speaking of Jean Harlow, how horrible is the Carroll Baker version of HARLOW?!?!?!? That is a film desperately in need of a personality...ANY personality! It is so incredibly fake and bland. I love Baker, but she's woefully flat and boring in it, too. And I know this is tandemount to sacrilege to say, but Edith Head's costumes in it aren't even that swell.

THIS is what you put on "Jean Harlow"...what looks to be a simple, tasteful dinner dress?

Amazingly, even the cheapjack rival version with Carol Lynley has more life in it!

The 60s pointed stilettos ruin how hard they were trying for 1930s Hollywood.

I don't quite grasp how you can make a boring film about Jean Harlow's life (!)

The rival version, clothes by future DYNASTY designer Nolan Miller

Is there any love for the Irene Sharaff purple Hello, Dolly! dress?

(Don't look at me....)

Whoa, that purple Dolly dress looks like nothing much without the actress in it! Onscreen and in motion it's a glorious thing. Interesting!

More from Jacques Demy's Umbrellas of Cherbourg (that I mistakenly posted in the Rita Moreno thread).

It's not so much about the costume alone but about the costume and the set.

Here's our guy Guy, bathed in a glossy cherry red.

And here's Guy swimming in orange, right down to his love interest.

Everyone's clothing matches their wall paper in that movie.

Speaking of "costume and set" (R388), there's nothing like white morning wear set against a sea of red

This.

Dietrich said that if you really want to stand out, wear

* all white

* all black

* black & white with a strong piece of red

Loved the high fashion '70s designs in Eyes of Laura Mars.

The 1994 version of Little Women had great costumes

Inspired from another thread:

Demi Moore's wardrobe in Flawless, a heist film set in London in the sixties. She wears her clothes with the confidence and ease of a young Joan Crawford, and the period costumes suit her perfectly.

It's really a good film.

Elizabeth Taylor's black cocktail dress from "Butterfield 8"

The remake of Diabolique is much hated, but I find it a hoot, and Sharon Stone's outfits are great.

She's a school teacher, but she's strutting around in borderline couture. At one point early on in the film, she's teaching a math lesson to a group of boys while wearing a black cocktail dress not so far removed from the one Liz has on in r397.

That remake of DIABOLIQUE is terrible, and I LOVE IT. Sharon Stone knew it was camp and went for it.

and now for something completely different

I can't get the pic to load but Julianne Moore's (and the whole cast, really) in Far From Heaven is divine. And it was a really good movie. Dennis Quaid is the shit.

For r401

Barbara goes Burlesque via Edie.....

Ned Beatty's silky drawers in Deliverance.

I always liked this Barbara STanwyck costume from "Ball of Fire".

Not only does it move beautifully, and sparkle so brilliantly that it catches the eye without beneit of color, and is appropriately vulgar for the character... but it also does a wonderful job of disguising Stanwyck's short legs and low ass.

The Stepford Wives

Everything Lana Turner wore in "Imitation of Life."

Farrah takes a moment to air out her innerspace on SATURN 3

Donna Summer looked impossibly beautiful in Thank God It's Friday.

The late seventies is often a period held up as a laughingstock for fashion, but if you can see beyond the polyester, you can find some classic looks that drew a lot from the past, the forties in particular.

R396 Lol at her terrible accent. Even in this trailer.

R398 I thought Diabolique was a lot of fun too.

R410, they had to explain it away - right away - in the film with a back story about her living in the US.

I'm not sure why they decided to let her keep the wobbly accent instead of just making her American.

And only on DL would Diabolique find the love it was denied everywhere else!

I believe this is Sharon Stone's schoolmarm look cited at r398.

R402 Soap Opera Tidbit: Actress on the far left in the FAR FROM HEAVEN pic also played Kelly Rippa's mom on ALL MY CHILDREN.

R409 is correct, there was much more to 70s fashion than the notoriously horrible disco looks that were mocked at the time and still get mocked. The real fashion of the era was simple and sophisticated, typified by the quiet elegance of Halston gowns.

And that is all the thread hijacking I will do for now.

R394 R413 Yes, one article about [italic]Eyes of Laura Mars[/italic] I read said that in its favor, it reminds us not all clothes from the 1970s were horrible.

Belita working it with sultry attitude....

Thanks R402!!

R406

IMO, the outfits from THE STEPFORD WIVES just looked like the typical shit you'd find in an upper middle class housewife's closet in the early 1970s: POLYESTER POLYESTER POLYESTER. The thing about that scene at the end was that they were all wearing picture hats & gloves even, the type of dress then usually reserved for evening or a formal affair; gloves were long out by 1974 except for maybe a tea, wedding, or women over 90. Ridiculous for grocery shopping but the point having been that the husbands wanted them to dress like that apparently.

R88 that's the go-to costume for everyone, but I've always been partial to this black/white ensemble.

R158 except for that mop of '80s hair. British men in 1909/1910 wore their hair shorter, parted, and combed.

R184 yes, Madonna holds the record for most costume changes in a single film, with 85. Previously, Elizabeth Taylor held the record for CLEOPATRA, in which she had 65 costumes.

Incidentally, I was very surprised when neither EVITA nor 101 DALMATIANS were Oscar-nominated for their costumes that year. I thought they were exquisite. Instead, THE ENGLISH PATIENT's boring ensembles won out.

R207 that was inspired by an actual outfit. It's my favorite in the film, too.

[quote]ALL the costumes in "The Wizard of Oz" were perfect for the movie. Adrian should have won an Academy Award for them, but there was no Oscar for costume design back then.

R145 I don't think OZ would've stood a chance against GWTW's costumes.

Has the insane peacock gown from DeMille's "Samson and Delilah" been posted yet?

It was on a local station yesterday, and it's a terrible movie, but I love it for the terrible acting and the endless parade of fantastic costumes.

"Samson and Delilah" even gives Datalounge Icon Angela Lansbury a few insane fantasy-Assyrian outfits!

Has she ever looked more glamorous?

And here's Lana Turner wearing a whole galaxy of stars in the 1940s "Ziegfeld Girl". Another girl wore a school of tropical fish, I'm trying to find another picture.

R425 I'm surprised they let her wear that revealing outfit in 1940. Over ten years later, they had to change Marilyn's original gown for "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" because it showed too much skin.

for a second I thought HBC was Johnny Depp in r67

The costumes in ZIEGFELD GIRL are gorgeous. Every single one in that "You Stepped Out of a Dream" number is AWESOME. There's one made of big puffy white balls, and yes, some of them are quite revealing.

R418 the original costume sketch by Theadora Van Runkle:

R429 thanks! But does it say "fagotted blouse" in the inscription? Never heard of that term before.

In her autobiography, Lana Turner said she hated the script for THE PRODIGAL (1955) and didn't want to do it. Frustrated, she reportedly cut huge sections of her costume away, herself, saying, "Well, if I'm supposed to play this temptress, at least I should look sexy."

And here's Hedy Lamarr in HER elaborate costume from "Ziegfeld Girl", which has the most insane costumes of any black and white film ever made.

She once said "Any girl can be glamorous, all she has to do is stand still and look stupid". Wrong, honey, it doesn't work for anyone but you.

I believe Hedy's has been discussed in this thread, previously.

The great Adrian did the spectacular costumes for "Ziegfield Girl." When he left MGM he took most of its glamour with him.

R430 - fagotted seam - two fabric panels are joined together with a ‘gap’ in between them, either using a sheer panel or displaying some fancy needlework

SWAMPY!

What are you made up for, The Seeing Eye?

"Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" which were done for no money by Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel. She is the one who wore the credit card dress when they won the Oscar.

R429 I believe this outfit/beret inspired that costume, except the suit jacket and blouse colors are reversed.

Nicole Kidman's gowns in "The Golden Compass" - Here's one of my more favorite ones. Exquisite.

Someone already posted this I'm sure. But it bears repeating. I have always loved it!

Rhett forced her to wear it because she was an adultress and a whoor!! So it's red for her!!!

One of the most famous and expensive costumes ever made -

Desiree's red gown from "A Little Night Music." It was designed originally for the Broadway production. But it's stunning.

In the novel Rhett tells Scarlett before they go to Ashley's birthday party: "Wear that. No modest, matronly dove grays and lilacs tonight. Your flag must be nailed to the mast, for obviously you'd run it down if it wasn't. And plenty of rouge. I'm sure the woman the Pharisees took in adultery didn't look half so pale." "That" is Scarlett's "new jade green, watered silk dress. It was cut low over the bosom and the skirt was draped back over an enormous bustle and on the bustle was a huge bunch of pink velvet roses." Wow. I would like to have been a costume designer come up with a version of THAT dress.

Marlene: The Man’s in the Navy

The only dress I ever remember from Casablanca..

R442 This is my favorite of her costumes...white with blue accents is so pretty, when it'd done right.

R393 Lana Turner wrote in her book that in personal life, she limited herself to evening dresses in black, white or (occassionally) red, too.

R430 R435 In sewing terms, it is also called "bridging. It is not necessarily a seam. It can be where treats are meticulously snipped individually and removed from cloth, in a pattern.

That Bonnie Parker blouse has a crisscross pattern down the front made with this technique.

Like THIS:

^^ THREADS - not "treats"

R443, I never liked that insanely expensive costume much. Yes, it's beautiful as a gown, and lights up the screen with its red and gold sparkles, but she can't dance in the damn thing! It weighs her down and she has to hold up the skirt to show it off and make her legs visible, she can hardly move in it.

No, a good dance costume is on that moves beautifully. Here's another gown made of fur and beading, which both allows her freedom of movement and moves well itself when she dances, and it even looks nice before she starts dancing.