Favorite costumes in cinema

Unfortunately the silk has degraded and it looks very tatty now. It is a miracle it lasted this long.

R1 And the obvious other one from the same year, 1939. There may be no costume more iconic around the world.

R1 Wallpaper repurposed as clothing

Every single outfit worn by Cate Blanchett in the Elizabeth movies. They are gorgeous and she turns them into art.

Zeffirelli's Rome and Juliet . . .

Coppola's Bram's Stoker's Dracula . . .

I am not a Star Wars fan at all, but I appreciate this costume. Everything else I can think of for “best costume” is either period royalty wear or else superhero shit and I refuse to post superhero shit because I am over it.

Tarzan.

I like Rita's sparkly coat in Gilda.

‘Gilda, are you decent?’

Cary Grant’s outfit is memorable, even if it’s not “great.”

I have always loved this one from Evil Under the Sun. The whole scene where she comes down the stairs and everyone is gobsmacked by her appearance is fabulous.

R12 I haaaaaaaaate those scenes were a woman slowly descends a staircase. What the hell is supposed to be so magical about staircases in movies? It just confounds me every time.

Holly Golightly’s long Givenchy gown and pearl choker get all the love, but I always preferred this ensemble.

R13 The staircase is irrelevant to the scene. It's her outfit and her attitude that make it. The poor, mousy put-upon wife is revealed to be a murderous bitch with fabulous taste in clothes.

Audrey's Ascot outfit and her ball gown + hair.

Well, my favorite personal dress is more lovely than what all those harlots wore in moves.

Scarlett's green dress was lovely but her red dress was fabulous.

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Doris Day wore some wonderful dresses. My favorite is the gold-with-fringe she wore in The Thrill Of It All

Grace Kelly- Rear Window

R13 Congrats. You are super gay

. And you have also never taken a film appreciation course.

It's called the "Male Gaze".

This. Edith Head didn't design it to be worn off the shoulders, but it was too loose at the top, and so Bette yanked it down.

This dress was supposed to be green! It was jade green in the novel. R18

New faves. The costumes in the animated carriage ride and music hall sequence in "Mary Poppins Returns" that are colored and outlined to blend the live actors more fully into the animated setting. Not that they are the most beautiful costumed ever. I appreciate the effort and imagination.

This

Grâce Kelly in To Catch A Thief

Again

And again.

Sunglasses in The Matrix completed the look.

So many of those gowns Ginger Rogers wore when she danced with Fred Astaire.

They were mostly designed by the all-but-forgotten Bernard New,man who was head costume deigner at RKO in the 1930s and also head designer for Bergdorf Goodman.

Hanna Schygulla wears a number of incomparable hats in Effi Briest.

R30 I never would have thought of The Matrix but I just watched the first two last week and kept thinking how great his coat looked and how much I would love to wear that as actual clothing.

Grace Kelly ALWAYS looked like a model, and I don't want to be thinking about a gown while I'm watching a scene play out. She must not have been much of a model because it always looks like the clothes are wearing her.

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) is plum full of gorgeous finery.

Keira Knightley's green dress in Atonement

Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice in the finale of Strictly Ballroom

The exhibition of costumes and weapons from LotR was phenomenal.

Essential!

I quite agree - white dresses are boring.

"This dress was supposed to be green! It was jade green in the novel."

The dress Scarlett wore to Ashley's birthday party (which was a much livelier affair than in the movie, a big shindig with lots of guests) in the novel was described as "her new jade green watered silk dress." It was "cut low over the bosom and the skirt was draped back an enormous bustle and on the bustle was a huge bunch of pink velvet roses." Sounds like quite a dress. I would have loved to have seen a a version of it in the movie. But they had her wear a red dress in the movie, I suppose to make her look more like a woman who had engaged in adultery, even though in the novel Scarlett never wears red. Green is her color and she wears it whenever possible. In the novel it's Rhett who chooses the green dress for Scarlet to wear at the party. He obviously thinks it's a sexy dress because he tells her (he's found out about her being seen in Ashley's arms): "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."

Her Majesty

THESE are the most iconic costumes in the history of film!!!

I'm quite serious about that. Forty years after they were created, if you see this look on a doll or sticker or dog toy, you instantly know what it is.

I've loved this costume, from the 1958 Ingrid Bergman / Cary Grant move "Indiscreet," since I first saw it as a child.

Peau d'Âne wins this thread.

As a kid I thought Jane and Michael Banks' Jolly Holiday costumes in Mary Poppins were the limit!

[quote] There may be no costume more iconic around the world.

***ahem***

Dame Judi's peacock dress Shakespeare in Love

[quote] She must not have been much of a model because it always looks like the clothes are wearing her.

Obvioushly she washn't wearing the clothing from my collection!

THEY don't wear YOU--YOU wear THEM!

Michelle Pfeiffer's beautiful red dress, designed by Sandy Powell, from "The Age of Innocence."

Liza rocking purple for the title song in Cabaret.

La Glenn in "Dangerous Liaisons"

Pfeiffer again, also in "Dangerous Liaisons"

All of Charles Busch's costumes in "Die Mommie Die"

Jennifer Lopez The Cell

Miranda Richardon (C) and Emily Blunt (R), "The Young Victoria"

Iconic nightwear

How about...?

Hedy Lamarr in her peacock dress from Samson and Delilah.

June Allyson Good News

That red Jezebel dress was sensational in context, of course, even in b&w, but perhaps because it was a b&w film, Orry-Kelly had to do something far more daring and so he made it a STRAPLESS gown, which was unheard of in mid-19th century fashion.

It would have been the equivalent back then of wearing one's corset with no dress over it.

Even in 1938 when the film was made, strapless dresses were very daring and not very common.

This is a fun thread. Lots of inspired choices.

R41, or anybody else can you explain why Rhett Butler forces his wife to wear a risqué gown and make up at the party ? Is he pettily taking revenge on her for having been in Ashley's arms or does he want her not to act like she is guilty in order to save the family 's reputation for their daughter ?

Bette Davis's sloping shoulders were not meant to be displayed in a strapless dress. Actually,strapless dresses aren't very flattering on most women. Most women don't have the figure for it.

"Can you explain why Rhett Butler forces his wife to wear a risqué gown and make up at the party ? Is he pettily taking revenge on her for having been in Ashley's arms or does he want her not to act like she is guilty in order to save the family 's reputation for their daughter ?"

He was mad as hell at her and I guess he figured if she was going to act like a slut she might as well look like one.

Pretty much every outfit worn by Julianne Moore in "Far From Heaven"

This

Anything Geneviève Bujold wore in Anne of the 1000 Days.

Thank you R64, but isn't he destroying the respectability he wanted for Bonnie Blue in his fit of rage ? Besides, forcing his wife to look like a slut goign in society where people might condemn her, gee ! Feminism had been invented yet!

R65, oh yes ! Those saturated colors and elegant dresses

Olivia Newton-John in "Grease" (1978)

This

Babs

"isn't he destroying the respectability he wanted for Bonnie Blue in his fit of rage ? Besides, forcing his wife to look like a slut goign in society where people might condemn her, gee ! Feminism had been invented yet!"

He wanted her to face up to what she'd done, to face her accusers. He tells her she's going to the party "if not for your sake, you are going tonight for Bonnie's sake. How can you further ruin her chances?"

Glenn Close's canary yellow dress in Dangerous Liaisons (gorgeous)

Thank you, R72.

Still, this quote :"if not for your sake, you are going tonight for Bonnie's sake. How can you further ruin her chances?"

I must be slow, but... how being publicly identified as a harlot going to help her daughter ?

Paul Newman in prison blues/Cool Hand Luke

Sigourney Weaver’s “Zuul” dress from Ghostbusters.

Couldn’t resist

Jane Fonda’s dress from Klute.

Anna Magnani at the end of The Golden Coach

These are my favorite cinema costumes.

They signal when the fun is about to begin.

Take that bitches!!!

Aunty Entity

Fuck and yes for Scarlett’s red dress. THAT was a cinematic moment.

My favorite dress and look.

Diana Ross's yellow organza outfit in "Lady Sings the Blues". It's the first thing she bought herself with her whore money!

Ran

Pretty much everything Kim Novak (as Madeleine) wears in Vertigo.

Kika

That three piece suit Sean Connery wore in Goldfinger.

Rachel Marron's "Queen of the Night" costume from The Bodyguard. Kinda cheesy I know but lots of fun.

Saw this film as a gayling on the big screen and always wanted Kevin Costner to guard me.

Faye in Chinatown

"I must be slow, but... how being publicly identified as a harlot going to help her daughter ?"

Rhett wanted Scarlett to face the music. He also knew that if she didn't show up at the party everyone would assume the gossip was true. So her showing up at the party was a way of combating it. When she shows up Melanie is warm and welcoming to her and that helps the situation, too. But I think Rhett wanted her to go largely to punish her. The damage was done, and he wanted her to face up to it. He was, understandably, very angry.

Taking the color pink to the next level

1939 The Women (fashion scene)

Judy's tuxedo jacket

Eva Green’s wardrobe in Casino Royale was perfection.

"Tell Mama. Tell Mama all."

Everything Faye Dunaway wears in Bonnie and Clyde...

Rita Hayworth's black dress in "Gilda"

Claudette Colbert's traveling outfit and wedding dress in "It Happened One Night"

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

Liza Minnelli's "Mein Herr" costume in "Cabaret"

The Droogs in "A Clockwork Orange"

Heath Ledger as The Joker in "The Dark Knight"

Jean Harlow's gown in "Dinner at Eight"

Another famous red dress , Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.

Yet another famous red dress; Michelle Pfeffier in The Fabulous Baker Boys...

i have always LOVED this robe worn by Hepburn in Adam's Rib. Was unfortunately too young to buy the real thing from her Sotheby's auction.

Curtain clothes by the governess! Always dreamed of having Julie Andrews come to my home and make me an outfit out of my curtains. Honorable mention to the always elegant Baroness Schraeder.

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Faye in The Four Musketeers

For that matter, Faye in The Thomas Crown Affair

R106 Rene Russo’s black dress in the remake years later.

Anything worn by Norma Shearer in her pre-codes, “Marie Antoinette”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Idiot’s Delight”, and “Escape”. My absolute favorite is “Riptide”.

Travis Banton for Dietrich

I rewatched Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett last night specifically to *see* it thanks to this thread. The visuals are breathtaking throughout. The costumes are gorgeous, and Cate Blanchett was both an extraordinary beauty and an absolute marvel as a performer. If you haven’t seen it in years, rewatch it. Blanchett looks so young but she comes across convincingly as a naive girl who quickly becomes the most self-actualized woman in the world.

All the male costumes in The talented Mr.Ripley.

Especially these R111

Thank you so much R92 !

All the dresses from In the Mood for Love.

R105 Yes! Any of the women's outfits from the Musketeers movie. Faye, Raquel or Geraldine.

Ilsa's opera dress from Mission Impossible: number whatever.

Pretty much everything in Marie Antoinette

Has there ever been a thread on movie hairdos? I didn't have a very large wardrobe.

So many great dresses in GWTW.

I like this black dress from Affair in Trinidad.

Michelle Pfieffer as Catwoman.

Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange costume is a beautiful piece of textile work.

Every costume in Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Even the peasants are practically glowing from all the color they're wearing, and collectively it's so glorious it makes your eyes ache. It's like someone at Warner Brothers said, "We're paying for Technicolor, so fuck it, let's get our money's worth."

Peter Capaldi models his Cardinal Richelieu costume from "The Musketeers."

A good thread on good threads

Another vote for the costumes in Dangerous Liaisons, especially ANYTHING Glenn wore in that movie.

This one stayed with me forever.

One more. Lee Pace's crown (and his entrance and exit on an Irish elk) in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."

I remember New York Magazine had a wonderful article about movie costuming back in the 1970s and used The Three Musketeers as an example oif the power of stars to control their own costumes.

Raquel Welch brought in her own designer (I think it was the uncredited Ron Talsky) and her dresses and hairdos, as a result, are strictly no-period fairy tale generically sexy heroine in style.

Faye Dunaway's costumes were designed by the film's designer Yvonne Blake but the silhouette was streamlined and softened from the classic Vermeer-style of dress.

Geraldine Chaplin's look was perfectly authentic to the period - thick high waist, wide balloon sleeves and frizzy hairdo.

Sting's flying underpants in Dune

So much of SATC’s costuming was nightmarish, but I did adore this dress:

Marc Singer as The Beastmaster

Adrian was the greatest most consistent designer in films and his greatest work was for 1938’s “Marie Antoinette”. It’s a pity that it wasn’t filmed in color.

Bea Arthur in Mame.

Roz Russell Had at least a dozen stunners in Auntie Mame. I love the lame and acid green party pajamas piled with some many diamonds she can barely lift her arms.

I don’t know what it is about this one that draws my attention.

Surprised no one has posted this yet.

Every Outfit Shelley Long Wears in Troop Beverly Hills, Ranked (!!!)

R136 That has it's own thread somewhere.

I loved this dress in Ivanhoe. Liz looked ethereal.

Excalibur

Barbra's tarantula fur from Funny Lady.

Oliver's Henry V

Ivy St. Helier & Renee Asherson

Angela Bassett as the Queen in "Black Panther":

Melanie Griffith

Something Wild

Everything Myrna Loy wore as Nora Charles.

Orlando: All that glitters is gold!

So many of these costumes tend to be of actors dressed as royals. I guess those are the ones we think of the most on topics like this.

You want everyday, non-royal costumes, R147?

Here's Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in "The Band Wagon", wandering into a city park wearing ordinary everyday 1950s street clothes. But when Cyd begins to dance, her everyday white skirt begins to waft like an angel's heavenly robe! She had quite a few costumes like that, clothes that looked ordinary, until she began to dance in them.

Every outfit in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The costumes (and hair and makeup) for Bette Davis in Now, Voyager.

New York uniforms for over 20 years

I'm sure it's the cape, R135...

R149 Gary is sexy af in that suit. I’ll add Inara in Serenity where the ‘verse is heavily influenced by Chinese culture.

Now THIS is an outfit

Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina.. all her clothes.

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Marlon Brando in The Wild One.

Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde..

Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus.

Faye Dunaway in Chinatown

R148 Anything Cyd Charisse ever wore, but especially this green dress from American in Paris.

Maria Schneider's Coat and hat in Last Tango in Paris. The flowers are more than a bit tacky but they photograph beautifully and she paired those with some gorgeous boots.

The Last Emperor, the Empress Dowager's costume is amazing, the hair, the headpiece and the rows of pearls. A surreal scene.

What’s more memorable than Frankerfurter’s outfit in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

R131, he got that from Dietrich, who wore it in "Rancho Notorious" (along with a blouse and vest).

Nice to see Faye get some love in this thread.

Only she could credibly rock this gown in the Towering Inferno -- and I particularly love it in b/w.

Yes, R154, but getting on the subway is a bitch.

R161, that’s from “Singin’ in the Rain”

R168 You're right, mybad. Cyd Charise's delicious, "Kelly" green (pun not intended) dress designed to evoke the 1920's flapper era, is from "Singin' in the Rain" (1952).

Damn, those legs. The green outfit is awesome, but in my next life, I want to be reincarnated in the body of Cyd Charriss.

Designing clothes for dancers can be tough because you don't want them to get in the way or outshine the performer.

Here's another one for Faye. Steve McQueen, too... both very chic and stylish in late 60's movie, The Thomas Crown Affair.

re Astaire and Rogers, I like this dark dress from Swing Time.

Catherine Deneuve in YSL for Belle de Jour. The S&M coat by the beach and her last look were amazing. The latter seems to have served as inspiration for Rosamund Pike's last look in Gone Girl, in both movies the outfit signals a return to domesticity after their descent into madness.

R169, Tony Martin, Cyd's husband said he knew whether Cyd had been dancing at the studio with Astaire or Kelly. If Kelly, she'd be black and blue.

Audrey Hepburn's Winged Victory dress in "Funny Face"

"I can't stop. Take the picture. Take the PICTURE!"

Alice Krige

I loved Maria’s dress as a kid. Just a ribbon.

The Orry-Kelly simple, elegant and timeless white suit Bergman wears in Casablanca

Liz Taylor in her white slip in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is pretty iconic

Eva Marie Sanit in North by Northwest

Also EMS -- the orange suit and wrap she wears in the finale

Love her finale in the suit- ‘76 Star is Born

10-year-old me was obsessed with Whitney’s ‘Queen of the Night’ look in ‘The Bodyguard.’

Everything in this film:

This and every costume Natalie Wood wore on the"Gypsy" runway

Are we talking about period movie costumes?

Jaclyn smith's costumes in "The Users" were beautiful and elegant in a pretty tacky era..

Diva Plavalaguna. Also Ruby Rod was fun and Lilu’s bandage bikini, not best - but iconic

Eva Green as Vanessa Ives, Penny Dreadful

Then there's this....

Sex and the City

All the costumes in Luchino Visconti's "Death in Venice".

All the costumes in Kurosawa's visual feast, Ran (1985)...

WW1 era Diana Prince.

Evil Uhura from Mirror, Mirror

Well I Never in All My Life!

Scoop-necked denim smock with a lemon striped pullover: she is making a dramatic statement before she even opens her mouth.

The late, great Eiko Ishioka's work in THE FALL.

The Robot Maria in Metropolis.

Fellini Satyricon

Michèle Morgan Quai des Brumes Trenchcoat and béret by Gabrielle Chanel Love the Dunaway 's gown in Bonnie and Clyde

Mélanie Thierry in La princesse de Montpensier

Lucy's Mame is as bad as its reputation but Theodora van Runckle's costumes were deliciously over the top and outrageous.

Orry Kelly's costumes for both the stage and screen versions of Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russell were likewise fantastic but the stage version had a costume joke the censors didn't allow in the film version. In the scene following Beau's death, Mame is seen wearing all black but at the very end she turns around to show the audience that her "mourning dress" is backless. Below is the film version. Onstage, the back of the dress was cut so low it showed the top of Russell's butt crack, which always got a huge audience gasp and prolonged laughter.

^ Sorry, Theadora van Runkle, not Runckle.

Orry Kelly also designed Russell's clothes for the first film version of Gypsy. Inexplicably I have always been fascinated by Russell's black and white Oxford spectator pumps in Rose's Turn.

the hat Audrey Hepburn borrows in Funny Face

Barry Lyndon - for this hat alone

This Hercules =

When I was a kid in the 80's, I loved the costumes, even the everyday clothes that the characters wore, in An American In Paris. Who knows why.

Faye in Bonnie and Clyde

Another fro Bonnie and Clyde

The Graduate

Another Edith Head creation on Grace Kelly in Rear Window

Edith Head was very square and blah.

In the ridiculous camp mess "Gods of Egypt", Chadwick "Black Panther" Boseman wears this lovely beaded evening gown with matching beaded cap... and multiplies himself hundreds of times.

How can you not love a film that gives you hundreds of Black Panthers wearing lovely beaded formal drag?

Ilsa Lund's (Ingrid Bergman) severe two piece white long skirt suit is my all-time favorite design in film. It's perfect less - is - more elegance.

To add to the context for Scarlett's gown for Ashley's party:

Scarlett, out of sheer embarrassment and fear of being publicly humiliated because of being found in Ashley's arms ( and it truly was innocent) tells Rhett she won't attend the party. He is silent for a while and then tells her in a "biting drawl", "What a white-livered cowardly little bitch you are".

He goes on to say, "While I may endure a trollop for a wife, I won't endure a coward" and he forces her to get dressed to attend the party. That when he picks out her dress as r41 points out. She tries to explain what happened with Ashley and he tells her "You have an eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the theatre". When they arrive at the party he tells her "Get out. I want to see the lions eat you."

He knows that if she doesn't show her face that night, Bonnie's social standing is forever in peril. That's the reason for his remark about ruining Bonnie's chances.

I'm not a fan of the film because the book is so much richer.

Sephora's (Yvonne de Carlo) simple, toga-like white dress in The Ten Commandments...

... and Moses's (Charlton Heston's) saffron headwrap in a later scene...

Grace in A View to a Kill

Iconic

It's not a classic by any means, but the silver dress that Raquel Welch wore in "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" is stnning in an 80s sort of way. No-one could wear a dress like that and make it look like that.

The entire wardrobe by Travilla in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Another vote for Grace Kelly in Rear Window

Ona Munson as Fancy Lady, Belle Watling, in Gone With the Wind. I particularly love the beaded thing she's wearing in her hair.

The beaded thing in Belle's hair:

R65 She was pregnant and the costume designer had to draw shadows over the fabric on set to hide the bump! Per Christine Vachon's book if memory serves.

I think "the beaded thing in Belle's hair" is two combs. Two tasteless combs.

R95 initially designed for a number that got cut from Easter Parade, ended up in Summer Stock instead. Both directed by Chuck Walters

Yes but they are delectably garish, R229. Good costumes convey the character of their wearer. GWTW must have been a fun movie to costume.

Another vote for In the Mood for Love. Those dresses are perfection.

Thank you R218 - Della.

It makes sense but it still shows feminism had not reached its peak yet. Of course.

You're welcome, r233.

One crucial detail I left out is that Rhett knows from the onset; from being told by Archie that Archie saw Scarlett in Ashley's arms, that it's innocent. Not because he believes that Scarlett wouldn't commit adultery but because he knows Ashley wouldn't commit adultery.

Some urge that the novel "GWTW" shouldn't be read because of its approval, argument for, and defense of slavery and racism. Indeed, that's exactly what Mitchell does set forth in GWTW, however, I would argue that its precisely for those reasons that it should be read. Mitchell, in telling her story,explicates the ugly attitudes, beliefs and power structure of race, family and society that explain why race relations are still the way they are in 2019.

r214, did you know that The Graduate was designed by Patricia Zipprodt, who was far more accomplished as a theater designer? Among her credits on Broadway were the orifinal productions of Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Pippin Mack and Mabel and Chicago.

Besides The Graduate (she had just previously worked on Broadway with Mike Nichols and Anne Bancroft on a revival of The Little Foxes), her other big film credit was 1776, which she had also designed on Broadway. She much preferred designing for theater than film.

Fun fact: I believe if you look closely you'll note that most of Mrs. Robinson's costumes (including her lingerie) have an element of predatory animal prints.

JT in SNL

Who's Archie?

Archie was an book only character. An ex-convict who murdered his wife but was released to fight for the Confederacy at the siege of Atlanta. He is taken in by Melanie, and guards Scarlett when she rides her coach to her mills. Eventually his hatred of Scarlett causes Melanie to toss him out.

Meryl's costumes in "Out of Africa":

Everything from Angels And Insects

Sophia's gold dress in Houseboat

French Empire in The Duchess Of Langeais(Ne Touchez Pas La Hache)

This bare midriff gown in Ava Gardner in The Killers was a few decades ahead of its time.

Hedy Lamarr from Ziegfeld Girl

"Who's Archie?"

Archie is one of several interesting personalities left out of the movie version of GWTW. He's quite a character; an unrepentant killer (he killed his cheating wife), a brave soldier, a totally menacing, scary-looking man, and yet he's devoted to Melanie and appears to love her. He's the one who informs Rhett about Scarlett being in Ashley's arms (he sees it himself, along with INdia and Mrs. Elsing) . He goes to Melanie and tells her about Scarlett and Ashley, but Melanie, who is totally blind to what's going on between Scarlett and her husband, chews him out and throws him out of her house. He leaves town and that's the last that's heard of him. Too bad. He was quite a memorable character.

The single most iconic movie costume of all time!!!

Seriously, there have been eight or nine actors involved in playing the actual character. In this case, the costume IS the iconic character, as well as being instantly memorable for decades.

Another vote for "Elizabeth" (Cate was robbed, that stupid Weinstein ho Goop won), "Orlando", and Coppola's "Marie Antoinette". Yes, they are all period.

All of Gaultier's work in "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover", "Fifth Element", and "City of Lost Children".

All of Eiko's work: "Coppola's Dracula", "The Cell", and "The Fall"'

However, I do love the costumes in the shitty, "Chronicles of Riddick":

Agree with R240, the costumes in Angels and Insects are brilliant (and buggy).

Everything Michelle Pfeiffer wears in Cheri (this film deserves more love), Helena Bonham Carter's costumes in Wings of a Dove (yeah, same period as Cheri, I like me some Paul Poirot.)--Sandy Powell at work. Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair

All the costumes in, "Madam Satan"!

Michael Myers.

Madonna in "Evita" (1996)

If R192 can post Annie Hall, then there would have to be this

Dammit, here's, "Madam Satan".

All the costumes in, "Moulin Rouge!", but I loved the simplicity of this:

Oooh, I've never seen that before, r255. Love it.

All the men's costumes on, "Boardwalk Empire". The fabrics, patterns and textures. I wish men would dress like this again:

The only western I've ever liked. All cowboys should look like this:

I can't find the original hair fringe dress (just the broadway ones), but this is iconic:

Not cinema, but I don't care. Hannibal (TV series).

No love for the white gown and turban/cloche that Ms Streisand wears in "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"?

Some of my faves have already been mentioned. I feel it's only fair(and probably easier) to rank them in tiers, not just numerically.

"Last Year at Marienbad." -Chanel

Milla Jovovich Fifth Element

Thanks for reminding me about Angels and Insects - I recall it revolved around Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection with application to human behaviour.

Parker Posey in Party Girl. Just one of several at the link...

James in velvet with cravat. I’d like a whole post on cravats and neckwear

To introduce a little fantasy into this thread, I love the thorny, articulated, plate armour given to the forces of Sauron in the Lord of the Rings films, owing more to the chitin exoskeletons of beetles and crustaceans than anything man-made.

Ask any straight man to name an iconic movie costume... and he'll probably say "Slave Leia!".

[quote] R214, did you know that The Graduate was designed by Patricia Zipprodt, who was far more accomplished as a theater designer? Among her credits on Broadway were the orifinal productions of Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Pippin Mack and Mabel and Chicago.

No I didn't know that. Interesting. I did notice when I was looking for pics from the movie that Bancroft wore a lot of leopard prints. I love the whole look of the film -- the clothes, the interiors, the cars, etc. and I especially liked Bancroft's performance. She was as cool as a cucumber. After she had been intimate with Hoffman's character, she comes over to his parents' house with her husband and she's not the least bit nervous or awkward in his presence.

Not only is the psychedelic tunic top that Benjamin's mother wears classic 1960's, it serves to heighten the sense of confusion and disconnectedness between the generations so expertly portrayed in this kitchen scene from The Graduate.

I always remember the gowns in Gosford park, particularly Kirstin Scott Thomas'. They were just so beautiful.

Oops, urg I suck at posting links. I also really liked to costumes in the movie Oklahoma. Loved Shirley Jones' country dresses.

THAT'S NOT THE LAURIE I REMEMBER!!!

Fanny and Alexander, the film by Ingmar Bergman, won the Oscar for best costuming and sets (I think) in its year. The Victorian outfits were pretty amazing.

Bookend to above.....

The men’s bathing suits in “Anyone Here for Love?” from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”.

Perfection in minimalism.

Kim Evenson,1985 Porky's Revenge

HS graduation

My favorite costume design in The Sound of Music.

R277 The colors are maddeningly dull and subdued in Thoroughly Modern Millie for the 60's looking back on the 20s. Why they picked Jean Louis, known for his restrained, classic styles, is anyone's guess. But something bursts through when he's working in black and white.

Judy never looked better! (I guess the dress is periwinkle?)

Speaking of R&H, also loved the dresses in State Fair.

This one too

Kristen Wiig in Zoolander 2.

For you, R263.

Sublime

I've always liked the color combination in this number, r282.

ANYTHING Carmen wore.

God, Rhett was such a prick. He's down at the whorehouse fucking Belle every night, but heaven forfend Scarlett should hug another man. (Ashley and Scarlett weren't even romantically involved in that scene, just two old friends reminiscing about a world they'd lost.)

Yes, Scarlett kicked him out of the marital bed, partly out of fear of childbirth and partly because of Ashley. She was in love with Ashley, but Rhett knew that when he married her. He knew from almost the first moment they met, when he was a 32-year-old man perving on a 16-year-old girl. If the Ashley thing bothered him so badly, he never should have proposed.

Scarlett's big mistake wasn't in not realizing she loved Rhett, but in ever loving him to begin with. He was a horrible, horrible person.

Topsy-Turvy has fantastic costumes.

Every costume Ann Reinking has ever worn...

Carmen Miranda's costumes were always unique. No one else could have worn them. If that's not "iconic," I don't know what is!

R283, that gown from "A Star is Born" is gray, no periwinkle, and I hate it. Not because it's unattractive, but because Judy's wearing a whalebone corset underneath it, and it looks painful (and I hate her hairdo). She didn't have the waist for New Look gowns at that point, and they shouldn't have tried so jam her into one.

She looks infinitely better in the shirt and tights she wore for "Somewhere There's A Someone".

I loved "Black Panther" but I know it won't win Best Picture, but I do hope it wins Best Costumes. The African-inspired ceremonial costumes were dazzling!

Here's the dowager Queen of Wakanda (the legendary Angela Bassett), and her attendants.

And here's some Wakandan bigwigs, wearing their inaugural gowns. Love it!

Except when very thin, Judy was always corseted. She was a classic apple shape and even the fashions of the 30s and 40s weren't kind to it.

Here she is, young and cute and by no means fat, and you can still tell she's corseted all to hell under that blouse.

Yeah, poor Judy, 4'11", long legs, short waisted--basically no room for a waist in an era that demanded waists.

Agree with R296, Black Panther doesn't deserve best picture (boring main character for one thing), but the Wakanda costumes are fabulous--they're a big part of the world-building.

R298 The 40's shoulder pads helped, giving ladies' waistlines a nipped in look by virtue of optical illusion. Here's Garland in such a costume, giving Gene Kelly his big break...

Madonna

But yeah, a lot of whales died for Judy...

Judy was also skeletally thin in For Me and My Gal, R300. That certainly helped give the illusion of a waist.

I read a book on Judy's TV show and apparently they had padding put into the back of her sheath dresses to give her the illusion of a nice butt: Otherwise, she was flat as a pancake. They also had to give her low-necked dresses because she didn't have any neck. Even during one of her thinnest periods, her shape was problematic.

It was a perfect singer's build, though: all chest and diaphragm.

Liza had some of the same figure issues as her mother but she was taller (5'4" vs. Judy's 4'11")...

Liza's frame is sort of Roaring '20s in CABARET, no? The flappers weren't known for their slim waists, they were about freedom from the whalebone.

No big boobs, not much in the way of foundations at all.

But we should start another thread on iconic POSES, man oh man!

"Scarlett's big mistake wasn't in not realizing she loved Rhett, but in ever loving him to begin with. He was a horrible, horrible person."

So was Scarlett. That's why they were perfectly matched. They were both "rascals", without morals or scruples. But at least Rhett was always honest about what he was, whereas Scarlett always hid her motives behind her pretty face and manipulative ways.

Try and pick just one.....

Channing Tatum's red ass floss during his Pony scene.

“Buy my festering turd of a record” - Billy Mack

I think Black Panther is a lock for Best Costumes this year because the usual fave Sandy Powell has been nominated twice for Mary Poppins Returns and The Favourite and will split her own votes.

Plus Ruth Carter's Black Panther costumes are the best.

Yeah r310, the Academy will give it to her, because BP will probably lose in other categories-that way the public can't scream racism.

Norma goes buggy in Riptide.

Alice's Restaurant with Arlo Guthrie

Scarlett did it best in GWTW, but who doesn't love the subversive governess Maria (Julie Andrews) sewing the von Trapp kids into draperies she pinched from their Austrian mansion? Remarkably, a set of these costumes was auctioned at over $1.5m in 2013.

OP, thanks for starting this thread! Such fun, and so many rich images and delicious cinematic memories!!! Costumes that came to my mind immediately but which others posted already include Keira Knightley's ravishing drape of a green dress in Atonementt. Sublime.

Madonna and Rosanna epitomizing 80s rag-bag, lacey street punk perfection...

All the brilliance of the Academy Award-winning work in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert...

Here are some more I'd like to contribute, including one that I am absolutely shocked hasn't made an appearance yet in a list of 300+...the sultry spectacularness of Miss Ava Gardner in her most iconic role (and dress) in The Killers...

The most famous image of déshabillé in cinema history. [Fun fact: it was Jennifer's own sweatshirt; she wore it like that in real life and Adrian Lyne said let's have you wear it in the movie. Little did they know they would sport a global fashion trend moment and one of the most iconic images of the 1980s.]

The most famous "swimming costume" in history (and with good reason--YOWZA!)...Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder...

The greatest intersection of evil and glamour in movie history...Gene Tierney in her ice-white terry trench, red lipstick and dark shades in the A.M. as she lets her crippled, teenage brother-in-law drown in front of her as he begs for her help... Never has abject cruelty and selfishness looked more beautiful...

Mia Farrow's incredible wardrobe in Rosemary's Baby, from chic funeral wear...

...to flowy red fabulosity in her drapey red pantsuit...

...to her mod slim-line shifts...

Dolly Sisters

...and perhaps the most brilliant and iconic maternity dress in cinema history...Rosemary's pale blue, baby doll "getaway dress" the day she realizes she is a pawn of her husband, neighbors, and doctors, all of whom are conspiring to poison her and steal her baby. Worn as she frantically tries to escape the evil closing in around her while greater Manhattan remains indifferent...

More Dolly Sisters....

Full length view, with her getaway suitcase...

"Barry Lyndon" elicits mixed reactions ( or, no reactions), however, if you have a schedule -free long lazy winter day and are in the mood for a moody period piece, it's perfect.

As are Milena Canonaro's costumes. Now that I think of it, those are probably what riveted me.

Anne Baxter's costumes in "The Ten Commandments"

Am I going to get yelled at for something from TV and from theatre?

And finally, my favorite costume in movie history...Tippi Hedren's pale green wool suit which she wears as Melanie Daniels during three days of terror in The Birds. Its color represents both nature and life; its high style, the sophistication of the ordered world which comes under siege over the course of the film. Hedren wears its like the fashion model she was for 15+ years prior to making her debut as an actress in the film, and it remains one of the most unforgettable ensembles in over a hundred years of cinema. Thank you Edith Head, Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren for this gorgeous, glorious and perfectly executed visual event which is strikingly beautiful free of context, and all the more brilliant for the way it serves the film.

Ruth Meyers' costumes for "The Golden Compass"

The gowns she designed for Nicole Kidman's character were exquisite, particular the crystalized golden sheath gown her character wears to the magistrates' dinner.

r 315, I did post Ava's dress in The Killers above at r243, but it was the other one - the real star, the bare midriff.

new generation Bond's nod to Honey Ryder...

That wacky Alla in Salome......

Love Pat's Trigere coat.

Marylin

Edith Head did the damn thing with all her designs in Shirley MacLaine's "What a Way to Go".

Hedy Lamarr & Victor Mature

Ginger's duds in Black Widow were pretty great.

sean youngs ' retro chic', 1940s 'rachel' costumes in blade runner.

alexander mcqueen ripped off the costumes for one of his shows

Lauren Bacall's impeccably tailored, clean and classic styles in To Have and Have Not (1944) were designed by Milo Anderson (who also did The Adventures of Robin Hood with Flynn and de Havilland).

More on Milo Anderson's sophisticated designs for Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not, her debut role. Remarkable that she was just 19.

This frock.

Lovely "New Look" gown there, R342!

I always loved Trinity and Neo from "The Matrix", in their cool black badass outfits. They were a beautiful couple, both so completely androgynous that they complement each other perfectly, and similar that they almost seem to be morphing into each other.

You couldn't pair either one with someone traditionally masculine or feminine, each needs someone who is also in the middle of the butch/femme continuum.

Hugh and Kate

I don't think that's New Look r343, the hips would be padded.

A stage costume that channels cinematic illusion.

Years ago, during another thread on this same topic, a DLer posted "just now, after I've been reading and posting on this thread for awhile, my neighbor pounded on the wall and said "Hey! Can you turn down the gay?"

The Yakuza wardrobe they built for Gackt on MOON CHILD is a favorite of mine. It’s Y2K, but polished so it becomes timeless.

In the film Gacchan sports a Padawan braid in his awful hilighted paigeboy cut, tinted shades, skin-tight sheer tees and pleather pants like a Matrix character; but combines them with billowing dusters, snazzy Italian moto jackets, beautiful silk shirts in spectacular ukiyo print designs and custom wingtips to considerably sharpen the look. He also wears matching jewellery sets with diamond earrings to accessories these garments, which still amuses me.

I have adopted this as my daily outfit.

I'm now capable of doing this.....

So since the thread is slowing, I'm dragging TV in. I always thought this was a masterpiece of imagination: mysterious, intriguing, metaphorical, and solving the problem of who would play Alexis when Alexis needed to be both cast and seen.

And this was total Norma Desmond... Anthony Powell was a master.

Don't know if its been posted yet.

Hairspray

Edith Head's costumes for "To Catch a Thief":

Thanks r53. Powell was Maggie Smith's designer of choice and his clothes for Travels with My Aunt were by turns drop dead elegant chic and witty expressions of the character's eccentricities.

^ Sorry, I meant r353 above.

Belita

The frock JLC wore in True Lies (without all the trim.)

Cher, Lily

Two different dresses in different fabrics, r361. Ah, the magic of cinema. Ya want costumes? I'LL give ya costumes!

Not a movie....still....

I like the color palette in this number....

Jean Harlow's entire wardrobe in Dinner At Eight.

I love Myrna Loy's dress from "The Thin Man".

Also Grace Kelly outfit shown at R28.

Bette Davis' dress from "Jezebel" was actually black fabric since red would not photograph as dark (although it was supposed to be red in the film).

I read that the "off the shoulder" dress that Bette Davis wore in "All About Eve" was originally made for Claudette Colbert who was originally cast as Margo Channing but who had to drop out at the very last minute due to an injury. There was not time to redo all the costumes. Hence, Bette pulling the straps down over her shoulders.

Ginger Rogers' feather dress from "Top Hat".

Astaire didn't like it because it dropped feathers all over, but Ginger insisted as she had always wanted a dress made of feathers.

Fred later gave her a feather pin as a remembrance.

One of the most famous bathing suits in movie history.

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Rita Hayworth’s sherbet orange gown and coat from Pal Joey. Frank’s suit is nice too.

Chuck.....

Xanadu (1980)

Anita Ekberg's black dress from La Dolce Vita in which she parades down Via Venote

…or Via Veneto

Yep

High Society

Howards End

Everything Maggie Smith wore in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969) were classic, timeless, impeccably tailored ensembles in an autumn palette that perfectly complimented her coloring. In brilliant Technicolor, my gehhhhhhrls!

Monroe wore "nude" style dresses in Some Like It Hot. As a boy, I was mesmerized by these dresses, Monroe, and her tits, and the lighting, despite my pre-gayness. (Or because of it).

Dietrich was beautifully, strikingly, and fetishistically costumed in her Von Sternberg cycle. I think Devil Is a Woman is the peak of surreal.

It's a parade of bizarre triumphs.

The gals looks fabulous here.

This, of course.

My Fair Lady

Who gave you permission to read my panties, r388?!

In film school, DEVIL IS A WOMAN was used- pretty much exclusively - to teach lighting courses.

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Marie Antoinette's costumes are mesmerizing. Poethic, perfectly researched, painstakingly reconstructed and the colors are just to die for. The black dress she wears at the ball was not my favorite the first time around but I loved how it looked once she was headed back to the palace, looking pensive and melancholic. The shoes by Manolo were insane. The powder blue gown she wears at the beggining is a favorite as well.

This one is a very weird case, the cosumes for Star Wars: Phantom Menace were gorgeous but worn by teeny tiny Portman they swallowed her whole...however we also got to see them modelled by model Audrey Marnay, who's not only taller but more graceful, and with Irving Penn behind the lens the result was hypnotic. The gowns are simply surreal in their beauty, their futurism, their eclectic mix of ethnic costuming from different eras and their ethereal quality shines through so perfecly here. I specially loves this frilly organza number with that whimsical parasol hat.

Another gown

This ensemble is just so demure and heart-achingly beautiful

Pfieffer again...starts about 1:28

Rob Roy

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

"...the cosumes for Star Wars: Phantom Menace were gorgeous but worn by teeny tiny Portman they swallowed her whole..."

I think that was actually the intent, they absolutely wanted her to be unrecognizable out of the costumes. And that the role of Queen of Naboo was so traditional and overlaid with ceremony that the monarch was unable to show any individuality. Whatever, the costumes certainly were a wow to look at!

The Lover

"The Scarlet Empress" had insanely amazing costumes, it was a cinematic fever dream, dreamed by Dietrick and Sternberg after a night on hallucinogens.

This outfit is too fabulous for words, but I haven't been able to find a picture of the 18th century see-thru slutwear that's my favorite costume in the whole shebang.

All the costumes in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon.

[quote] The gowns are simply surreal in their beauty, their futurism, their eclectic mix of ethnic costuming from different eras and their ethereal quality shines through so perfecly here.

R394/R400 I feel this way about the costumery featured in the BBC’s splendid film/miniseries adaptation of Mervyn Peake’s GORMENGHAST (2000). The general look of the production is pure over-the-top fusion, and serves the narrative marvellously by drawing the viewer into a strange new world where everything looks uncanny but dusty enough to believe in the life of it.

Fine artist & Costumer Odile Dicks-Mireaux designed gowns exclusively for the character of the tortured naïf Lady Fuchsia, played by lovely Scot actress Neve McIntosh. The inspiration for her gowns is drawn from sources across historical royal courts through time and over the world: Renaissance Italy, Elizabethan England, Qing Dynasty China, Baroque Spain, Romanov Russia, Colonial Africa, the avant-garde modernist period of WWI France, and opera in the time of Mozart. In certain outfits one may also detect cheeky nods to proto-gothic romance in music videos by Kate Bush.

The wardrobe basis is all sumptuous weighty fabrics draped in deep strata, and with so much detailing in beading & brocade that one goes cross-eyed trying to spot it all. The silhouettes cover a wide fascinating spectrum and no stone is left unturned when it comes to sleeves & bodice; McIntosh even had trouble breathing in some of the authentic corsetry. Neve wears some spectacular tiara & jewels on this production, too, including a crown formed of what seems twisted roots or antlers. My personal favourite dress of hers is the red velvet empire in the style of Mary I which Fuchsia chooses to drown herself in, complete with a huge ruby pendant in the shape of teardrop that hangs inside her bodice. Honorary mention goes to her ornate black qipao studded with silver stars that piques my imagination.

Here’s a excerpt from an archived interview with GORMENGHAST producer Estelle Daniel taken from special features in the DVD boxset, on the subject of costume design for the Lady Fuchsia:

[quote] ED: At the start of the story Fuchsia is "a girl of about fifteen with long, rather wild black hair." By the end, she is a woman in her thirties. The difference is achieved by more than just flattening her chest at the start and boosting it at the end. The cut of her dresses, and the choice of the fabrics, defines her age as well. The main dress worn by the young Fuchsia is made of red velvet covered with stars. But when she is older, the fabric is much more complicated, made of four layers in all. We made much use of the potential for wearing different layers, with Fuchsia wearing only part of her costume, in different scenes. So she was dressed in softer skirts in her own room, putting on the big dress when she went outside. The base [of the dress] is just a terracotta-coloured winceyette, and then the other layers are built on top of that, including bits of a 1910 dress bought in an auction, which has the sheen of a pearlised finish. We cut it up and stitched it on, as if it were hand-embroidered. Fuchsia's collar was inspired by a painting of Elisabeth de Valois (1081-1131). We wanted everything to look very old, almost as if the costumes were works of art from a museum. For us she was the princess painted by Velazquez, with something of the alabaster ‘waif’ features of Botticelli's imagination. And of course she is Juliet on her balcony, and Ophelia drowning herself in the lake. Odile saw her as a supremely impractical girl, who would always wear a velvet frock even for a walk in the woods. She said, "I think if you were living in a world of the royal family, you would not regard these clothes as anything special. You would put on this bejeweled frock but not be fussed about it that much." In the book Fuchsia wears an ancient necklace of sandstone doves...

^^forgot to add: Jon Rhys-Meyers custom ‘phantom’ mask from the same production was iconic. The costumery for his character Steerpike married inspiration from ink drawings in compilations of Dickens’ novels, covers of Harlequin paperbacks and the stereotypical uniforms of the Gestapo.

Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette wore the most beautiful dresses. The film was rich with opulence.

and they gave her great hair.

from Sleeper

Women In Love had some nice getups.

Orry-Kelly came up with some swell duds for Bette in Mr. Skeffington.

To Nomi is to love me.

Yes, Sophia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette" had the most gorgeous, sumptuous costumes ever!

But they were the point of the film, that film was much more about Marie's lifestyle than her actual life.

^^the se lever/fringuer scene in MARIE ANTOINETTE is so delectable.

This scene from Marie Antoinette is great too. The end is great.

Rather iconic.....

^Might as well nominate Nomi's cartooon bra...

R409 Yes, indeed. Another 1960's looking back on the 1920's. Especially love the colors and, of course, auteur Ken Russell's sense of irony mixed with flamboyance grounding the film in a sensual decadence.

Movie Hero stunning 😳

Yes, R420, it was gorgeous.

Also....

Yes, R4222.

Mind you, Sandy Powell costumes were perfect too.

I don't begrudge Mad Max their Oscar that year, but Cinderella had great gowns that fitted each character.

Going back to Marie Antoinette, the most beautiful scenes were Marie in her country home, wearing simple white dresses being visited by the exquisitely handsome Jamie Dornan.

Jamie Dornan

The Last Emperor won an Oscar for best costume and art production in 1987. I remember watching this movie and awed by the costumes.

R424, I hated the costumes for the recent "Cinderella". The stepmother and the ugly stepsister had gowns that were oddly 1940s-ish, which I hated, because it was so incongruent with the long-ago-and-far-away thing.

And Cinderella's big gown was nice, but the color was obviously digitally enhanced, which also took me right out of the movie and thinking about modern technology. IMHO the costumes in that movie totally failed to do what costumes ought to do - show character and bring magic to the story.

This Marie Antoinette circle jerk is becoming as annoying as the Lisa Kudrow one, recently. Must be the SAME OCD freaks.

Since the only place "Marie Antoinette" is worthy of mention is a movie costume circle jerk, R429, we might as well discuss it now.

R427 I really loved the costumes for the lovers of the Emperor when they appear for a brief moment. Thta movie was so dream-like...

R428, this is an interesting explantion. I understand where you are coming from.

However, I liked the stepmother clothes for exactly that reason. It was surprising and stylish. As for the impossible color of the ball gown, digitally enhanced, it added to the magic. She had a dress no mere mortal could make, out of this world.

Who among us does NOT have this frock in their closet?

This is for R429

Oh to hell with that Antoinette chick, I was a LADY!

Vivian Leigh's Anna Karenina

More, this one is just exquisite

In fur -

Marie Antoinette was my middle name, bitches! (really)

Danielle Darrieux in "Katia" 1938

ooops pic..

Here's Lucille Ball in the insane campfest "Ziegfeld Follies". She's about to take that whip and star gently flogging some chorus girls dressed up as black cats.

No, really!

Cocteau's Ruy Blas (1948)

Everyone in this scene from Madame de...

Antoinette....

The clip, r442......

R446 haha That femdom role really suits her.

The Marie Antoinette that matters: Norma Shearer gowned by Adrian.

^ Sorry, I just got my posting privileges back (DL has been in Primetime since last night) but evidently I can't post images or links. Drat.

Olivia Hussey and Sally Kellerman's mod pants suits in "Lost Horizon".

Remember the scene in "The Red Shoes" where Moira Shearer sweeps through the most beautiful overgrown French garden in this gown... and finds herself totally overdressed for a casual business meeting?

Lovely gown!

I really liked some of Doris Days' clothes in her Rock Hudson films.

I liked Ginger Rogers costumes.

Oh Roz......

Isabella in blue velvet

'Out of Africa' romanticized the Safari look in the 1980's.

Vintage Ralph Lauren's Safari look was inspired by the film, "Out of Africa".

Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder

Jean Arthur's elegant floor-length gowns and Charles Boyer's tuxedos in History is Made at Night (1937)

Another of Jean Arthur in shimmering gold satin from History is Made at Night (1937) ...

Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman

Okay, that's it. I need to dig out my copy of HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT and watch it again.

Gilda

Martine Carole

More Rob Roy

The Scarlet Pimpernel directed by Harold Young, 1934

Love in the Afternoon, 1957

Bulge Report: Double wedding scene in the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice (1995)...

Howards End. Merchant and Ivory's films always have the best opening introduction.

Local gairl......

^ Oopsie-doodle....

Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis sport skin-tight duds in Trapeze (1956)...

Costume Design: Veniero Colasanti

In leotards and tights...

Everything Theadora Van Runkle did for MYRA BRECKINRIDGE is spectacular. Delightfully over the top for a movie that was headed way over the top.

The wedding gown Barbara Stanwyck wore in The Lady Eve...

The black two-piece with beaded top she uses to flummox Henry Fonda (in his impeccable white dinner jacket).

Anything ocelot (Dame Wendy Hiller's matching hat and clutch in "I Know Where I'm Going")...

Looks like she's reading a text, R476.

In the last act of the original "Ghostbusters", Sigourney Weaver wears this faaabulous dress!

Orange gauze overlaying gold lame, most beautifully on camera, and it's loose and sensual and sexy in a way that I wish would come back into fashion.

"Ghostbusters" is playing right now, and the dress catches my eye every time I've looked up for the last half hour.

It really is lovely, and puts paid to the current notion that in order to be sexy, clothes have to be painfully tight. Most women look awful in extremely tight clothing.

that piece of shit granny curtain scarlett wears????? u swallowed the kool aid dudes

R480 And Carol Burnett famously took the next logical step...

[quote]r52 La Glenn in "Dangerous Liaisons"

Someone get that aged she-bitch out of here.

Perry King's costume in MANDINGO is a triumph of beauty, efficiency and design. I made several trips to the drive-in back in the 70's just to scrutinize this costume.

The Creature from the Black Lagoon...

Jennifer Lawrence wearing the wedding dress in The Hunger Games, Catching Fire.

I just finished watching Swann in Love. Beautiful costumes.