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The One Weakness of the Fashions of THE WOMEN:

posted 12 years ago by HijodelCid
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the hats.
What THE WOMEN put on their heads are ESPERPENTOS=GROTESQUERIES so absurd that even in that time the reaction of the men must have been to snicker, cringe and wince.
What otherwise reputable movies and TV shows are ruined for you because of the ugly and ridiculous fashions? Many movies of the 60s are painful for me to watch because of those tall women hairdos that were imitations of the HUGE women hairdos of the 18th century.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)

[–] verbumctf 12 years ago

Jean Becker's 'Falbalas' (1945) is famous for its outlandish fashions. Hats and all; it takes place largely at a couturier's atelier.

It didn't ruin the film for me, however. These were authentic Paris fashions during the Occupation. You may find you'll enjoy it.

Ignis principium omnium rerum

[–] alxnrth 12 years ago

Those HATS!!!

[–] poetcomic1 12 years ago

Adrian was quite brilliant at costuming by using other designer's looks and integrating them into a film and designing them to flatter particular stars. As for being an independent and daring fashion designer - shudder! - not one outfit in the whole show is endurable. Love the movie, though.

[–] franzkabuki 12 years ago

Yeah, I also kept wondering what sick mind it must have been that came up with all that crap these broads were wearing on top of their heads... and why on earth did anyone actually go for these... things.

"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

[–] hodie 11 years ago

Lol, I was going to say the hats too!

[–] lynda618 11 years ago

So ugly...they were almost painful to look at!

[–] kenny-164 11 years ago

The color sequence of the fashion show I find can best be viewed by fast forwarding through it until it goes back to black and white.

[–] larpine 11 years ago

Which is what I did the first twenty years, but now I actually enjoy it. In many ways, it was WAY ahead of it's time especially in regards to the models themselves.

I believe at the time that it was released, if anything, it solidified that the story was taking place in New York and separated it from Hollywood pack where it was filmed.

[–] parillamilt 11 years ago

I only saw a little bit of this film. Hard to take seriously the touching scene where Mary has a talk with her daughter when she's wearing what I can only describe as a rakish, elvish Pilgrim's hat. Yikes!

[–] millerdsplaydzign 11 years ago

"even in that time the reaction of the men must have been to snicker, cringe and wince."

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Women don't dress for the approval of men. They dress to please themselves and to impress other women.

Men, and men's reactions to women's fashions, are irrelevant. They were even more so in the fashion circles of the 1930s.

And the hats were insane, over the top, in-your-face, boundary busting fantasies. They were costume, fashion, bizarre personal statements by a highly prolific designer who designed for larger than life characters - in a word: fabulous.

[–] HijodelCid 11 years ago

,,in a word: FABULOUS.''
So that is the reason why Blondie Bumstead buys all those weird hats that make her look so ridiculous!
I always thought she bought them as a consolation for her nonexistent sex life with her nebbish of a husband, whose name does not deserve to be remembered.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)

[–] millerdsplaydzign 11 years ago

Aw, c'mon, now.

Her hats were pretty neat, and I always thought Dagwood was kinda cute. She could have done far worse.

But yeah, she's certainly an affectionate caricature which reflected women's mania for "statement making" headgear in the first half of the twentieth century.

[–] misspaddylee 11 years ago

I am constantly surprised that women's hats do not provoke more murders.

- Charles Laughton as Sir Wilfrid in Witness for the Prosecution

My friend, you are soured by too much contact with humanity.