Adrian certainly did a magnificent job costuming his women but... that fashion show in which he gets to 'cut loose and play avant garde designer' is 100% AWFUL.
shareDoes anyone know which specific stages at MGM The Women was shot in?
shareThere's a white and red evening gown, as the models are shown leaving a play, that I absolutely love, but yes, a great deal of those items were decidedly overblown.
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That white/red evening dress was my favorite.
"Who's running this airline?!"
I agree, the most memorable was the red and white evening dress that ends up being worn by Princess Mara when the film switches back to B&W.
shareThere was a blue dress I thought was pretty. But the hats were abominable.
shareWhat was the point of that scene, which seemed to go on forever? It felt like a commercial.
shareI think it was a gimmick to showcase Technicolor which was somewhat of a novelty at the time. That sequence has always felt forced and weird to me. It just didn't fit into a straight comedy drama. Apparently George Cukor didn't like it either.
shareYes, most of it was awful, like it belonged in a previous century, but only in some ways.
shareI also liked the red and white gown, and several of the tennis outfits and the red and green-and-white suits at the monkey house were OK.
But most were, as my mother taught me to say politely, not to my taste.
And the cape with the fake hand was the stuff of nightmares.
It seems to have been a brief dalliance with surrealism -note also Rosalind Russell's shirt with the eyes on it.
shareIt seems to have been a brief dalliance with surrealism -note also Rosalind Russell's shirt with the eyes on it.
I normally don't pay that much attention to what they're wearing in black-and-white movies but damn did that weird eye shirt stand out. Not a fan at all.
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I've rarely seen anything at a fashion show, in any time period, that anyone would actually wear.
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