I don't know about you guys, but I have seen this movie a million times, and I have to say I can remeber all of Anne's dresses by heart. My favorite dress of her's is the blue one she has on when Henry first considers divorcing Katherine.
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I'm with you. I love the blue one and the headdress she wears with the jewels in her hair! I also love the white one she wears when she informs Henry that she's pregnant. Of course, I love all of them.
shareI think Margaret Furse was the designer for the costumes, as for Mary, Queen of Scots that came later. I love the costumes but can't find a website featuring them. Does anyone know if there is such a site?
I went to Hever Castle in the 80s and there were dummies there that had some of the actual costumes on. Very cool!
I think my favorite dress is the one she wears when she tells henry shes pregnant, the white one. Its so gorgeous. I love her head dresses. They are amazing.
shareI think my favorite dress is the one she wears when she tells henry shes pregnant
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I really like that one too. I also like the similarly fashioned tan one she wears when she gets arrested.
The beautiful gowns won an Oscar, the only one for this film, despite
Bujold's performance (one of the best in all of cinema, if you ask me.)
I love the dress, the dialogue, the scenery, the horses, EVERYTHING
abou that one scene where she and Henry gallop across the lawn at
Hever. It's a simple, but elegantly cut sky blue dress, and she has
some of her beautiful chestnut hair in a braid across the top of her
head. And she tells him (I know the speech by heart) :"I've heard
what your courtiers say about you, and I've seen what you are. You're
spoiled, vengeful, and bloody. You make love as you eat, with a good
deal of noise and no subtlety. That put-on, kindly, hail fellow well
met act of yours. My father's house will be pulled down and
Northumberland's too, they tell me. Well, pull them down, your Majesty.
You ARE what I've said."
I also liked the loose blue velvet robe with the brown fur collar she wore
for her wedding. Sumptuous but cosy; I could see slipping that on after a
shower! LOL . Blue, any blue, is my favourite colour. Can you tell?
(I'll look at the film again tonight and get some runners-up.) You know,
if she really wanted to discourage Henry, she should have tried wearing
less flattering clothes. Met him in curlers.
http://www.posterchoice.com/im/12057_small.jpg
(My new bathrobe!) LOL
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And the "jewels in her hair" costume cited by another poster:
http://i.cnn.net/v5cache/TCM/Images/Dynamic/i38/AnneOfAThousandDays1969_FF_300x225_011820061015.gif
I have to throw in a vote for the blue gown with jewels in her hair - that's my absolute favorite! But I also adore the white one she wears at her coronation, and the silver gown when Henry comes back to Hever and she makes a fool of him in front of the court. Come to think of it, I love that whole scene...
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I also absolutely loved the blue jeweles in her hair. And I loved almost all of her dresses- I don't know if I could pick a favorite :-).
shareMy all-time favorite was the exquisite brown satin she wears after she was made to come to court to be a lady-in-waiting. She runs out of the castle with her brother George Boleyn to meet Henry and he asks her if she's happy.
The fabric of this dress is just delicious, and it's topped with a white apron. The whole thing just shimmers and it's my favorite of all. Although I do love the pretty yellow she wears on her way to meet Percy.
And all of the French hoods she wore were fabulous. Who didn't want to wear one!
Oh i forgot about those two. I simply love the way the dressed moved when she ran.
Accio Brain!
It's not an apron; it's called an underskirt. If you look closer, you can see that the dark satin overskirt is draped OVER the lighter material, not the other way around. All the women wore their dresses that way.
shareYou don't know it as well as you think you do. (1) You left out "Your poetry is sour and your music is worse." And (2) it's "hail FAIR well met," not "hail fellow well met." And the dress is GRAY, not sky-blue. :-)
sharehttp://flickr.com/photos/jackthecat/sets/72157594319785875/
has images and comments on some of the costumes found in AoTD and other Tudor/Elizabethan films. Hope this helps!
My favorite is the buttergold dress she wore when she first goes to meet Harry Percy, and then is told she can't marry him. I like the full sleeves with the chemise puffs poking underneath.
http://flickr.com/photos/jackthecat/307723502/in/set-72157594319785875/
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My favorite dress is the gold one Anne is wearing at Hever, when Henry overhears her talking about how she would rather lose everything than become his mistress.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e30/careless_gemma/cap_00550.jpg
^Is this the blue dress everyone is talking about?
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I love the dress Anne wears in court:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackthecat/422092152/sizes/o/
‘Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am’
I love all of her costumes but adore the yellow dress she wears during her rendezvous with Henry Percy.
"I don't understand" ~IMDB's Victoria Winters
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At this rate it would just be easier to list the dresses I didnt like, it can only be about 2 or 3. My list is:
-The white gown(I call her queen gown) she is wearing when Henry is staring and Jane Seymour
-The blue one everyone is discussing
-Her trial dress and I even love the headdress aka the bag of laundry
--The gown she wears during her coronation
-Gown worn when she tells Henry she is pregnant
-The whitish/silver/green gown she wears when Henry first sees her
-The yellow gown that is worn when Henry comes to Hever
http://patienceisavirtureidonothave.blogspot.com/
I throw in the dress Anne was arrested in, I also like her trial dress, the dress when she talks of the game of titles, and the dress she wears during the dance that is interrupted by Wolsey with the bad news ("poor Henry").
shareI like the trial dress, but not that bag of laundry she's wearing
on her head! LOL (worst medieval headdress ever was the ottoman
Lady Capulet wore on her head at the ball in Zeffirelli's Romeo &
Juliet.)
Thank you for that link and the Anne Boleyn website!
Wow, I havn't thought of that horrible headdress in years, but you're so right! I seem to remember that poor Michael York (Tybalt) was wearing something equally atrocious on his head that looked like an explosion in the laundry room!
"He has my father's eyes."
"Gomez, take those out of his mouth!"
You may have already found this site, but here is a review of the movie and the costumes with LOTS of screencaps of the gowns.
http://periodmovies.blogspot.com/2008/04/anne-of-thousand-days-1969.ht ml
For anyone who is interested in period costumes, check this ssite out.
"We will not end the nightmare, only explain it."
I'm not sure of the accuracy of this, but I read that Anne's favorite color was yellow and that she often wore dresses in that color.
shareI think all the gowns in the film are dreamy and the headpieces divine (with the exception of the one she wore when at trial in the movie).
I bought a few similarly styled headpieces from a costume shop, much like the one she wears when she first dances with Henry, but mine have trailing scarflike material that hangs down my back and hair (and I have very long hair, so these are neat to wear and fun to play around with!). One trail is almost transparent light blue and the other is a solid dark red material. Very fun!
I also love the white mask that Anne wears at the costume ball in the movie and I am working on making my own copy of it.
The original from the film can be seen at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagination-historique/2348334835/
Anyway, love this movie and I never tire of watching it :)
"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than..a rude remark or a vulgar action" Blanche DuBois
That is because VERY few films design the Tudor Gable hood properly. We have Holbein's sketches both front and back for the costume designers.
https://theweddingworldblogger.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/gable-hood1.jpg
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I do not understand why they are inaccurate, with the exception of BBC's "The Six Wives of Henry VIII".
"A stitch in time, saves your embarrassment." (RIP Ms. Penny LoBello)