Very unbelievable...
That a dressmaker would be straight. I don’t buy it.
shareWell actually, male dressmakers have a certain advantage, if you know what I mean.
shareI don't know what you mean.
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Yeah, the idea is SO unlikely that I spent the whole film waiting for the truth to come out.
There really should have been a bit of dialogue where the sister tells someone that "Yes, he's really straight. No, really, there *is* such a thing as a straight couturier".
The movie is set in the 1950s so perhaps such conversations weren't had back then. Not to mention, a few of his dresses were truly awful--to the extent that I even said to myself at one point, "And THIS is why you don't allow a heterosexual man to design women's dresses!"
shareI'm sure such conversations were had in the world of 1950s fashion, which was very much ruled by gay men and women at that time.
Yes, I read a book about the history of the modelling industry once, and the author contended that when straight men started getting involved in fashion and modelling in the 1960s, things became rather worse for the models.
One might say it's a fairy tale.
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