Author: kendra

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Costuming for Cinema

LJ user Padawansguide found this interesting article on costuming for the movies in the Hollywood Reporter. I will say that while I completely enjoy a good nitpick, I’m thrilled at the number of costume movies that have been coming out (I saw P&P3 and loved hating it, I’ll be first in line for Becoming Jane). Also, I do support the right and artistry of costume designers to tweak historical accuracy or even throw it out the window; although I also support my own right to nitpick them!

And speaking of movie costumes, there are a bunch of new stills from Marie Antoinette that have been released. While they don’t all look 100% spot-on authentic, they DO look fabulous and I’m really really excited. Check them out at Kirsten Candy (use Bug Me Not to bypass registration).

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Set Your Tivo!

Under the Greenwood Tree — “Keeley Hawes stars in this enchanting adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s pastoral romance set in the mid-19th century. Under The Greenwood Tree was the first of Hardy’s great Wessex novels. Part love story, part comedy, the tale evokes the richness of village life tinged with melancholy for a rural world that Hardy saw fast disappearing.”

This Sunday on PBS! I’m hoping it’s going to be in the vein of Austen/Wives & Daughters… We’ll see!

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Happy Happy Dance

Oh my god! I just got in the mail a copy of Barbara Johnson’s Album of Fashions and Fabrics! Which I bought for $43.50 +shipping (it goes for $225+ usually). I wasn’t going to believe that I actually found it for that price until it showed up, and it just did! I love Bookfinder! (off to covet my new precious)

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Exhibits!

Some interesting exhibits with good web presences:

A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960 at Yeshiva University Museum, New York City. (On now, closing soon?). There’s an exhibit catalog available.

The Age of Nudity at the Kent State University Museum, Ohio. March 9, 2006 – Jan. 7, 2007. I am loving the transition gowns, and check out these late 1790s transitional stays!

Fashion on the Ohio Frontier: 1790-1840 again at Kent State. The exhibit is closed, but some great pictures online, like: oooooo, the embroidery!, the sleeves!. A catalog is available.

All those pics will go into the next Real Women’s Clothing update, whenever I get around to that.