Bad repro looks

[Feraud]

Tales of the Gold Monkey?

 

[jake431]

Man, was that John Hillerman withthe monocle?
What's with the A2 jacket with handwarmers? Yikes!
A Samurai in full armor in the jungle??
Wow, what a mish-mash.
What the heck are those scenes from?

Not to mention the bi-swing back on that "A-2", as well as the blood chit.

-Jake

 

[Matt Deckard]

That tales of the gold monkey show actually looks pretty darn cool.

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

The Great Escape was on last night. Somehow the last time I saw it the movie didn't strike me as horribly inauthentic but seeing it now some of the characters and scenes were almost painful. The funny thing is that some of the characters looked really good while some others (mostly the Germans) looked terrible.

 

[GoldenEraFan]

In A Christmas Story, Ralphie's mother looks completely out of place. The movie takes place in the late-1930's to early 1940's (even though a postwar Chevrolet is seen) but her hair looks straight out of 1983.

 

[AmateisGal]

Hogan's Heroes. Oh boy. The women always look straight out of the 60's - hair, dresses, shoes. Drives me nuts when I watch it.

 

[Dr Doran]

Ugh. Bonnie and Clyde's chubby kid sidekick in the Mia Farrow film. He had long hair in back under his cap. Painful. Just painful. I would post a pic, but it's too horrible to behold.

 

[Hugh Beaumont]

Happy Days except the first season.

The rest was horrible, especially Potsy.

I think Hollywood does a terrible job portraying the 50's. They end up making everyone look like a caricature.

 

[flat-top]

Happy Days except the first season.

The rest was horrible, especially Potsy.

I think Hollywood does a terrible job portraying the 50's. They end up making everyone look like a caricature.

This doesn't look 50's to you?:

 

[Fletch]

Folks, bad repro looks occur because they work. They save money, they keep producers happy, and in many cases, they keep the audience happy, because they see what is familiar plus a little "flavor" of a period.

We are not the British, who are an ancient civilization and can afford to be anoraks and wallies about any number of things. We are a young country that remakes everything in the image of Now. It is part of who we are, and it has done us much good, even as it limits us.

(Great big hint: The internet, the web, and the electronic bulletin board were not invented by the kind of civilization that values the past.)

Here only obsessive specialists care, and to most folks, we are party poopers - more of a pain than the bad styling.

Does anyone here really want to be a party pooper? And what can we do about it?

 

[Elaina]

This is why I haven't posted pictures of me in vintage on here, because I am not a specialist, and I wear things I like versus being authentic, and don't always worry about it being right on target, and with several comments made about bad hair on websites, forget it. I realize it's shows, but I also know that I'd be blasted for the 30s suit and the 70s shirt and shoes and the 50s hair.

I do enjoy all of you tho.

 

[Gene]

This is an interesting question that I always wondered about. Will the period films of today look just as bad as some of these 70's movies in about 30 years? It just seems like in our modern eyes, it's okay to have a character's hair a little more modern than period, because we don't really notice. I say that because we don't have any distance from it yet.

Maybe to those guys in the 70's, it looked perfectly normal because that's what was all around them (i.e. feathered hair). Films like "The Notebook" and "Benjamin Button" and others with these heartthrob actors seem to all be a little "modernized."

 

[Hugh Beaumont]

All I can say is thank God for John Hughes.

When the 80's become nostalgic (it already has for many), John Hughes will be credited for capturing it exactly the way it happened and looked.

No one can do it better than he did.

 

[Hugh Beaumont]

This doesn't look 50's to you?:

True, but for some reason, Potsy's 70's look always rubbed me the wrong way.

 

[Dr Doran]

This is an interesting question that I always wondered about. Will the period films of today look just as bad as some of these 70's movies in about 30 years? It just seems like in our modern eyes, it's okay to have a character's hair a little more modern than period, because we don't really notice. I say that because we don't have any distance from it yet.

Maybe to those guys in the 70's, it looked perfectly normal because that's what was all around them (i.e. feathered hair). Films like "The Notebook" and "Benjamin Button" and others with these heartthrob actors seem to all be a little "modernized."

All true and well-thought out; but it seems to me that period films have become more accurate as time has gone by. More attention. (It still bugs me how few hats were worn in L.A. Confidential, though.)

 

[YETI]

I guess the only ones who take issue with those discrepancies are folks who collect vintage. I'd rather appreciate the ones who make that extra effort to stay true to form. Devil In A Blue Dress, Tucker: The Man And His Dream , and The 2 Jakes come to mind. I can't think of any t.v. shows. However, on Discovery there was a show about an incident involving numerous shark attacks off the Jersey shore in 1916. The re-enactments looked quite convincing as far as the attire. Then again, I'm no expert in Edwardian era fashion.

 

[flat-top]

True, but for some reason, Potsy's 70's look always rubbed me the wrong way.

Oh I agree, Potsie looked bad but Chachi had a mullet!

 

[ShoreRoadLady]

Hogan's Heroes. Oh boy. The women always look straight out of the 60's - hair, dresses, shoes. Drives me nuts when I watch it.

I love that show, but it's a given that I'll make a comment on one of the totally '60s outfits at least once per episode! However, I think the actresses had to supply their own wardrobes, so at least I can't blame the costumer.

 

[GoldenEraFan]

I guess the only ones who take issue with those discrepancies are folks who collect vintage. I'd rather appreciate the ones who make that extra effort to stay true to form. Devil In A Blue Dress, Tucker: The Man And His Dream , and The 2 Jakes come to mind. I can't think of any t.v. shows. However, on Discovery there was a show about an incident involving numerous shark attacks off the Jersey shore in 1916. The re-enactments looked quite convincing as far as the attire. Then again, I'm no expert in Edwardian era fashion.

The show Mad Men is probably the most period correct TV show ever made. I heard the creator strives to get everything period correct. I haven't seen anything in the show that was period incorrect. It's the best show on TV in my opinion. Another example of bad repro looks was the TV show Quantum Leap. It's understandable that Scott Bakula had long hair because the people he leaped into looked the same to everyone else. But in certain episodes that took place in the '50s I noticed some men and women sported '80s-'90s haircuts.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Sonny Corleone's (James Caan's) blow-dried hairstyle in The Godfather, Part I. Wrong, wrong, wrong. :eusa_doh:

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