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The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

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The costumer should be sent to jail for banging audiences over the head with too-obviously vulgar, historically inaccurate outfits:


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I'm guessing I was right when I thought that was a bit too much?
 

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The jacket's shoulders are too extended --and padded-- for the period (1921, yes?), even if Tom had his suits made in Savile Row. The sleeves are also too loose. The waistcoat's closure is too high. The necktie's knot is far too fat for the era. At the time, brown shoes were not worn with dark blue, grey, or black trousers.

Should his vest be pulling like that?
 

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The jacket's shoulders are too extended --and padded-- for the period (1921, yes?), even if Tom had his suits made in Savile Row. The sleeves are also too loose. The waistcoat's closure is too high. The necktie's knot is far too fat for the era. At the time, brown shoes were not worn with dark blue, grey, or black trousers.

1922. Thanks - that's clearer now. How about the trouser width? That looked rather too narro to my eye, but I don't know if I'm applying a Thirties idea to the early twenties - I know Edwardian (1910s) trews were of a slimmer cut than the thirties, Not so clear on when the transition point was, though.

Actually, that pairing was sometimes done. However, the color of the solid waistcoat and trousers is too similar to the color of the striped jacket. When a striped jacket was worn with, say, solid colored trousers, those trousers would be either notably lighter or darker than the jacket.

Yes, I should have been clearer - that's what I meant. The pairing of a blue pinstripe jacket with a very similar blue but unstriped other pieces. Gives it something of the look of an am-dram production with no budget and where they have put the pieces together to try to make them look like a matching suit, as opposed to deliberate contrast.

I'm guessing I was right when I thought that was a bit too much?

Period accuracy (I don't claim to know women's clothes from that era) would be the issue. Myrtle should be a little bit much, but strictly in the context of her own period. She's as much a dreamer as Gatsby, and comes from the same working class background, equally striving, in her own way, to break into the world of the rich. He is perhaps more successful at it than Myrtle, though ultimately getting in with those "careless people" kills them both. Myrtle I always read as a beautiful woman who has the misfortune to be born with the perfect hourglass figure in an era when the overriding beauty ideal is to have no figure - no bust, and no hips, both of which she definitely has. Twenty years later she'd be the ideal, but not in the day in which she lives. She's a trier, so she'll have some approximation of high society fashions, cobbled together from what bits she can afford, the bits Tom buys her (which, given his nature, are unlikely to be what suit her figure or have much if any thought put into the buying of them), and inspiration from what the big Hollywood names are wearing in Town Tattle and the other magazines she buys.
 

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The costumer is the director's wife Catherine Martin. She's done the costumes for his earlier films - Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia, etc., - so I wouldn't expect accuracy or understatement!

Am I the only here worried that it's the STORY that isn't going to be better served this time around, even more than the look of the film?
 

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I am not an expert in women's early 1920s clothes, but that outfit she has looks awful. It looks like someone was trying to recreate the 1970s take on 1920s clothes, but not in a feature film like The Sting or The Wild Party, but how a 1970s made but 1920s themed adult movie would look...
 

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Well, Carey Mulligan is a very good actress, judging by her heartbreaking performances in An Education and Never Let Me Go (two of the best films I've seen in the last year.) She should be a more interesting Daisy.
 

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Why, oh why didn't they cast Justin Timberlake (or David Beckham) as Gatsby, Beck as Nick, Paris Hilton as Daisy, Victoria Beckham as Jordan ... and Snookie as Myrtle? That would have been hilarious and in keeping with the costuming we've seen in the set photos.
 
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