Your Favorite Film Costumes

[evelyns-niece]

This is so fun to read. Makes me want to go and have a classic movie marathon weekend!

 

[Grant Fan]

Also I would give all my clothes away just to have this dress on Rita from You were never Lovelier. I bet that dress just lit up the room!

OMG that is one of my favorite dresses ever. The picture of Rita laying down is the first picture of her I ever saw, someone thought I looked like her and they showed me that photo. That is actually almost a dead ringer for me. But that isn't the point I have always had my heart set on having this dress made in white for when I "grow up" and get married.

 

[Grant Fan]

Oh loved that one too I would be a very pleased red head to have this outfit it is fabulous

 

[Grant Fan]

so I have a few.
Here are the ones Rita wore that I love.

if only I could find a dress like this

Now it's time for Ava who I also adore
first this one I love this sweater I have always wanted it

This dress is just stunning to me it is an amazing color

The entire outfit is great but the jacket/coat is really wonderful

You have to love this it is just the epitome of a starlet dress to me

and the last one

 

[Christy]

Those Hayworth dresses are fabulous! I love all of them! I love this thread, it's one of my favorite threads.

 

[Inky]

I just wanted to share a book I've had for years and years and refer to often for eye candy, hair and costuming: The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour.

 

[Antje]

I also love this beautifull look, just an adorable hat, and a lovely lady ofcourse

 

[analiebe]

some more glamour from the genius that was costumier travis banton

carole lombard

 

[C-dot]

Carole Lombard, in that photo, absolutely epitomizes 30's glamour. I also love the look in her eyes, she seems very in-the-moment.

 

[kyda]

I think my favorite dress would have to be the black one the Rosemary Cloony wore in White Christmas. It is so simple and it is very elegant.

 

[BeBopBaby]

I've always had it bad for the green dress with plaid trim that Ann Miller wears in the Prehistoric Man number in On the Town. I couldn't find a photo of the dress, but here's a video clip from YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM4L38u5vpE

Also, in what movie does Ginger Rodgers wear that adorable dress with the arrows and hearts on it? It was a movie with Fred Astaire but I can't remember which one, nor can I find a picture of it.

 

[Lusti Weather]

Also, in what movie does Ginger Rodgers wear that adorable dress with the arrows and hearts on it? It was a movie with Fred Astaire but I can't remember which one, nor can I find a picture of it.

Carefree! I love that one too; I'm a sucker for stuff with hearts. There's a great lobby card over at Dr. Macro which shows Ginger wearing the dress.

 

[BeBopBaby]

I thought it was Carefree, but I googled and googled and could not find a picture of that dress so I thought I was wrong.

Thanks for the picture! I love that dress.

 

[LadyStardust]

I have always loved this outfit of Garbo's for The Torrent. Makes me wish I could pull something like that off, but it is just a dream.

 

[HadleyH]

"Letty Lynton" 1932

... "Adrian and Joan Crawford a match made in fashion heaven "...

Edith Head once called "Letty Lynton" the greatest influence on fashion in film history .... and she should have known what she was talking about!

 

[HadleyH]

more "Letty Lynton" ....

 

[crazydaisy]

to add just a few
Tala Birell in Nagana

Tallulah Bankhead

Loretta Young in He Stayed for Breakfast

Veronica Lake in I Wanted Wings

Marlene Dietrich

 

[cherry lips]

There's a great lobby card over at Dr. Macro

What a swell dress! The film costumes I remember best seem to have more to do with the body beneath the fabric I'm afraid...
like this white t-shirt

this shirtwaist dress

or anything worn by Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, or Paul Newman.

 

[clubwitsend]

a few faves!

Okay, so ALL of the Adrian costumes in The Women are fabulous...but the black gown Norma Shearer is wearing in this scene is so elegant...

I actually love this scanty costume Louise Brooks is wearing in Pandora's Box, too...

Fay's gown in Kong is still amazing...

Joan shining in 'Sadie McKee'

 

[Inky]

Deitrich and Garbo gowns at FIDM:

http://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2009/10/presentations-abroad.html

i can't get enough of these fabulous images!