Video: Luxury and glamor of Hollywood: sparkly dresses of film stars
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Looking at the retro shots of the stars Hollywood the first half of the 20th century, you can see one common detail among the actresses: they all loved to wear shiny dresses. Their outfits were made of lamé (brocade with metal threads), embroidered with sequins, but the most favorite were the evening dresses made of glass beads. One such dress could weigh up to 15 kg, but the actresses went to great lengths to shine under the spotlights.
The concept of the "golden age" of Hollywood can be associated not only with outstanding actors, but also with their glamorous outfits. In the best way possible, the luxury on the screen was emphasized by the brilliance of the actresses' dresses. Since black and white cinema prevailed at that time, reflective and light-absorbing properties played an important role in the choice of materials for outfits.
Shiny fabrics were held in high esteem. Dresses were embroidered with sequins, bugles. But the sequins were often deformed by the excessive heat emanating from the lighting equipment on the set, so dressers increasingly opted for bugles.
The weight of one glass bead dress could reach 15 kg. But, due to the slanting cut, the outfit perfectly fit the figure, emphasizing every bend of the body. The actress immediately changed: she became stately, graceful.
But, it was not done without tricks. When Marlene Dietrich was asked what she wears under her dress, she replied: "Only a belt for stockings." It is worth noting that the actress was cunning. Before putting on a dress, she put on a special tight leotard, which hid all the flaws and emphasized the dignity of the actress's figure. Now it would be called shaping underwear.
Despite the fact that the shades of the outfits were not visible in the black and white films, the dresses were made in different colors. So in the film "The Bride Wore Red" (1937) for the actress Joan Crawford, a beautiful dress was made of red glass beads. Ten seamstresses worked on the outfit for two weeks. It took 2 million glass beads to make it, and the total weight of the dress was 13 kg.
In black and white cinema, not only the texture of the clothes was important, but also the makeup of the actresses. Standard theatrical makeup flowed under the hot spotlights. Made a real revolution in the field of makeup Max Factor is a cosmetologist from Ryazan.
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