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more about #quoteunquote thekatieway: I've always been obsessed with Eleanor of Aquitaine, played her in The Lion in Winter, etc. She had something like 10 or 12 children (in the mid to la... more » thewitchandthemoll: I am a costume designer and this is 100% true, especially for film, I imagine, where you are inches away and every stitch counts. Fabrics have changed... more » ravella_the_river_boat_queen: My Christmas wish: These dresses coming back into fashion, so I could wear one, even if it was just once a week. more » idyll: I love period costuming; everyone looks so elegant and sexy, even the peasants in their artfully torn rags. But no matter how gorgeous the people look... more » HPgirl: Huh. I always liked the BBC Pride and Prejudice because the clothing was so outrageously ugly. i just thought it seemed realistic, because the Bennett... more » rixatrix: I wish someone would make me a gown that covered my arms and legs and left my glorious, milky breasts out for display. I'm not going to catch a husban... more » Dauphine: Let us rise up against the devils of rayon and polyester, my people. Destroy them where they lie upon the fabric bolt. Just don't burn them. It's not... more » Hana Maru, used up old slutbag on the pole: Does anyone else watch Robin Hood on BBCA? It's the worst offender for anachronism in costumes, props, hairstyles, you name it! more » Sunshineyness: Weirdly enough I find the same is true with hair design. Modern conditioners and hair treatments make trying to get good old fashioned hair styles (ev... more » Katxyz: Look, Rabbit, Lady GaGa was wearing that dress as a performance piece. She knows how hard red latex was to come by back in the day. more » JerkoftheMonth is changing her name!: I was in a vintage clothing store recently, and this beautiful peach silk negligee from the 1920s was the softest thing I have ever felt in my life... more » MargaretMoony: I think that anyone named Rabbit Goody is destined for a life of obscure academia. more » JerkoftheMonth is changing her name!: Can we also bitch about how unrealistically good period films' hair, skin, makeup, and teeth look? more » Dodgergirl: Dress fabrics were different in the fifties, you know. more » dandelionbrowne: I love period dress, but I am forever grateful that I live in a time where I don't have to wear several unwashed layers of heavy fabric and underwear ... more » greenbean12t: It's not just the fabric. Nobody had bright whites until relatively recently. If I have to see one more old-timey shakespeare adaptation with villager... more » curiousgeorgiana: I have such a passion for period clothes, it's ridiculous. Two of my favorite movies (for costumes at least). Elizabeth and Titanic. more » LaComtesse: "Furthermore," Rabbit Goody continued, "LaComtesse of Jezebel was clearly meant to live in periods such as the one pictured. Her love of enormous dres... more » zayante: I don't know about you, but all my best 18th century style dresses are made out of pleather. Neon plastic hoops skirts too as a bonus. more » Lymed: Is he suggesting you can't make a 19th century dress out of acetate? more » -
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Fabric Of Our Lives
"Today's fabrics often don't work in other time periods...The weights, textures and content are quite different, and these factors really do make a difference in making a costume look true to a time period." -Rabbit Goody, Thistle Hill Weavers [Smithsonian] -
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Heartburn
"I feel bad for the people who don't at some point understand that there's something funny in even the worst things that can happen to you." - Nora Ephron [CNN] -
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On Style Experts
"They may as well have said, 'Yes, that's a shame about you being poor – why have you not considered being rich?'" - Hadley Freeman [The Guardian] -
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Well, Obviously
Interviewer: "If you came back in your next life as a food item, what would it be and how would you like to be served?" Jacques Pépin: "Pigeon, served with peas, to my wife." [MiamiNewTimes] -
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The F Word
"There's a difference between feminism and political correctness. P.C. sucks." - Diablo Cody [Elle] -
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Margaret Atwood, In 140 Characters
"Twitter isn't writing, it's signaling...It could be writing. In fact, I thought of doing something like John Cage's symphony that will be played over 100 years. You could put a word a day on to the 'twit', or 'tweet'?" [Reuters] -
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"I Sometimes Forget How Things Will Translate Once They Are In Print."
"But this is a bullshit industry and I made a decision not to be a bullshit person. I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity and I can't compromise that." — Your friend, Megan Fox. [Telegraph] -
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That's "Fiction," People
Polymath and mature student James Franco on his creative writing: "When I started, it was fairly autobiographical and I hated it...So I started writing about people that I knew." [New Yorker] -
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Rachel Maddow Fibs At New Yorker Festival!
"I'm not very pretty...I am what I am. I look like a dude. I wear boring jackets. I have a big nose. I have short hair. No one is going to mix me up with a Fox Business anchor." [NYer] -
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Happiness Is A Warm Puppy
"It's wonderful: when you're happy all the time, you drive other people crazy."- Songstress Nellie McKay on her latest, Doris Day-inspired album. [NYT] -
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Character Study
Susie Essman on her famously self-confident alter-ego: "Susie Greene thinks she is drop-dead gorgeous and everything she chooses to put on is drop-dead gorgeous. Imagine being like that." [NYT] -
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Yeah, A Laugh A Minute
Liv Ullmann: "On [Ingmar Bergman]'s sets there was so much joking around. We told each other everything about ourselves. I have a picture from that time and Ingmar has written on it, ‘Here we are playing again.'" [W] -
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Diary Of A Young Girl
Francine Prose, on Anne Frank: The Book, the Life and the Afterlife: " Teenaged girls are the most maligned, undervalued portion of the population, as though they're all gossip girls. They can be very smart and attuned to the world." [WSJ] -
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The Importance Of Being Earnest
Joan Baez: "I think I kept (my humor) under wraps...I was pretty humorless in the face of the cameras. And desperately soul-searching, talking to people like you – desperately wanting to be real, you know, and not phoney." [Telegraph] -
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Dude Looks Like A Lady
"For three years I lived the life of a girl. It was most dull," - Horst Ratjen, speaking in 1957 of posing as female jumper on the 1936 German Olympic team. [BBC] -
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In Vino
Sommelier Emily Wines: "Never be ashamed of your wine choices...I'm the one who once poured a nearly empty bottle of one of my favorite wines into little travel-size shampoo bottles so I could finish it off during a trip." [NYT] -
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If You Weren't Depressed Before...
Hugo Lindgren: "Who needs the GDP?...The indicator I prefer is the Hot Waitress Index: The hotter the waitresses, the weaker the economy." Because in this economy, you see, even the hot are reduced to what they can get. [New York] -
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Wandering Jewels
Cintra Wilson: "I have always been mystified by Tiffany's heart-shaped silver dog tags, worn on a choke chain, with the engraved instructions, 'Please Return to Tiffany & Co.' This, I have always assumed, is precautionary." [NY Times] -
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Porn Identity
Amanda Marcotte: "On one hand, [asking why women don't watch more porn]'s like asking why men don't read more romance novels. You can usually tell when you're in the intended audience, you know. Women aren't stupid." [Pandagon]
