Comments on: Inglourious costumes

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:03:04 +0000

I will see if I can get a picture of the blouse for you from the DVD.
As for “war-torn Paris”; it is such only in our imaginations and in the history written by the victors. Paris was taken by the Germans without firing a shot. There was no bombardment or anything like that. The Germans just drove into to Paris and took over. Southern France was relatively unoccupied by Germany over the course of the war.

By: JustGail

JustGail — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:19:33 +0000

quote from your post –
“I really miss yokes on women’s suits and blouses. How come we don’t do that anymore? Have we forgotten how to sew them? There’s no denying it can be tricky to sew a yoked style with a collar like this if the pattern isn’t made just so but it’s not insurmountable.”

Perhaps it’s not that we’ve forgotten how to sew them, more like pattern companies have forgotten how to draft them properly? At least with the “big 4″ it seems that even the simpler patterns have drafting issues. It seems to me that yokes went out of style about the time knits became more prevelant, along with the 60’s “hippy” fashions?

I will most likely wait until this is out on DVD to view, so I can look at the clothing more closely….

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:02:57 +0000

I am waiting until this comes out on NetFlix so that I can look at the clothing without being distracted by the violence. The previews of the clothing has been such eye candy for me though. I also liked the clothing in “Julie and Julia”. Julia Childs had some stylish garments post-WW11.

By: Eva Guerrero

Eva Guerrero — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:30:25 +0000

Movie was Great! about not wearing these suits anymore, I think it’s because we have become too casual with separates pieces. Suits are limiting in this sense and they are expensive. A well done suit in a good fabric is expensive and time consuming. I love suits too! they are so elegant.

By: Thomas Cunningham

Thomas Cunningham — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:16:55 +0000

The movie was horrible.

From the men’s side, I didn’t think that Brad Pitt’s white dinner jacket fit very well. The lapels were ‘bowing’ out. Short strap? Or possibly just too tight in the chest?

By: Mari-Anne

Mari-Anne — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:53:32 +0000

…as for yokes on clothing, I simply add it — assuming it will ‘fit in’ with the style the designer intended. Besides, with the pattern alterations I need to do, it improves the fit and makes
life so much easier. And I like easy!

By: Sandra B

Sandra B — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:01:24 +0000

Hmm, not sure about the movie, I find Tarantino a bit heavy going, but I expect my husband will rent it as soon as he can, so I might peek at the costumes. However, I have recently become fascinated by zippers. I thought that a zip was a zip was a zip, but huge bag of vintage ones showed me just how much design we’ve lost. My favourite is the one where the tape appears to be intended as a binding of some sort, and the teeth are a heavy copper coil. I can’t for the life of me work out how to sew it on to best advantage, so I’m thinking of framing it instead.

By: sff

sff — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:14:28 +0000

The zippers on Shosanna’s dress were an eye sore, I thought I was the only one that noticed. I loved every bit of the movie!

By: Alison Cummins

Alison Cummins — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:36:39 +0000

Eric,

Yeah, my beloved is dubious. He says I won’t like it, but we can go if I really want to. In the past I’ve been ok with Tarantino’s comic-book violence, but if he’s become less superficial it might be a problem.

By: Eric H

Eric H — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:42:37 +0000

A word of warning to people thinking about going to this movie just for the costumes: there is a lot of graphic violence. If you can remember that it’s all fake, you can get through it.