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cressida-jayoungr · 11 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

The Taming of the Shrew / Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina Minola

I've been waiting a while for a chance to post this dress! I've always liked the combination of blue, green and white. The bows on the skirt add a festive touch. Once again, Irene Sharaff's designs for Elizabeth Taylor harmonize well with the rest of the costumes, designed by Danilo Donati.

#the taming of the shrew #wedding costumes #elizabeth taylor #wedding dresses #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #1967 films #1967 movies #renaissance costumes #renaissance style #16th century costumes #16th century fashion #16th century style #shakespeare costumes #shakespeare on film #irene sharaff

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energizrbunni-blog · 4 months

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Last night was my company Holiday Party, and we're doing really well, so it was held at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

I was so happy that also included the Styled by Sargent exhibit, of John Singer Sargent paintings and the actual articles of clothing alongside them.

Now, you have probably seen this painting of Lady Macbeth

But have you seen the costume she's wearing??

It's gorgeous, obviously.

But that texture! It's *crochet*

And some knitting

Really simple crochet too; just a chain and single crochet lattice with beads and metallic thread added for this chain mail effect.

Despite John Singer Sargent being an expert painter of fabric (no, really, just look at it), I never knew Lady Macbeth's costume had to be *hand crocheted* for that texture in the painting.

Anyway I'm gonna be making myself some faux-chainmail by crocheting it for the next Renn Faire

#art #not my art #john singer sargent #lady macbeth #costume #costuming #shakespeare #macbeth #crochet #knitting #painting #fabric

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bebemoon · 8 months

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kate winslet as ophelia in "tbt: hamlet" (1996) .

#kate winslet #ophelia #hamlet #shakespeare #film #90s #kenneth branagh #costume #queue

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adderstones · 3 months

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It's almost Valentine's! I was able to finish the Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou piece for my Wars of the Roses series <3

Henry VI tends to be brushed off as a mentally-ill and ineffective monarch to this day, and it's difficult to find information that does not infantalize or malign him. Margaret of Anjou, my favorite figure from this period, would was a steadfast pillar of support for Henry until the day he died. A lot of historians paint Margaret as only supporting her husband to secure the throne for their son, but I find that narrative difficult to be the only reason. Margaret campaigned for Henry's release from captivity tirelessly and worked extremely hard to gather support for his reign and even raised armies for him. While their relationship doesn't have the passion and flare that Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville did, I think their kind of devotion is exemplary in royal diplomatic marriages from the period.

#art #wars of the roses #henry vi #margaret of anjou #english history #english costume #watercolor #colored pencil #artists on tumblr #anyway justice for henry vi every account i read of him either speculated on his mental illness or his lack of sex drive but usually both #also margaret is depicted as this like stone cold bitch thank youuuuu shakespeare

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fairweathermyth · 1 year

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ORANGE in Period Drama Costuming Appreciation

1899 (2022- ) costume design by Bina Daigeler Shakespeare in Love (1998) costume design by Sandy Powell The Great (2020- ) costume design by Sharon Long RRR (2022) costume design by Rama Rajamouli Dickinson (2019-2021) costume design by John Dunn Dreamgirls (2006) costume design by Sharen Davis My Country: The New Age (2019) costume design by Kim So-yeon Interview with the Vampire (2022- ) costume design by Carol Cutshall

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foxglovevibes · 5 months

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Trying super hard not to obsess over the deliberate choice of having Oliver be dressed in a costume that has very heavy themes of Puck/Robin Goodfellow AND King Oberon for his birthday party while Felix has cheap golden wings strapped to his back in an outfit that just SCREAMS Titania (despite his mother being implicitly dressed as such-) in the way it symbolises Titania's refusal to reconcile or reunite with Oberon throughout the plot of A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as her disdain for Puck and his tricks, which is further supported by Felix's own choices to make his costume the bare minimum for an event celebrating Oliver and his refusal to forgive or forget Oliver's lies.

A theme/symbolism which is only further emphasised with Felix doing the best he can to avoid him at all costs and Oliver refusing to let him do so for his own selfish needs and wants-

#foxglovevibes #saltburn spoilers #saltburn #felix catton #oliver quick #shakespeare #shakespearean #titania #oberon #puck #robin goodfellow #costume analysis #character analysis

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diioonysus · 8 months

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vintage illustrations + my tattoo list

#is from a bride book but the art is by john r neill #arthur rackham udine #also john r neill #from the 1914 book of shakespeare midsummer night's dream by i think william heath #it's by robert anning bell #the curiosities of kissing by alfred fowler but not sure if he's the artist #is in greek theatre costumes by iris brookes #in the book the golden fleece and the heroes who lived before achilles and the artist is willy pogany #in the book fairy tales by hans christian andersen and the artist is charles robinson #in line and form by walter crane #in the book kitchen maid and the artist is j. b. partridge #in the book the tale of lohengrin knight of the swan and the artist is willy pogany #in the book by john keats but idk the artist #in the book illustrators of montmartre by emanuel frank #in the book early poems of william morris #in the book the eve of st anges and artist is edmund h garrett #in the book home theatricals made easy or busy happy and merry #in the book the illustrated london instructor #in the book songs for little people and artist is h stratton #from alfred tennyson's poems and artist is eleanor forescue brickdale #artist is gerhard munthe #in arthur rackham's wagner ring cycle: the valkyrie #tiburtijnse sibille by jan luyken #by peter behrens #by shigeru hatsuyama #in the book devises heroiques by claude paradin #in the book price list of magical apparatus and illusions from 1884 #in arthur rackham's ring cycle: valkyrie (this is my newest tattoo i got!!)#in scapel: the 1911 year book of the woman's medical college of pennsylvania #in the child world by artist c robinson

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 3 months

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Vivien Leigh as Titania in a stage production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," 1937. I get chills just viewing this photo!

(Broadway Remembered)

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Out of this wood do not desire to go. Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no. I am a spirit of no common rate, The Summer still doth tend upon my state. And I do love thee; therefore go with me. I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee, And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep, And sing while thou, on pressèd flowers, dost sleep, And I will purge thy mortal grossness so That thou shalt like an airy spirit go. Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mote, and Mustardseed!

Titania in Act 3, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

#costume #Shakespeare #Broadway Remembered #Vivien Leigh #Titania #A Midsummer Night's Dream #William Shakespeare #quotes

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themimsymonologues · 2 years

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Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer

Night's Dream, The Old Vic, 1937 (colorized)

The 1937 Christmas production was directed by

Tyrone Guthrie, with sets and costumes by Oliver Messel. Shakespeare's play was presented as an affectionate Victorian pastiche, and included large choruses of muslin-clad fairies flying in on wires.

Mendelssohn's famous incidental music was much in evidence, with choreography by Ninette de Valois. Vivien Leigh's Oberon was played by

Robert Helpmann, Ralph Richardson played

Bottom, and Gordon Miller, Puck.

*** Titania's fairy crown, designed by Oliver Messel and worn by Vivien Leigh

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variousqueerthings · 4 months

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a few things i appreciated about the much ado about nothing with dt and ct:

very much enjoyed that they both exhibit loser-behaviour. that is, there can be a risk in this play of making beatrice too right and benedick just someone who's gotta level up to deserve her, but this one really allowed both of them to be brilliant as well as stupid, which is fun because it makes both of them more complex and equal to one another + I think it's fun for an actress to be a little silly sometimes and this role really allows for it, and especially an actress like catherine tate to be familiarly hilarious, which makes the parts where she's deadly serious hit all the harder

I feel like with the doctor and donna, yes it's text that they're not sexually or romantically attracted to each other and I am so very into that of course, but I'm just so happy to see proof that they could shift their tension a little to the left and be pretty damn sizzling -- this especially because donna was a couple of years older than rose and martha and I sometimes feel like people who read romantic and/or sexual context into things do so because they're reading a conventional early-20s youthful sexiness to the female characters. so just having them go "we can be very very sexy with each other if we so desire" was fun

several people have pointed out david tennant in a skirt vs catherine tate in a suit, and i will do so as well, specifically because that was so veeeery t4t bisexuality of them, and i feel like there was a deliberate choice in the party scene to make the audience think about femininity and masculinity as it pertains to sexuality and power, specifically through the lens of these two characters and their equal status with one another. it means that when we get to the more direct confession at the failed wedding, when beatrice is wearing a plunging blue dress and benedick is in full uniform, that feels directly juxtaposed -- the costuming deserves its whole own analysis really, and i'm sure someone's done that, but specifically those two scenes make my brain go brrr

the way it moved from comedy to drama and back again so effortlessly. the way it placed emphasis on certain words in order to give sentences new meanings. simply the general feeling of very deep, deliberate engagement with the text

catherine tate's boobs. they did those costumes like that on purpose, you cannot convince me otherwise

#there's soooo much to say about its understanding of power dynamics and how it uses costuming with bnb to make that #clear to the audience --- yes she'll dress up in a suit at the party but it's benedick that has to challenge claudio #the very consistent clear characterisation of their interplay with each other that felt like it went beyond just speaking the words #it just understood what it wanted to say so well #much ado about nothing #david tennant #catherine tate #shakespeare #also you know they wear these clothes with each other #the queer under/overtones in this production #the fact that they're Equals from the beginning

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cressida-jayoungr · 7 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: White Redux

Richard III / Mary Kerridge as Queen Elizabeth

Hmm, black spots creeping into our white costumes again? Strange....

This costume, nice as it is, baffles me. It's a fine example of fashion from the 1300s, worn for a scene (the death of King Edward IV) that takes place in 1483. See the picture below: Jane Shore in the red and blue dress shows an example of what women were actually wearing at the time (see here for a more detailed look at that costume). The queen even wears other costumes more along those lines in other scenes. So why on earth did they choose to put her in clothing that was a hundred years or more out of date for the first part of the film? I would love to know the answer.

She's not the only one, either--one of the photos shows her walking with the Duchess of York (Helen Haye, in black), who is wearing a gown of a similar era but almost a perfect palette-swap of the queen's costume.

#richard iii #white dresses #mary kerridge #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #period film #medieval style #medieval costumes #medieval fashion #1955 films #1955 movies #shakespeare on film #shakespeare adaptations #shakespeare costumes

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fishfingersandscarves · 1 year

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character renderings for my costume class!

#my art #fishfingersandscarves #the tempest #shakespeare #miranda (the tempest)#prospero (the tempest)#ariel (the tempest)#illustration #william shakespeare #costume design

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shakespearenews · 3 months

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The garment’s silk was in good condition, and it still had the original buttons, Rivers Cofield wrote on her blog. The buttons appeared to have images of Ophelia from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #dress #dress history #code #hamlet #ophelia #costume #vintage #smithsonian #silk dress

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perioddramapolls · 5 months

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Period dramas' dresses tournament: Golden-yellow dresses

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Semifinals Finals

Winner: Bai Zhouyue's dress, from Novoland: eagle flag

Costume designer: Yee Chung-man

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alicentes · 4 months

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Hunter Schafer in Euphoria | 2019

Jacob Elordi in Saltburn | 2023

#i thought of this paralell as soon as i saw him in that costume and evem the lighting is the same #jacob elordi #hunter shafer #saltburn #euphoria #i love the 1996 juliet inspired costumes #even though jacob is meant to be a midsummers night dream xharacter #i like to pretend he mixed up his shakespeares and went as angel juliet lmao

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avelera · 2 years

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I'm fairly certain Hob Gadling's actor, Ferdinand Kingsley, was named after a Shakespeare character, and know for a fact from his interviews that his mother was a Shakespeare director, she met his father while directing a Shakespeare play, and Ferdinand grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's hometown before he went on to be trained in the Shakespearean tradition.

So the fact the fandom has headcanoned that Hob hates Shakespeare ever since the pasty little twink stole Dream's attention away in 1589 is objectively very funny.

#ferdinand kingsley #hob gadling #the sandman #he also said the 1589 costume was his favorite in an interview probably because of the Shakespeare background #and you can find some cool monologues he did like Hamlet's To Be speech

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