Fashion (Turn to the Left)!: Movie Outfits You Love

[Wiendish Fitch]

In my not so humble opinion, no screen couple has ever pulled off his n' her G-strings as phenomenally as Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in Tarzan and His Mate (1934). Hot damn.

 

[Spartan Girl]

Pretty sexy even for back then!

In light of the announcement of a Carrie series (Mike Flanagan is good, so I’m curious), the one thing that is consistently good in all versions of the movie is that Carrie’s pink dress is absolutely beautiful.

1976

2002

2013

 

All versions of the dress are lovely, but I have a soft spot for the original 1976 gown, because that sleek sheath was a swan among those tacky frilly 70s prom fashions. 

Also, take that, Andy from Pretty in Pink, Carrie makes way better prom dresses than you!

Edited October 21, 2024 by Spartan Girl

[Wiendish Fitch]

 

16 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

Pretty sexy even for back then!

In light of the announcement of a Carrie series (Mike Flanagan is good, so I’m curious), the one thing that is consistently good in all versions of the movie is that Carrie’s pink dress is absolutely beautiful.

1976

2002

2013

 

All versions of the dress are lovely, but I have a soft spot for the original 1976 gown, because that sleek sheath was a swan among those tacky frilly 70s prom fashions. 

Also, take that, Andy from Pretty in Pink, Carrie makes way better prom dresses than you!

Dunking on Andie's prom dress will never get old!

And ITA about the 1976 version of Carrie's dress. I've said it before, I'll say it again: one could absolutely wear it today and receive compliments.  Light pink certainly isn't everyone's favorite color, but I think it's a color that looks good on nearly everyone. 

[Spartan Girl]

I’d kind of like it if the Mike Flanagan series changes the dress back to red like it originally was in the book. Stephen King described it as made of crushed red velvet with Juliet sleeves and a princess skirt. So…a different look than the movie pink gown, but one that could still look good.

[Palimelon]

I wonder if it was changed so that the pig blood would stand out more?

[Spartan Girl]

1 hour ago, Palimelon said:

I wonder if it was changed so that the pig blood would stand out more?

Yes that was why.

[Bastet]

On 10/21/2024 at 3:15 PM, Spartan Girl said:

All versions of the dress are lovely,

I've never seen the remakes.  I don't like that second one at all (or the shoes!) but I've always liked the original and the third one looks really nice, too.

[Spartan Girl]

15 hours ago, Bastet said:

I've never seen the remakes.  I don't like that second one at all (or the shoes!) but I've always liked the original and the third one looks really nice, too.

I’d argue that the second one is very much a homemade style dress and thus wouldn’t stick out in modern fashions, and as for the shoes, let’s remember that Carrie didn’t have a lot of money. I think they’re fine though.

[Palimelon]

The actress in the second movie (in that picture, anyway) looks like the answer to "What if Marcia Cross and Jennifer Garner had a baby together?".

[Bastet]

4 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

I’d argue that the second one is very much a homemade style dress and thus wouldn’t stick out in modern fashions, and as for the shoes, let’s remember that Carrie didn’t have a lot of money.

Okay.  I don't like them, is all I said.

[Wiendish Fitch]

Cinderella (2021) was absolute trash, but Minnie Driver's ensemble at the ball wasn't! I have to say, she easily outshone Camilla Cabello!

[Palimelon]

That actress behind her reminds me of Maisie Williams and her facial expression is saying she is about to go all Arya on Minnie's ass ("Should I use her own tiara to kill her or choke her with parts of her own outfit?").

Edited October 27, 2024 by Palimelon

[Wiendish Fitch]

I griped about the awful bonnets in 1940's Pride and Prejudice in the Fashion Don'ts thread, but here's an example of a bonnet done right: Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) in Gone with the Wind: just the right size, frames and flatters her face, cute little lacy detail, and completed with that pretty pink ribbon. A+, Walter Plunkett!!

[Wiendish Fitch]

Ginger Rogers's "Let's Face the Music and Dance" dress from Follow the Fleet has been living rent free in my head lately. It's one of those dresses that shouldn't work, but does. The fur collar is not my thing, but Rogers pulls it off well, and I love the neck to toe sparkles, form-hugging fit, and the bell sleeves (which allegedly smacked Fred Astaire in the face all the time). 

Edited November 1, 2024 by Wiendish Fitch

[Bastet]

I like that one, other than the fur, if for no other reason than it doesn't look horribly uncomfortable like most of the dresses posted here.

[Wiendish Fitch]

Yeah, At Long Last Love (1975) is a legendary bomb, but at least the wardrobe is something to look at, especially Cybill Shepherd (center)'s ensemble here. The feathered hat is too snazzy, and who else is coveting those two-toned pumps?

[Spartan Girl]

 Aladdin: I really do have a soft spot for the violet dress Jasmine wears

She briefly wears it again in the TV series, and I can’t understand why her wedding dress in the third movie didn’t have that kind of neckline instead of those damn shoulder pads? It would have made it look so much prettier.

[Wiendish Fitch]

She primarily wore animal skin shifts (and, in one film, a scandalous two piece), but Maureen O'Sullivan's Jane got to sport some cute, "civilized" outfits in the Tarzan series.

[tearknee]

I'd wear AG's:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029844/mediaviewer/rm2956120065/

[Wiendish Fitch]

 

Just a few of the fabulous costumes from my all time favorite, Singin' in the Rain. Was there anything Walter Plunkett couldn't do??

[Browncoat]

That emerald green dress was absolutely perfect for that scene.  

[Wiendish Fitch]

If I could find it, afford it, and pull it off as well as Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932), I would get this tux and top hat combo in a hot second.

[Wiendish Fitch]

Scarlett O'Hara got all the good lines, moments, and outfits... but at least Melanie wasn't completely chopped liver and got to wear this lovely blue dress at Scarlett's first wedding.

No, bows and puffed sleeves aren't everyone's cup of tea, but Olivia de Havilland wears the hell out of them (and, wow, she looks beautiful in that shade of blue). She would later reveal that the dress's hoop had to be removed so she could move around in the scene better.

[Wiendish Fitch]

Is it dumb my favorite outfit of Elle's in Legally Blonde is her cloud bathrobe? Cloud motif sleepwear is one of the very few trends from the early 2000s that I miss.

[Wiendish Fitch]

Never mind

 

Edited February 7 by Wiendish Fitch

[Wiendish Fitch]

Kim Novak's grey suit is so right for the character of Madeleine in Vertigo. The grey washes her out, and the suit is form-fitting, but looks more binding than sexy... and that's entirely the point. Given her situation, she's more of a ghost than a person, trapped in emptiness. 

Interestingly, Novak had the unmitigated temerity to say to designer Edith Head the first day she met her,

"I don't wear suits, and I don't wear grey."

The moral of the story is...

You wear whatever Edith Head puts on you without question or complaint!

Edited February 14 by Wiendish Fitch

[Trini]

On 12/19/2024 at 8:11 PM, Spartan Girl said:

 Aladdin: I really do have a soft spot for the violet dress Jasmine wears

She briefly wears it again in the TV series, and I can’t understand why her wedding dress in the third movie didn’t have that kind of neckline instead of those damn shoulder pads? It would have made it look so much prettier.

It's definitely one of her better outfits!

Look, I love Jasmine; she's one of my top Disney Princesses, but that aquamarine two-piece was always questionable.

[tearknee]

Bridgette Andersen's as Gretel (but i was a kid back then)

[Wiendish Fitch]

On 2/17/2025 at 7:37 PM, Trini said:

It's definitely one of her better outfits!

Look, I love Jasmine; she's one of my top Disney Princesses, but that aquamarine two-piece was always questionable.

I have no idea who designed Jasmine's trademark outfit, but I'm willing to bet their only frame of reference was I Dream of Jeannie. 

*Sigh*.

Oh well. 

Moving along, here's a publicity still of Cyd Charisse from Meet Me in Las Vegas, proof once again that she wore emerald green better than I ever will.

*Another sigh*

Oh well.

Edited Yest. at 08:12 PM by Wiendish Fitch