One Dress a Day Challenge
July: Blue Redux (+ Green Redux)
Vanity Fair / Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp
In this scene, Becky discovers that she is bankrupt, nearly has all her possessions seized, and accepts money from a nobleman to pay her bills, getting into an even worse sort of debt.
There's a great writeup of the costumes for this movie at the Costume Vault blog, here. I'll quote a significant passage: "Color wise the designs for Becky center around a very simple idea: the base color for her is red, and depending on her social and emotional state her dresses have more or less red in them. The happier and more comfortable she is, the more red is included within the costume. However, when she is drifting away from her goals or plainly unhappy, her dresses go to darker and grimmer colors." So here, you can see that she is not doing particularly well, being dressed almost entirely in blue--but there is just a thread of red going through it to show that there is still a tiny bit of hope, perhaps.
Her necklace, much like the one worn with her red ball gown, resembles a chain. This is almost certainly also symbolic!
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Lindsay Lohan photographed by Mark Seliger for Vanity Fair Magazine, June 2004.
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THROWBACK: Taylor on Vanity Fair from August 2004.
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Coeli's picks: Green, part 2
Multiple movies listed left to right.
One Dress a Day Challenge
July: Green Redux (+ Blue Redux)
My Fair Lady (1964) / Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle
Oklahoma! (1955) / Gloria Grahame as Ado Annie
The Muppet Show / Gladys Knight as Herself
Riverdale / Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom
"On Riverdale, the character Cheryl Blossom wears a lot of green (goes well with her vivid red hair). This is my favorite."
Heathers (1988) / Shannon Doherty as Heather Duke
"In Heathers, the Heathers are color-coded. Heather Duke wears green. This is perhaps her most iconic outfit."
Anne Boleyn / as Anne Boleyn
"A recent miniseries about Anne Boleyn had a really striking green dress (and race-blind casting)."
Allied (2016) / Marion Cotillard as Marianne Beauséjour
Frida (2002) / Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo
Vanity Fair (20014) / Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp
(I featured a different costume from this movie, here. Note the "red ribbon of hope" on the coat!)
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) / Michelle Yeoh as Mameha
Tut (2015) / Sibylla Deen as Ankhesenamun
Cobra Woman (1944) / Maria Montez as Naja
"This might only appear in the poster. It's worth looking at some of the other costumes though - quite dramatic!"
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Lindsay Lohan photographed by Mark Seliger for Vanity Fair Magazine, June 2004.
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