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The Citizen's Companion isn't something I'm familiar with. Would either of you ladies have a link that might take me to more information and a subscription page?
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Oh you betcha! I just got a subscription this Christmas, and all you have to do is type in : citizenscompanion.com I believe that is all I did. OTherwise here is their number to order: 1-800-624-0281. One year subs are $24, two year is $46. It really is geared toward the civilian re-enactor and the many aspects of the era that maybe we don't know about. They list all of their referances in the articles, and many are still available.
But I highly recommend the magazine. It comes out bi-monthly. The other one I enjoy is The Civil War Historian. Very good as well. Not as much millitary like the Civil War Times, and every issue they reprint an actual article from one of the period prints on ladies fashions, plus they include projects and instructions. Very cool.
Someone had tried to convince me once that older women only wore drab colors and no prints. I beleive these two woman (this and the next one) prove otherwise.
Another fashionable lady. I have seen this type of print in museum pieces and it was orange, reds, blues and soft greens. Very very pretty. Not real bright colors, more along the lines of earth tones, but very pretty.
Ladies, please don't laugh at my fashion ignorance, but I was wondering...Was Scarlett's dresses historically accurate in the movie? If so they were an example of beautiful color and style. Or, did the film makers take artistic license to make more beautiful clothing for the heroine than was actually available in the era?
Rose
__________________ "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names".--J.F.K.
The War Between the States established... This principle that the Federal Government is, through its courts, this final judge of its own powers.
-- Woodrow Wilson
Actually Rose, that's not a silly question, cause it's been a topic that has been questioned before. But in answer, yes, her dresses were accurate. David O'Selznick had George Cukor research all of the dresses to be as accurate as possible. The green picinic dress was more of an evening dinner dress or ball gown then what she wore it for. The dress she wears in the retreat from Atlanta is a very accurate day dress. They had around twelve to fifteen of those dresses made so that as Vivian Lee would tear it or get dirt on it, they would do the same thing to the rest of them so that they all aged together. By the "drapery" dress scene they actually turned the dress inside out to give it the most worn look possible.
The only dress that does not fit into the time frame of the movie is the "Red dress" for Ashley's birthday. It is way more 1880's-1890's in style, and his birthday party is not that far into the reconstruction ear to have been even remotely in style yet. They just wanted that dress for shock value. They do tend to bounce around in style of dress towards the end of the movie, for when I look at the dresses at the end of the movie now, one moment she is in the 1870's style blue velvet dress as the saw mill and the next she is in a hooped black morning dress after Bonnie's death. So at the end of the movie they are a little less accurate then at the begining.
The ball scene in Atlanta is a great scene for all the colorful ballgowns and to show the most wonderful mourning dresses on Melony and Scarlett. But they did do a great job in terms of getting the dresses accurate.
Thank you, Jenna. I have not seen the movie, "Gone With the Wind" in a few years (it's about time to see it again), but one dress I remember as being particularly attractive is the one she wore in the scene when Ashley is leaving after being home on a Christmas furlough. As I recall, the bodice is white with shirred fabric in strips about 2 or 3 inches wide and little narrow ribbon (probably velvet) between the strips. I think it is a burgundy ribbon, I really don't remember, but it was very unusual and pretty. I think it caught my eye because I sew and the technique used in that bodice was intriguing.
Rose
__________________ "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names".--J.F.K.
The War Between the States established... This principle that the Federal Government is, through its courts, this final judge of its own powers.
-- Woodrow Wilson
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