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The people in charge of wardrobe should be FIRED!!!!!

posted 16 years ago by New_York_Gal
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Honestly!! All the clothes for all the key characters (plus minor background characters, as well) DID NOT look like clothes from the early 80s!!! The wardrobe people didn't even so much as even BOTHER to scour the earth for appropriate 1980s clothing!! These wardrobe people just rounded up some clothes from the mid- to late 90s and said, "Uh, here, put these on, no one will notice the difference."

I'm very disappointed with this one aspect of the film!!!! VERY DISAPPOINTED!!!!! (For shame, for shame!!)

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[–] thbryn 16 years ago

That's pretty funny. Maybe Stillman wanted his crew's dress to be a cut above the normal NY disco geek. Or he thought lousy cloths would make the viewers sick.

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[–] james_age 10 years ago

Couldn't agree more. The attire & hair styles are extraordinarily wrong for the early '80's. Just terrible. I'd rather they went over the top as opposed to what they actually did, which was probably what the OP suggested.

[–] b0sendorfer 10 years ago

It really was terrible.

[–] jharmon64 10 years ago

I had more issues with the hair/makeup than the clothes.

But you're right, the clothes were off some too.

[–] johnston.scot 10 years ago

The guys' clothes are dead-on accurate for who they are. They're not John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever," they're upper middle class Ivy-and-the-like college graduates. That's exactly what they would have worn in 1981 or so (the year I graduated from college, incidentally).

The women's clothes (and hairstyles, etc.) are kind of out of my area of expertise. But, to my inexpert eye, they didn't seem out of place either.

[–] FawnOmatic 8 years ago

Kate Bs clothes and hair did not fit the era.
She looked absolutely mid 90s, to me.
Chloe seemed to be styled most appropriately for the era but she wasn't spot on.
The other girl roommate (don't remember her name) she looked pretty 90s most of the time, as well.

The guys, I agree with you. Taking into consideration their class, I think they looked alright. Maybe a few more mustaches but otherwise fine.

[–] HowYaLikeDemApplesWill 8 years ago

Nah, not really. There were a lot more characters than the main two cats, and even seeing men dressed in suits as they are walking down the streets, you don't see any of the suits that would have been prevalent in that era...baggier cut, big lapels, shinier-sheen material, lots of pinstripes, double-breasted, etc...

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[–] adresher-1 8 years ago

HAHA! Yeah, as someone who is from NYC and went to clubs before they were ruined by bottle service I laughed at what the guys were wearing. While, Des who worked at the club was appropriately dressed, the other guy's outfits were something you would wear to have drinks after work at a bar. Any doorman would have laughed at any guy wearing a sweater trying to get into a club. They also would never let in anyone with his tie down like they are loosening up after getting off work.

The women would have been let in though.

[–] sized-2 7 years ago

Yep, ties too fat, collars too. Hair all wrong.

[–] BourbonKing (5612) 5 years ago

The hair styles and the lack of facial hair on the men ruined the authenticity. All the attire and set design people had to do was rent "Endless Love", "Arthur", "Ordinary People" and "Being There" to get just a taste of how upper class white youth portrayed themselves while out in public. Heck throw in a few late 70s/early 80s Woody Allen flicks too.