Costumes

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MONTAGE (ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE): GLITTER KIDS – 1972

... It appears today's youngsters have fashioned a whole new bent on the so-called sexual liberation of the flower-power set.

Costume designer Sandy Powell was a teenager in London in 1974 and made a lot of her own clothes, a look she gave the kids in the film, glamming their regular clothes up on a budget. "It was a homemade look, which I incorporated into my designs for the film. A lot of people criticized it, saying it wasn't really like that. But I thought, 'Well maybe it wasn't in your world, but it was in mine.' "

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DIY

[velvetspur.livejournal.com]

She's right! Back in them thar days it was homemade, before Vogue, etc., glommed onto the high fashion aspect of the glam look, and it became no longer an expression of one's own inner velvet.

As for me, in 1969 I flounced around HS with a red poppy-patterned silk tie woven into my waist-length hair, wearing a girl scout uniform intended for a 2nd grader, black tights, high clunky heeled mary-janes (truely!!), red lipstick, Twiggy-painted eyelashes, top and bottem lid, and strings of colored wooden beads earned by myself as a campfire girl years before. Nothing that showed up in fashion magazines later as officially and commercially Glam can top that, believe me.

Varda Mistress Bona!

[vardathemessage.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you have a picture of that? I agree with you, of course. The little details regarding the way the kids were dressed were true to me. My pal had a near exact copy of that rather unfortunate plaid jacket that Arthur wears. There was a revival of the styles of the 30's and 40's, in general, so you couldn't buy a pair of trousers that weren't high waisted and those cropped "Eisenhower" jackets were everywhere. Things like the little rhinestone star pins, the red cherry pins and rainbow designs were very popular. You might beg your dad for his old 'tuxedo scarf', a usually white fringed silk scarf that men would wear when all dolled up for those dates with mom before you were born. And if you were lucky your mom, aunt or even grandma had a pair of platform ankle straps made popular by Carmen Miranda or Joan Crawford stashed away somewhere.

I supposed the DIY phenomenon holds true for punk today, you can get the t-shirt at the mall, but a vintage Ramones or Clash one from your dad has more cachet. (Just don't tell anyone where you got it.)

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[fujinsama.livejournal.com]

Years later commenting here, but I would LOVE to see a picture of that as well.

Re: DIY

[vardathemessage.livejournal.com]

Oh I agree but I doubt she has any, drat.