I need a pair of jodhpurs!
Actually, I need this whole outfit!
All posts tagged: Madge Bellamy
More of Madge’s monkey business
Remember last week’s post about Madge and her 17th century dress in the contemporary setting of 1932’s White Zombie? Well, in my search for images, I also found this picture of Madge: Wowzers! Va Va Voom! Those are some curves! Now compare it to another, more characteristic, image of Madge: Yeah… Something havey cavey is going on there. There is some serious padding and sculpture going on in the first photo. This fits in perfectly with my post on the 1903 corset, and Lauren’s comment on all the padding in the Truly Victorian pattern. It takes a lot of engineering to go from ’20s sylph to Camille Clifford’s rival!
Historical costuming monkey business
I’ve been watching White Zombie, the original ‘living dead’ film. Made in 1932 on a shoestring budget, it starred the newly famous Bela Lugosi as the zombie master and Madge Bellamy as the titular ‘white zombie’ who “filled his every desire” according to the movie tagline. Yes, this was definitely a pre-code film! Madge wears a series of fabulous ensembles: a tropical appropriate traveling outfit, a to-die-for wedding dress (pun intended), a quaintly old-fashioned frock, and a trailing 1930s does medieval shroud. The quaintly old-fashioned frock caught my attention. It looked so 17th century. I loved the idea of a 17th century inspired early 1930s dress. So I went looking for images of it. I found these: Isn’t that very 1920s does mid 17th century? The sleeves, the bows, the metal lace trim? I wonder what the full view looks like? How charming! How quaint! I had no idea that the 17th century was such a big influence in the 1920s! But wait…what’s this? That’s Madge Bellamy all right. And that’s definitely the same dress, …