Last edited by Russell_Street (2008-06-02 05:37:05)

I couldn't watch more than a minute of it.  I saw Annie Hall maybe once or twice and I know that I'm supposed to admire Allen's films, but I can't bear that clip.  Did RL do KEaton's gear?  I can't stand that look.  She's kept it up though, eh?

Is this man Trad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxlfvI17oY&feature=related

Shall we?

- Love Story, 1970, Botany 500. The style as it was presented then. You can Google clips. Some scenes are Ivy & therefore The Trad can claim them as their own. Some bust da curriculum's ass wide open.

It's a dire film. Don't watch it sober.

It's post Ivy & Pre-Preppy again and in '70 it is different once more to '77's Annie Hall.

I won't include Dead Poet's Soc. or anything by Whit Stilman in this filmic aspect to our timeline as they were all just costume and well after the event, no matter how pretty you might find them. They lack the sartorial sociological aspect that Love Story & Annie Hall both have. They were retrospective looks at the style being set in earlier decades, not current representations of their times. Their only use is in gauging the tenor of Preppy nostalgia in the years of their production. They do have value to Trad though as Trad is nostalgic through & through it would seem, but their value beyond nostalgia is highly questionable. They may very well be well researched, but they are not the clothes of the years of their production unlike LS & AH.

Jim.

Last edited by Russell_Street (2008-06-05 06:54:37)

Animal House is a film I won't mention either.
Great wardrobe - But it is pure (and often wonderful) costume put together after the event. 1978 playing at being 1962. All it tells you is how 1962 was seen in 1978.

It's a secondary source.

Like Stillman's schtick you can love it, but all you are loving is a fantasy presentation of the past.

J.

Yup. I watched it again this morning!