Deja Vu

[sarahbellem]

This is specifically for Trystan, but I thought I'd toss it out here since we referenced this in the podcast:

I think this portrait was the inspiration for the blackworked sleeves gown you liked in Eliazabeth.

Oh, and here's Elizabeth's sleeves on her mother in The Tudors.

It's always interesting to see costumes crop up in different movies. ;

Comments

[padawansguide]

FYI, we've been finding lots of reused costumes lately - people have been sending them in to me!

http://costumersguide.com/reused.shtml

Here are the Tudor/Elizabethan ones:

http://costumersguide.com/reused_tudor.shtml

:-)

[sarahbellem]

Thanks, Maggie! It's definitely a good study in how to properly fit costumes, considering they took costumes that were obviously custom made for one actress and just stuck them on another actress without regard to differences in size.

I'd imagine it would be hard to fit into something made for Cate Blanchet, though... That woman had to have a 22" waist in Elizabeth!

[padawansguide]

Yes - I wonder how much they have to fit the costumes on the next actress to come along. Cate is tiny - you should have seen her costumes from The Good German at FIDM - they were impossibly small in the waist.

They did use Cate's blue gown from Elizabeth on The Tudors on Anne though - it's on that page I linked. I wonder if it was laced in the back or something and could be adjusted?

[sarahbellem]

BTW, did that yellow gown w/ black velvet partlet ever make it into Elizabeth? I recognized it from the the still, but now that I think about it, I can't recall the yellow dress in the movie. Could have been the cosmo, though... ;)