June 5 movie: Down With Love. I watched this with my folks while I was in Delaware. I've already written about it, so I'll just add that it was still funny, but this time I noticed how much the last half-hour drags. Basically everything after the big "I'm not really Zip Martin -- I'm not really Barbara Novak" reveal is anticlimactic. I seem to recall feeling the same way about Pillow Talk but they wrap it up more quickly there. Or at least it seems that way.
My dad and I had fun pointing out anachronisms in the fashion and interior design. The biggests oopses we noticed were the offices for Barbara's new magazine at the end (very late 60s design) and the nightclub near the beginning, with the girls wearing space-age outfits and hats that look like space helmets. Both fun designs, but totally out of place in a movie set in 1962.
The crazy thing is that I've seen a photo somewhere of actual models from the late 60s wearing space helmet hats just like the ones in that nightclub in the movie. But I can't remember where! I'm thinking Rudi Gernreich but I haven't been able to find it online. How frustrating.
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You weren't thinking of Pucci's flight attendant uniforms, were you?
http://www.braniffpages.com/1965/1965.html
(scroll to the middle of the page)
No, Pucci's "space bubble" is cool but not quite the same .. the hats in the nightclub scene in Down With Love are shaped like space helmets but sort of bell-shaped, not purely spherical. I posted on the mod_like_mad group on LJ, maybe someone there will remember.
It was great to meet you at Christa's!
you might be thinking of the designer courreges. he did a lot of avant-garde/space age stuff in the 60's.