Feb 3, 2022
OH MY GOD I MISSED SNARK WEEK
SO MUCH GOOD SNARK TO READ
BEST WEEK OF THE YEAR!
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OH MY GOD I MISSED SNARK WEEK
SO MUCH GOOD SNARK TO READ
BEST WEEK OF THE YEAR!
Man Candy Monday is usually about hunky, hot boys who we gleefully objectify for their good looks. Turnabout is fair play in Frock Flicks world! But today, I’m MCM-ing a gent who I admire for…
Our occasional series about history’s most interesting people who have been overlooked by Hollywood. See also our articles about scientists, queer people, writers, artists, Renaissance women, Medie…
In ye olden times, a global pandemic wasn’t the only thing that made travel hazardous or complicated. Before jet planes or, hey, women’s suffrage, world travel was a super exclusive club. Which makes the few women who did journey far from their places of origin all that much more fascinating. So here are five female travelers whose stories I think would make fantastic fodder for film or TV. Hollywood, BBC, Netflix, et. al., take note!
Jeanne Baret (July 27, 1740 – August 5, 1807)
The first woman who completed a circumnavigation of the globe by ship, Jeanne Baret did so disguised as a man and worked as an assistant botanist on Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s colonial expedition of 1766–1769. She accompanied the ship’s naturalist, Philibert Commerçon, and while not married, the two had a child together in 1764. Commerçon was ill during the voyage, and Baret nursed him while collecting and cataloging plants on shore. The pair left the expedition on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, amid scandal on the ship when the crew learned Baret really was a woman. Baret and Commerçon lived on Mauritius until Commerçon’s death in 1773, although Baret was independently granted property in 1770. Jeanne later earned her own small fortune by running a tavern, then married a French officer and returned to France around 1775. A species of flowering shrub, Solanum baretiae, is named in her honor, but how about a frock flick?
To be honest I am disappointed that the Bugsy Malone genre of 'kids ages 8-14 perform in drama as adult characters with excellent costumes and set designs but central objects are replaced by equivalent toys' never became a thing. I so, so want to see a grand historical drama played by children in impeccably detailed period costumes, but riding around on stick horses, blow bubble pibes in the drawing room, and has a heartfelt monologue about the death of a first wife delivered from the mouth of a cherubic nine year old with a drawn on moustache.
Frock Flicks is in solidarity with IATSE
We know Frock Flicks is often considered to be at odds with the filmmaking community due to our seemingly relentless crusade against crappy costuming in historical film and television, but the truth is that we have a lot of respect for the people behind the scenes who don’t call the shots, who do the grueling... Read more → from Frock Flicks https://ift.tt/2XYdqEP via IFTTT
When we talk about recycled costumes in frock flicks, that’s usually because the outfits have come from one of the big rental houses. In Hollywood, Western Costume is the go-to, in Italy, it’s Tirelli, and in the U.K., there’s Cosprop and Angels Costumes. Of these, Angels calls itself ‘the largest privately owned collection of costume... Read more →
No update this week or next weekend, as I am busy with work and traveling, but please do check out this wonderful article from Frock Flicks, for a behind the scenes tour of the largest costume house in the world, Angels Costumier. We’ve spoken a lot about Angels here at Recycled Movie Costumes, so please check it out, as it is very relevant and may answer many of your costume-related questions. Be sure to also thank the lovely ladies at Frock Flicks who work so hard to consistently put out excellent content five days a week.
I’ve been noodling around on the idea of this post for three years (according to our Word Press history) because it’s such a common trope in frock flicks, and I wanted to put some good,…
Promotional materials for Impromptu (1991)