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marzipanandminutiae · 2 years ago

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director of The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): okay we need to costume both our puppets and humans in something festive and Victorian. but you know. no need to go crazy. it’s a kids’ movie, after all

costume designer, snorting a line of coke off an 1843 issue of Le Bon Ton fashion magazine: right, right

#muppet christmas carol #(the joke is that the costumes are SCRUPULOUSLY accurate for no reason at all)#like if I'm remembering the Abby Cox video correctly they copied a really specific type of smock popular with British working-men #of the day #for a costume Rizzo wears in one five-minute scene #drug use

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carpe-mamilia · 2 years ago

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#(the joke is that the costumes are SCRUPULOUSLY accurate for no reason at all) #like if I'm remembering the Abby Cox video correctly they copied a really specific type of smock popular with British working-men #of the day #for a costume Rizzo wears in one five-minute scene

costume designer, snorting a line of coke off an 1843 issue of Le Bon Ton fashion magazine: right, right

#smocking my beloved #specifically it was agricultural workers and fishermen who wore them and they started fading away from around the mid century #thomas hardy specifically bewailed their loss because he saw them as a symbol of rural identity #they were too voluminous to be worn with newfangled farming machinery and so agricultural workers started dressing more like city folk #anyway yeah goddamn those costumes are great #I looked up the designer Ann Holloway and she won multiple awards for her work on other shows #we stan a legend #muppet christmas carol

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