more Scarlett O'Hara dresses... and a link!

This is my favorite Scarlett O'Hara dress... This is the dress that she wore to the Barbecue at the Wilkes home where she first met Rhett Butler... This dress definitely says "Garden Party"... to me... What do you think?

My second favorite dress is just called "The Ruffle Dress".. and it was the house dress Scarlett is wearing at the beginning of the movie... "house dress"... ya think?
and here is a link to the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center Web Exhibition to "Gone with the Wind, Costumes and Makeup"...

and as they say in Hollywood... "That's a wrap!"

"Tomorrow is another day...." down here in French Lique...

The curtain dress... part 2...

For your viewing pleasure...
You knew I'd find it didn't you... First... Miss Scarlett...




and now... Miss Burnett... (don't worry, the dress part occurs during the first four minutes... you won't have to watch all 9 minutes!) and how about that Miss Dinah Shore... I'd forgotten she was "Miss Mellie" in Carol Burnett's version...



Isn't Scarlett that Southern Gal we all have inside of us? I know that she's in me... Blissfully daydreaming about times gone by... down here in French Lique...

Did you know.... The Curtain Dress... Part 1

Did you know who the designer of Scarlett O'Hara's Curtain Dress was... Walter Plunkett. Ever heard of him... me neither... but there's more... much more...

Designed by Walter Plunkett, the Curtain Dress, symbol of Scarlett's will to survive, was worn in three scenes: the jail scene in which Scarlett asks Rhett for financial assistance, the scene in which Scarlett walks through the Atlanta streets with Mammy, and the scene in which Scarlett meets Frank Kennedy.

The dress had to suit the color of Vivien Leigh's eyes and it had to conform to Technicolor specifications. It also had to look as if it were made from the draperies at Tara. So the dress was aged as if the sun had faded the material.

This is Walter Plunkett with Vivian Leigh... nope... don't know him... now fast forward to the 1970's... ready?

Carol Burnett's parody of "Gone with the Wind" titled, "Went with the Wind"... in which she too had a curtain dress... curtain rod included. Now, who do you suppose designed Carol's curtain dress?

Yep... Bob Mackie... the Bob Mackie... We've heard of him now haven't we...

and now you know.... the rest of the story...

Just surfing oddities on the net... down here in French Lique...