On Jan 2, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Sue Clemenger wrote:
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] movie costumes
In the one about Joseph, Potiphar and his wife look fantastic! If I
remember....she was in a sheer coral red crinkled gauze shift to
her feet
that had a
turquoise knitted over dress, very open in its working, that made
the
whole
thing appear like a coral and turquoise geometric patterned tube
that
clung
tightly to the body. The naked body showed thru the bright gauze
and the
open
work knitted shift had bits of gold bobbles worked into it...and
it ended
in
tied tassels at her ankles. She wore that familiar wig, like a
big hair
helmet
with hammered gold leaves that dangled and shimmered all over it.
The
dark
cole eyes and red lips....she looked like she stepped off a Pyramid
wall!
Not if what she was wearing was obviously knitted. That's a humongous
boo-boo, right there. Also, the color of the gown sounds really
wrong--is
there any evidence of linens being dyed in Egypt at that time?
--Sue
From the description, it sounds like it might have been inspired by
a surviving Egyptian "bead net" dress -- a very open network made of
threaded beads. The one I'm thinking of is basically a tubular
sheath with shoulder straps and at the bottom hem it has a "fringe"
of dangling flower-shaped beads. _Might_ -- I'd have to see the
original to know if the suspicion holds up. There's a rather dark
photograph of the item I'm thinking of about halfway down the page at:
http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/sexuality.html
Heather
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