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Offline michael c

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wigs and falls
« on: April 08, 2006, 06:30:22 PM »
the show's costuming always has me on the edge of me seat.

i'm currently watching the 1970pt episodes.while the show could always get a bit heavy-handed with the hairpieces the hairdressing for kathryn leigh scott and lara parker was taken to breathtaking heights across the 1970 episodes.

we get curls.we get braids.we get towering updos.combined with the panty-grazing hemlines of the period an odd top-heavy silhouette is the effect.

needless to say joan bennett,grayson hall,alexandra motlke,lisa richards and clarice blackburn were no stangers to the piece but it was usually something static.something that defined the character's "look".here the hairdessers just seem to be having a party on the heads of maggie and angelique.

interestingly with the exception of the period wigs worn during some of the time travel stuff nancy barrett seems to have been spared from overly aggressive hairpiece use.carolyn always wears her own long,loose blond hair.

forget ohrbach's.the show's wig supplier deserves a credit. :P
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Re: wigs and falls
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2006, 06:36:49 PM »
I noticed that, in general, as the show went along and into the 1970's - makeup, hair and the whole bit got more elaborate. I was appalled at the obviousness of eye-shadow and cheek-rouge the men wore during 1897. Very creepy.