1990s

The Duchess of Bay Ridge

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2013 was a good year for films. “The Wolf of Wall Street” was absolutely crazy, balls to the walls and SO MUCH FUN. Scorsese’s exploration of excess has to be the crudest Best Picture nominee of all time. We got some of my favorites, Leo, Jonah and then newcomer Margot Robbie, who was so pitch perfect in this role and her career’s been on fire ever since.

Set in the 80s/90s she plays Wall Street extraordinaire Jordan Belfort’s (Leonardo DiCaprio) trophy wife, Naomi Lapaglia, the “Duchess of Bay Ridge”. The main requirement for the role was to be extremely hot which clearly Margot Robbie covers just by being Margot Robbie, but she also excels in the role and brings a lot of unexpected sadness to the character.

A high choker collar dress covered in pattern sequins. From the Fall 1991 Versace collection.

Her hair and makeup are always perfect, bombshell looks. And, being an EXTREMELY wealthy character, her clothing is top shelf extravagance.  “We had a brilliant costume designer who was very specific about using the original brands. She looked at the pictures of Nadine (the real-life Naomi) back in the day and sourced those brands from the specific year the scenes were filmed in. That’s how accurate it was. It was really awesome trying them all on and we used to do hours of fittings. It was so cool seeing vintage Chanel, Versace, Armani…” X

Two dresses that are pretty similar to each other is her pool pool party dress and her ‘nursery seduction’  pink dress. Both are skin tight and short ribbed bandage dresses. The blue, a Herve Leger, has a diamond shape cleavage cutout and she pairs it with sunglasses, a chained mini purse, heels and hot pink nails. The pink Azzedine Alaia dress is an off the shoulder sweater dress that she pairs with hot pink stilettos.

Another good look is the casual and very 90s black maxi dress. It has athletic white trim, high slits up the legs and gold chunky chain as the straps.

But what I would say is my favorite (Margot Robbie agrees) iconic 90s look is unfortunately only on screen for less than a minute. It’s a head to toe Versace jacket-skirt-boots look with gold medusa embellishments. Boots and jacket pictured above.

I also like how well she tries to match her surroundings. Her European yacht trip look is something she probably bought at some fancy boutique in Italy. I believe that this one is custom made.

For her first date with Jordan, she wears an awesome LBD with a t-shirt cut top thats sheer and black stripes. She pairs this one with big black earrings, black sheer tights and anklet heels. At the end of the night she only has on the second half of that outfit…

Lastly we have to talk about her wedding dress cause she looks like such a princess in it. Super 80s with the poofed back hair and hair accessories. GIANT tule skirt and a beaded off the shoulder top. Total Disney princess fantasy dress that’s so much fun!

Just leaving you with a photo of the most attractive onscreen couple of all time.

Tatum

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No, please don’t kill me, Mr. Ghostface, I wanna be in the sequel!

“Scream” was a big deal when it came out. It raised the horror genre from it’s grave, that in the 1990s, was as dead as a Michael Myers victim. Since its release there’s been lots of imitations, hell the “Scary Movie” franchise was born as a parody of this film, so it gets lost in the shuffle and sometimes not seen as particularly innovative. But it was a complete game changer at the time and still fucking rocks.

Horror legend Wes Craven directed the cast of mostly unknowns through one of the smartest and most self-aware horror films of all time. With lines like “Movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative,” if anything, this film is underrated.

And the characters are SO GOOD. There’s awesome dialog that’s super unique, along with great acting. We’re going to focus on Tatum (Badass Rose McGowan), cause she’s obviously the best character.

She’s the cool and snarky best friend of final girl Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and rocks some looks in her SPOILER: much too short screen time (RIP).

Tatum’s hair is a strawberry blonde color in the Rachael cut. Rose dyed her normally dark hair to differentiate from Neve in the film.

Let’s start with her first look. She wears a very Cher Horowitz like plaid mini with a short sleeved yellow ribbed turtleneck. She completes the outfit with white leather buckle booties. It’s a very 90s look and I love it.

Next up is her “Lolita tries out for the NFL” look. She wears red bootcut pants and a cropped jersey, probably a size 10 youth from Limited Too. She tops it off with pigtails, a zebra purse and a black belt. The shirt is based off of Johnny Depp’s character in another Wes Craven flick, “Nightmare on Elm Street,” so that’s another fun easter egg to the many that are scattered throughout this film.

Next, look at her cute sleepover jammies! I’m happy that I had veryyyy similar cloud pjs in the 90s. She also includes a on-trend big ole cloth scrunchie

Her final outfit is what she wears to the house party. Her shirt is a tight lime-green turtleneck and she rocks a psychedelic mini. Interestingly, it’s very similar to the skirt/shirt combo earlier.

I’m not sure if short sleeve turtlenecks are practical? Like what temperature do you wear them in? Either way they’re kinda cool and minis are always great. Here’s some links to create some great Tatum looks

Keywords- ribbed, short-sleeve turtleneck, plaid mini, cropped

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Turtlenecks- X X X X

The Worleys

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Today’s the the first post of what’s going to be a long running Tarantino appreciation tag. He’s my FAVORITE director and completely formative in my interest in film, I owe a lot to his work. We’re going to start out with a early film that he wrote but Tony Scott directed, 1993’s “True Romance.”

The film is a love story… Tarantino style. A call girl and an Elvis fanatic get married after a night together. They kill a pimp, steal his suitcase of cocaine and hit the road to LA, you know your usual romance story.

Alabama and Clarence Worley (Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater) styles scream trailer trash chic but more like if they were the bright pink lawn flamingos in the yard. Dripping in bright blues, pinks and reds and adorned in dollar store plastic sunglasses, they are hard to miss even while on the run.

Electric baby blue is Alabama’s color, she wears this and an occasional hot pink several times throughout the film. She’s also a big fan of animal print, including a cheetah coat, hot pink cheetah leggings and my favorite, a cow hide skirt. She looks crazy but she totally owns it.

Clarence’s color is red. His style is also really fun and colorful, I mean his main outfit is a hawaiian shirt and he rocks the tackiest gold glasses.

They’re wearing each other’s colors aww

Alright so obviously you’re obsessed with the costume design and now you’re wondering where you can also get a mini suitcase purse. Fear not, heres some items that you look so cool

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Animal print- X X X X X

Rollergirl

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So “Boogie Nights” is one of those films that if you say is one of your favorites you might get some strange looks or comments because of the subject matter, but it’s so darn good! In my opinion, there’s not a film that does a better job capturing the style of the seventies from retrospect. It’s also HILARIOUS with so many funny moments and lines. If you’re a super fan like me, there’s a great, um ‘oral history’ of the film here.

It also features a fantastic ensemble cast where each character is incredibly unique and memorable. I mean Burt Reynolds, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly and Luis Guzman. It’s wild. Although all the clothing is extremely fun, it’s late 1970s California after all, we’re going to focus on Heather Graham’s Rollergirl. Who I think is one of the more memorable characters and a bit of an icon for the film.

Link to a look at the other character’s costuming

Rollergirl is a bit younger and more naive then the other characters. She’s surrounded by “parent figures” and just seems a bit babied. I think this is reflected in her clothing, of course her outfits are still sexy but there’s definitely childlike elements to them. First things first, she NEVER takes off her skates, they’re her absolute signature. If you’re inspired to copy her style but don’t want to skate around all day, her knee-high striped tube socks would do.

For bottoms she wears lots of hot pants and high-waisted-barely-there shorts. Her tops are baby doll t-shirts or more of a halter top style.

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Her hair is worn pretty natural, beach waves with a occasional braid or two. Her makeup when she isn’t shooting is also pretty bare. Her other accessories besides her skates include a Polaroid camera, a walkman and yellow Lolita style heart sunglasses.

A lot of her casual pieces aren’t too far off from items that you can still find in stores today. But I’ve dug deep into some Seventies finds that would really put an outfit to the next level.

Search Keywords- 70s, terry, silk, hot pants, high waisted, halter, roller, ringer, baby doll shirt

Rompers/sets – X X X

Shorts- X X X

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