Fashion on the Silver Screen

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Have you ever wanted to dress like a TV character? Cartoon character even? Have you actually DONE so? Who wozzit? Did people point and laugh?

The real tester of this question is to find anyone who wanted to dress up as a radio character (ie someone from the Archers or er... Sandi Tosvig).

I shall start the ball rolling by saying I am currently after an outfit inspired by ARCH MENTALIST Romana from Dr Who and the City ov Death!

― Starry, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard that a young N. used to dress as Pat Sharp.

― Starry, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Silver screen is the cinema isn't it. Then what's TV? Who knows.

I do not want to dress as Leela from Dr Who. If I was a boy I like to think I would dress as Tom Baker.

I would also like to attempt some of Willow's fashion statements from S1 and 2 of Buffy but sadly I am not a cute stick insect. Shame.

The outfits in But I'm A Cheerleader are great too, but of course I'd think that.

― Starry, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Then what's TV?

the idiot box

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The omnidirectional sludgepump

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I had Mork braces. But we all did.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

How I wish I was sitting in front of the omnidirectional sludgepump right now. It is better than work. None of you like my thread. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (thats me poking out my tongue at you).

― Starry, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

But I confessed my Mork braces!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I *blushes* have a dress like Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls. But I've only worn it for Halloween, so I actually was one of the less conspicuous figures in the room.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

a friend of mine tells me I dress like the Evan character out of Secret Life Of Us. But that was not an aspiration I'd ever held

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember there being a car advert in about 1994/ 1995 where one of the shots was of a party. There was a girl in the crowd wearing a black satin slip dress with a black beret. I went out and bought them. I stil have both actually, although I wear the dress as a nightie now, it feels a bit insubstantial now that:

1) Slip dresses aren't what they were in the mid-nineties.
2) I am no longer 15.

Another teenage thing was a character in a Joanna Trollope adaptation. A wayward daughter in The Choir. God, mine are so lame, Joanna Trollope, bloody hell.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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I can't remember if it was in the book or the television adaptation but the Diana Quick character in Brideshead Revisted had a diamond (or diamante?) pin in the shape of an arrow. Very 20's. I held a similar pin in my hand for one brief sparkling moment in an antiques shop and then realized I would only lose it instantly so I put it down. I made the right decision, although I'd be lying if I said I never thought about that pin again.

I want to be Keanu Reeves in the Matrix. On my way back from LAX in January 2000 I stopped at a Starbucks and was wearing my rimless black sunglasses and black leather narrow 3/4 length coat from the Gap. A random guy in the parking lot pointed at me and said "The Matrix, right? Trinity?" Although I was going for Neo I was incredibly, incredibly pleased.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I dressed like Nora from Pump Up The Volume when in high school.

Now if I could dress like Grace Kelly in Rear Window I would be so delighted.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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In the Mood for Love was the last movie that really had me wondering why all people don't dress a certain way.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I inadvertently dressed like Blossom for a while as a teenager, but that's because I was a clueless dork.

There are many characters in television and film whose style I admire so much, but it never occurred to me to try to look like any of them. I'm so limited by what I look like it could only ever look pathetic and feeble.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahhh Nicole, you've just bought it back. A friend's father once told me I dressed like Six from Blossom. (I was 13)

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I really liked Phillip Seymour Hoffman's character's fashion in "The Talented Mr. Ripley"

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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