The Traveling Toe

The Traveling Toe

Saturday, July 21, 2018

"Cut! Costume And The Cinema" exhibit at Arlington Museum of Art


Here in North Texas, the Summer heat as descended upon us as in triple digits.  So we leave our air conditioned houses to drive in our air conditioned and to somewhere that the air conditiong is working.  So, Dear Friend and The Travelling Toe found the current exhibit at the Arlington Museum of Art to be the place where there is fun and nice air conditioning.

The exhibit is explained as follows in the museum brocheure"


Discover the glamour, luxury and artistry of cinematic courture.  This exhibit allows you to step onto the movie set with 43 costumes from 27 period films.  Covering five cinturies of histoyr, intrigue and comedy, the exhibition will revewal how the costumers set the scene and establihs authenticity.  Each piece was specifically crafted to provude cluse about the character's status, age class and weath. Some highlights hincluded Johnny Deppe's costume from "Pirates of the caribbean, pieces from the Xostume Academy Award winner, "The Cuchess" and Emmy Rossum's gown from "The Ohantom of the Opera".  

Photos were allowed so this will be a long post so Dear Readers you can take a gander at all these interesting and beautiful costumers

It all starats with the underpinning!


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