Grace Kelly Fashion Inspiration

While poor Jimmy Stewart spends Rear Window in a pair of nice cotton jim jams, the camera can't take its eyes off Grace Kelly and her impeccable style.  With multi-oscar winning fashion designer Edith Head calling the shots, Grace Kelly's Lisa has become Hollywood fashion royalty.

Setting the tone from the start of the film, Grace looks like a princess in a monochrome two-piece.A sophisticated monochrome outfit will be in the same vein, but to really go all out, team a black v-neck evening top with a 50s style white chiffon swing skirt. Add white chiffon to a swing skirt or find an old second-hand wedding dress and wear a black top over it. Pick up black feathers in your local material shop, give them some sparkle spray and stitch (safety pin) them onto the waist and allow them to hang down. Finish with white gloves and pearls.

More demure but just as elegant, a pleated silk dress with chiffon shoulders and a black patent belt emphasising the waist. Add a chiffon throw and black patent belt to a calf-length black dress with a little bit of swing in the skirt. 

The essence of summer gorgeousness in a light floral pattern. Choose a floral dress with a cinched waist and a swing in the skirt. As long as there is enough material, you can add to the fullness of a skirt by wearing a petticoat underneath and waists can easily be tucked in with a neutral-colored belt.

A Parisian chic suit that also works as the perfect cocktail ensemble. Pair a pastel-colored pencil skirt with a cross over top. If you are crafty you can make the cross-over top with a scarf. If you don't have a cross-over top, halter necks will look just as good. Finish with a matching hat, gloves and pearls. Always finish with pearls.

Jimmy Stewart gets to spend the film in pjs, so if you want to wear your favorite night gown that's a.o.k with us.

Edith Head was also the costume designer on Grace's film To Catch a Thief.

James Stewart Fashion Inspiration

                        

While Grace Kelly struts past the camera in couture, poor Jimmy Stewart spends the majority of Rear Window in a neat and tidy pair of baby blue pyjamas. They are a fine pair of jim jams and match them with a leg cast and a pair of binoculars and voila you are L.B Jeffries. If this is your night for comfort so be it, but we would suggest taking inspiration from some of Jimmy's other roles.

                                 

                      Harvey 1950, Vertigo 1958, Anatomy of a Murder 1959

Jimmy always managed to look incredibly well put together and handsome with a fashion that matched his grown-up clean cut boy next door image. Ask Men refer to Jimmy as "Honest and upright, Stewart’s style followed in the same vein. He wasn’t as daring as Fred Astaire and couldn’t quite cut it against the sartorial superstar that Cary Grant had come to be. But, Stewart still managed to carve out his own space in history’s fashion files. His decent character was matched in suits with the classic gentleman’s fit and silhouette of the day: two-button jackets with side vents, peak lapels and hacking pockets. The extra-wide pointed peaks captured the essence of masculinity with a bold confidence that wasn’t cocky. It was all balanced below with the distinguished diagonal lines of hacking pockets -- two large ones on each side with a single, smaller ticket pocket that added an asymmetrical distinctiveness. It’s the look of a true man’s man, which is exactly the mark Stewart left on screen and in style".

Ask Men suggests that to get the Jimmy Stewart look you should go for an updated version of his peak lapel jacket. "The style triumphed in the post-Depression Era and reemerged briefly during the grossly greedy days of Wall Street in the ‘80s. Now, similarly tough times are witnessing their resurrection once again. However, this go-round they’re slimmer, to give wider builds a longer appearance while still providing the shape and definition super-skinny guys need. And if you really want to get serious, go for the double-breasted variety. Stewart would likely approve in the most modest way possible, of course".

Quotes from askmen.com/fashion

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Fatale transports you back to the summer of 1954 with Hitchcock thriller Rear Window

On Saturday 7th July, Film Fatale, Dublin’s most glamorous film event, will screen Hitchcock’s classic suspense thriller, Rear Window, in a night of cinema nostalgia and old–style Hollywood glamour that will transport the audience back to a 1950s summer for a night of film, vintage music, cocktails and dancing.

Before the film, Derby Browne will sing summer songs from the fifties to get the audience in the mood. The screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s beguiling thriller will be followed by a 1950s summer party mirroring the style of the film with Film Fatale’s resident DJs, The Andrews Sisters’ Brothers, playing music from the film’s era. The audience is invited to help set the scene by dressing up in their vintage finest, paying homage to 1950s or mirroring the stars of the film James Stewart or the stunning Grace Kelly.

Rear Window sees James Stewart as Manhattan photographer L.B. Jefferies, who is confined to his apartment with a broken leg and has nothing to do but to take up the art of spying.  During a summer heat wave Stewart lives vicariously through his neighbours’ lives and despite warnings from his beautiful girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) or his motherly nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) he gets in too deep when he spies a potential murder.

Sit back in the sumptuous surroundings of the Sugar Club, enjoy a classic signature cocktail designed especially for the night, have the Film Fatale usherettes serve you popcorn while watching one of Hitchcock’s most elegantly crafted tales of murder, mystery and suspense before you dance the night away.

Tickets €15  are available at entertainment.ie/tickets 

Doors open at 8pm                                                                                                                                   

After-party from 11pm with tickets at the door (€5).



For more information see facebook.com/filmfataleevents

About Film Fatale

Movie lovers, put on your glad rags and step back in time to a nostalgic night at the movies where you will immerse yourself in the world of your favourite classic films.

           

Film Fatale is a monthly film event that transports the audience back to the golden age of cinema through film, fashion, music and good old-fashioned fun. Screening the crème de la crème of classic films in the sumptuous surroundings of the Sugar Club, this night of cinema nostalgia and old-style Hollywood glamour mirrors the style of the films being screened.

Swing Dance

For those of you who can't make it to Film Fatale's screening of The Philadelphia Story, fear not: our  glamorous 1940's swing dance will be kicking off at 11pm.  

The Queens of The Music Machines, The Princesses of Patriotic Pop, Those Three Slick Chicks, the Singsational  Bugle Babes will kick things off from 11pm.  Ireland's own version of the 1940s chart toppers the Andrews Sisters will be singing the Billboard hits from the swing and jive era. Followed by resident DJ's, the awe-inspiring Andrews Sisters' Brothers who will have you dancing to a vibrant mix of vintage finest in swing, charleston, boogie-woogie, doo-wop, rock'n'roll with big band evergreens, upbeat jazz anthems and some of The Andrews Sisters too of course! 

 

Here's a taster:

1930s and 1940s hair

 1930s Hair 

                                                                       1940s hair

The Wild Royale

You can't have a screening of The Philadelphia Story without bubbly so The Sugar Club's cocktail maestro  extraordinaire has created a prosecco cocktail especially for the night.  The Wild Royale is an exquisite combination of house made wild Irish elderflower cordial and prosecco for €6. Yum!

The greatest screwball comedy of the 1940s, The Philadelphia Story is a tale of sex, class, bad manners and media intrusion. It features Katherine Hepburn who plays a socialite divorcee caught between flawed ex-husband Cary Grant and a respectable but somehow unsuitable fiance(John Howard). Throw disgruntled novelist-reporter Jimmy Stewart and his colleague and special lady-friend(Ruth Hussey) into the mix, add a few too many bottles of bubbly on the eve of the wedding and you have the makings of a great comic calamity. 

1940s fashion

1940s fashion for the everyday lady

Because of rationing, dresses and suits became slimmer with just enough fabric to be able to sit or walk. Skirts and dresses were knee-length. The most common color was "Air Force blue" and clothes had a sharp, almost military-like look. 

Many dresses hugged the waist, buttoned down the front, and were belted at the waist. Darts or gathers at the waist and shoulder were used, shaping full busts and keeping the waistline trim.

Because of the need to reduce the number of clothes items that people owned, and the need to use those clothes items throughout the year, American designers introduced the idea of separates and coordinating components. By mixing and matching different items, this gave the illusion of having more outfits than actually existed.

Evening dresses were often simple short dresses without too much decoration, but frilly short dresses were not uncommon. Funnily enough beads and sequins were never rationed so many ladies brightened up their outfits with abit of razzle dazzle.


                                            1940's fashion for the lady of means 

Rich socialite Tracy Lord(Katherine Hepburn) is not an everyday run of the mill kind of gal.  The rest of the world may have been rationing material but The Philadelphia Story see's Tracy runinng amuck with Dexter(Cary Grant) and Mick (James Stewart) in the finest clothing while drinking the finest champagne.  A lady of means wore full length dresses, leaving no material to spare and topped it off with some satin gloves and diamonds.

 

1940s Summer Dresses

Rich and poor, come summer time all ladies were wearing bright florals or light coloured dresses with bare arms and ankles.