{"id":1802,"date":"2011-09-26T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2011-09-25T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T21:47:24","slug":"advice-from-the-costume-designer-travis-banton-on-accuracy-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/advice-from-the-costume-designer-travis-banton-on-accuracy-1935\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice from the Costume Designer: Travis Banton on accuracy (1935)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinemalane.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/edith-head.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_QOFSeWNczR0\/SsbrBJKhodI\/AAAAAAAAAKA\/0bFjIbGtwqY\/s640\/clara+bow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clara Bow In &quot;IT&quot; 1927, costume designed by Travis Banton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I have said and repeat, my aim is for the legitimate. When a woman is required to dress for golf in a certain scene there is really no point in making her seem ready for a dance at the country club. When she is fitted with a bathing suit it should at least look suitable for water. Keeping this in mind,\u2026 I then muster new fashions which are the outcome of many trips to Paris, London and other points of fashion and modify and adjust them to the needs of the role.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Travis Banton quoted in Harrison, Helen. \u201cHollywood\u2019s Own Revolt,\u201d Screenland, March 1935, 33.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have said and repeat, my aim is for the legitimate. When a woman is required to dress for golf in a certain scene there is really no point in making her seem ready for a dance at the country club. When she is fitted with a bathing suit it should at least look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,94,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}