January 26, 2001
Dressed to Impress
In the women's film class I teach, we discuss fashion as symbol and sign. Spectacle, I tell my students, isn't limited to Gladiator; consider the butterflies on Bette Davis's cape in Now, Voyager, or the hat that she wears -- a rakishly tilted cartwheel affair, roughly the size of the Titanic -- in her first appearance on her life-changing ocean cruise. An outfit, we agree, is often more important than the male lead: Compare, for example, Audrey Hepburn's sheath in Breakfast at Tiffany's to
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