research into women's makeup and costume in the 1950's

This image shows a dress that would have been worn by a classic woman in the 1950's - not a femme fatal character. The picture on the right is a picture found on the internet, whereas the picture on the left is of a similar dress which we have the option of using. Researching this has benefited as we are basing our title sequence in this time period, and costume is a very prevalent part of creating verisimilitude. 

These two dresses were both found on the internet, and convey dresses that a femme fatal character could wear in our film, as a femme fatal is a conventional character seen in a film noir. This research has helped me to think about the outfit worn by Simran - our femme fatal character, as she needs to appear sexy and dominant, which her costume will emphasize.




These two images show research done by Prada into makeup and costume worn by women in the 1950's, as this is when we have decided to base our title sequence, and know that we will have women in our title so therefore this research is important when it comes to giving our title sequence verisimilitude. Prada noticed several consistent factors of this time periods 'look', for example red lipstick was very in fashion at the time. From looking at this and Sin City, we have decided that our film should be film noir, but our femme fatal character will have bright red lips, signalling that she is dangerous, and staying with the time period.