We talk about two pioneering women: the first female filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché and the writer, broadcaster, collector, costume designer, dress historian and curator Doris Langley Moore. See links below.
Pamela B. Green (director), Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3146022/
Marquise Lepage (director), Le Jardin oublié: La vie et l’oeuvre d’Alice Guy Blaché (1996): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113692/ and https://youtu.be/zli0mysaUeU
René Boca, ‘Nouvelles Brèves de la Cité: Alice Guy-Blaché, la 1re femme metteur en scene’, La Cité (Paris 1954): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9783739x/f25.image
Men, Women and Clothes (1957): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375606/ and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gp19b (sadly currently not available on this platform)
Men, Women and Clothes (1957) on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/6NA_opCjczE - How Fashions Come and Go
https://youtu.be/_n-BgDm55Uk – Sense and Nonsense in Fashion
https://youtu.be/qbG33X2j1L0 - Fashions in Faces and Figures
https://youtu.be/UGBsmyfSAjw - Formal Clothes
https://youtu.be/Hz-BXo7OjKY - Informal Clothes
https://youtu.be/j_ti9kDpzjo - Facing the Elements
Doris Langley Moore, ‘The Beginning of the Collection’, Costume, no. 4, supplement 1 (April 1970): https://doi.org/10.1179/cos.1970.4.Supplement-1.2
Penelope Byrde, ‘Doris Langley Moore, 1902-1989’, Costume no. 24 (1990): https://doi.org/10.1179/cos.1990.24.1.149
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899)
John Huston (director), Doris Langley Moore (costume design), The African Queen (1951): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/
Roger White, ‘Stella Mary Newton’, The Guardian (26 May 2001): https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/may/26/guardianobituaries.books
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