{"id":36881,"date":"2022-07-07T19:06:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T02:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=36881"},"modified":"2022-11-22T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T03:00:41","slug":"how-costumes-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/how-costumes-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"How Costumes Mean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently finished a brief course on fairy tales and one of the recurring motifs was how changing clothes signals a change in identity or perceived identity, and it was fun to see that same idea coming up as fashion historians and costume designers talk about how they approach costuming for crime films (especially villains).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dressed to Kill: Film, Crime and Fashion | Follow the Thread\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W0hBvuNqOV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently finished a brief course on fairy tales and one of the recurring motifs was how changing clothes signals a change in identity or perceived identity, and it was fun to see that same idea coming up as fashion historians and costume designers talk about how they approach costuming for crime films (especially villains).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3315,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33359,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/the-story-of-film-on-tcm-chapter-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":36881,"position":0},"title":"The Story of Film on TCM: Chapter 10","author":"Jandy","date":"November 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"[Turner Classic Movies is airing Mark Cousins' epic documentary The Story of Film, playing one episode a week accompanied by films discussed in that week's episode. 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