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SPLAIN · 01-27-2003, 03:58 PM

The Forrest Tucker one was the long flowing one with beeds, i like flashy, i'm a Leo like Lucy. You're right about the Van Johnson one, she wore a similar number to the Radio City Music Hall opening of Trailer, and the Ed Sullivan tribute also. I always thought being a former model, she didn't spend too much time getting clothes, maybe that's why she often wore the same things, and also wound up on Mr Blackwell's worst dressed list a few times in teh sixties!

JaneTVFan · 01-28-2003, 03:33 AM

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Originally posted by SPLAIN
The Forrest Tucker one was the long flowing one with beeds, i like flashy, i'm a Leo like Lucy. You're right about the Van Johnson one, she wore a similar number to the Radio City Music Hall opening of Trailer, and the Ed Sullivan tribute also. I always thought being a former model, she didn't spend too much time getting clothes, maybe that's why she often wore the same things, and also wound up on Mr Blackwell's worst dressed list a few times in teh sixties!

I've never understood why anyone gives a rip about this Mr. Blackwell's opinion. How did he get this clout?

SPLAIN · 01-28-2003, 12:27 PM

I't s a gimmick like everything else, he became famous, not for his designs, but for a list that disses people, his new list came out a few weeks ago. Everybody noticed that it's only the hottest people that make his list, to have more of an impact, so back in the 60's, there were no bigger stars than Lucy or Liz Taylor, and as they weren't the best dressed to begin with, he picked on them to get publicity!

JaneTVFan · 02-02-2003, 04:34 AM

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Originally posted by SPLAIN
I't s a gimmick like everything else, he became famous, not for his designs, but for a list that disses people, his new list came out a few weeks ago. Everybody noticed that it's only the hottest people that make his list, to have more of an impact, so back in the 60's, there were no bigger stars than Lucy or Liz Taylor, and as they weren't the best dressed to begin with, he picked on them to get publicity!

Lucy wore fabulous clothes, until Gary Morton came along. He got her wearing all those gowns and boas that made her look uppity and pretentious.

SPLAIN · 02-03-2003, 10:54 AM

You know, i was flabbergasted when i heard that, then again, don't know why i'm surprised, he was the Marty Melcher of her career. She looked great in the early sisties when she had some Edith Head numbers during Critic's Choice, lousy movie but sophisticated clothes.

JaneTVFan · 02-04-2003, 03:42 AM

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Originally posted by SPLAIN
You know, i was flabbergasted when i heard that, then again, don't know why i'm surprised, he was the Marty Melcher of her career. She looked great in the early sisties when she had some Edith Head numbers during Critic's Choice, lousy movie but sophisticated clothes.

I'm not talking about what she wore in her movies and on her TV shows when she was in character, I mean the clothes she wore when she was supposedly being Lucille Ball, Star of the Universe, like when she made personal appearances, or special guest appearances on talk shows, or variety shows (like those Bob Hope specials) or on awards shows. Or like that diamond, high collar deal she had on in the opening credits of Here's Lucy, or the boas she wore in the opening of The Lucy Show. Look back at the clothes she wore back in the '50s when she made similar guest appearances (Ed Sullivan, for example, or What's My Line?). Her clothes were attractive and fashionable, yet down-to-earth. Back in those days, her clothes reflected good taste and didn't make her look like she was trying to show off or be above everybody. She was real when she was with Desi. Gary's influence made her less real.

SPLAIN · 02-04-2003, 10:56 AM

That's a hard one, because the clothes she wore on the shows are sometimes the same ones she wore in real life. The red dress in Yours mine and ours that the kids shorten she wore at the house all the time, the blue dress she married Fonda in was her actual wedding dress when she married Gary. She was always doing that. My theory is that being a former model and not liking wasting time with fittings and shopping, she always wore the same things over and over. On the ILL show, that made sense, as she wanted the character to reflect a normal housewife, only in the clothes, mind you. She stated so herself on a Mike Douglas show where she came out and modeled all these outfits. She said that whenever she had to go to a party, she would check her closets and say, a la Lucy, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO WEAR, BECAUSE she never had time to shop, always running the studio, doing the shows, taking care of her kids, house family and friends etc... I always wondered why she wore those gaudy outfits, and to me it makes sense that Gary would be involved, another thing he was not good at! Maybe she even thought that the outfits took the emphasis off her changing looks!

01-27-2003, 03:58 PM	#16
SPLAIN I Love Lucy Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 04, 2002 Location: MONTREAL, CANADA Posts: 4,563	The Forrest Tucker one was the long flowing one with beeds, i like flashy, i'm a Leo like Lucy. You're right about the Van Johnson one, she wore a similar number to the Radio City Music Hall opening of Trailer, and the Ed Sullivan tribute also. I always thought being a former model, she didn't spend too much time getting clothes, maybe that's why she often wore the same things, and also wound up on Mr Blackwell's worst dressed list a few times in teh sixties!

01-28-2003, 12:27 PM	#18
SPLAIN I Love Lucy Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 04, 2002 Location: MONTREAL, CANADA Posts: 4,563	I't s a gimmick like everything else, he became famous, not for his designs, but for a list that disses people, his new list came out a few weeks ago. Everybody noticed that it's only the hottest people that make his list, to have more of an impact, so back in the 60's, there were no bigger stars than Lucy or Liz Taylor, and as they weren't the best dressed to begin with, he picked on them to get publicity!

02-03-2003, 10:54 AM	#20
SPLAIN I Love Lucy Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 04, 2002 Location: MONTREAL, CANADA Posts: 4,563	You know, i was flabbergasted when i heard that, then again, don't know why i'm surprised, he was the Marty Melcher of her career. She looked great in the early sisties when she had some Edith Head numbers during Critic's Choice, lousy movie but sophisticated clothes.

02-04-2003, 10:56 AM	#22
SPLAIN I Love Lucy Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 04, 2002 Location: MONTREAL, CANADA Posts: 4,563	That's a hard one, because the clothes she wore on the shows are sometimes the same ones she wore in real life. The red dress in Yours mine and ours that the kids shorten she wore at the house all the time, the blue dress she married Fonda in was her actual wedding dress when she married Gary. She was always doing that. My theory is that being a former model and not liking wasting time with fittings and shopping, she always wore the same things over and over. On the ILL show, that made sense, as she wanted the character to reflect a normal housewife, only in the clothes, mind you. She stated so herself on a Mike Douglas show where she came out and modeled all these outfits. She said that whenever she had to go to a party, she would check her closets and say, a la Lucy, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO WEAR, BECAUSE she never had time to shop, always running the studio, doing the shows, taking care of her kids, house family and friends etc... I always wondered why she wore those gaudy outfits, and to me it makes sense that Gary would be involved, another thing he was not good at! Maybe she even thought that the outfits took the emphasis off her changing looks!