Bad repro looks

[Matt Deckard]

The sting

70's tie and hair in the 30's.

Early eighties in the late 50's

80's hair and suit cuts in the 30's

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

The anachronistic hair cut problem seems so blaringly common (even in WW2 movies up until recently) that there is no way it couldn't have been noticed by the studios. Either the stars had refused to get their hair cut properly, or else the studios decided that vintage hair cuts looked stupid and would turn off some of their potential audience I suppose.

 

[swinggal]

Man, watch the Glenn Miller story sometime starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. It was made in 1954 about' the 30s and 40's and all the women are wearing 50s full circle dresses and have short haircuts. It's weird! Even when they are portraying the 30s the womens clothing is wrong. A lot of movies made in the 50s get 30s and 40s fashion so wrong, or don't even try get it right at all.

 

[Feraud]

Westerns!
I think the Western film genre really kills repro looks! Westerns movies with the lead character tieless, with the top buttons of his shirt open and showing his chest. So bad!!
A lot of the clothes, haircuts and firearms in Western movies look to be the wrong cut, etc. for frontiersmen of the 1870's-80's.

 

[ITG]

The Linda Carter Wonder Woman series. Set around WW2, but with obvious 70s clothing (excluding the first pic):

 

[BellyTank]

Was TV Wonderwoman ALWAYS set in WW2? I seem to remember it in the present too... no?
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[ITG]

From what I've seen from the Season 1 DVDs those episodes are. I was so young when the episodes were on tv that I didn't pay attention to the era. Perhaps the producers/writers changed the setting in a later season while having Steve and Diana doing some sort of time travel that wasn't written into the show.

 

[Matt Deckard]

Actually I think the Nazi's in the show were a revival group and not from the 40's.

 

[BellyTank]

I thought it was like- Wonderwoman came to the rescue in WW2 and then continued in the present...? Just look at the pictures without the Nazis- nobody trying to look '40s.. very '70s indeed.
The contemporary present.
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[Matt Deckard]

Good News, based in 1927 though the dresses and womens' hair is right out of 1947

 

[ITG]

I'm not sure on that. Steve would have had to age alot.

 

[BellyTank]

I think it's his son maybe?
C'maan, check out the '70s sportswear and her glasses..

A Quote-
"The first season took place during World War II with Wonder Woman fighting the Nazis. The Second season updated the Wonder Woman mythos to modern times and a different network. The series only lasted three seasons but proved to be a pop-cultural hit thanks to reruns." this was from the 1st google hit-

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[Canadave]

M*A*S*H...love that 70s hair in the 50s.

David

 

[Biltmore Bob]

I married Linda Carter.

 

[BellyTank]

Nice avatar' BoB.
I married her first......
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[BellyTank]

M*A*S*H...love that 70s hair in the 50s.

David

...and the too-tight uniforms- and '60s uniforms.
Hotlips is forgiven.
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[ITG]

A Quote-
"The first season took place during World War II with Wonder Woman fighting the Nazis. The Second season updated the Wonder Woman mythos to modern times and a different network. The series only lasted three seasons but proved to be a pop-cultural hit thanks to reruns." this was from the 1st google hit-

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There, that answers the question then. Even in the first season though, the men's hair was way off kilter for the 1940s. I love the campy shows from the late 70s/early 80s. I'm watching the "Formula 407" episode from Season 1 right now and they had a group of bad guys that all had on 70s ish suits. Pretty bad.

 

[BellyTank]

I agree- it's fun...
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[El Jefe]

How do we feel about these guys?
Especially when so many elements of the show are obviously near and dear to our hearts??
I kind of get the feeling that a large percentage of us here, if given the choice of making a TV series based on anything in the world, would probably have chosen this one.
Whether it would have ended up better or worse, well, YM, naturally, MV...

 

[Flitcraft]

Ouch!!!!

Man, was that John Hillerman withthe monocle?
What's with the A2 jacket with handwarmers? Yikes!
A Samurai in full armor in the jungle??
Wow, what a mish-mash.
What the heck are those scenes from?