It turns out there will be another day for Scarlett O'Hara's green curtain dress. Many of them.
The iconic dress and Scarlett's burgundy ball gown from the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" have been saved from deterioration by a $30,000 conservation effort by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
The dresses worn by actress Vivien Leigh are on display for the first time in nearly 30 years at London's Victoria and Albert Museum as part of a Hollywood costume exhibit.
Ransom Center officials announced the project in 2010, noting the dresses were in danger of falling apart from age.
The dresses were made of heavy fabric and were not built to last. Weakened stitching and sagging waistlines had to be repaired and conservators also had to remove some previous alternation work and additions, such as feathers placed on the burgundy gown.
"All of those areas would have gotten worse. All the vulnerable parts have been stabilized," said Jill Morena, the Ransom Center's assistant curator for costumes and personal effects. "It has been a success. We would not be able to display them without this effort."
Morena stressed the project was not intended to restore the dresses to looking brand new, but to save them so they could be viewed by the public. For example,Discover the range of swim bikini with ASOS. the green dress has long faded streaks and conservators did not try to restore its original color.
The Ransom Center acquired the dresses with the collection of film producer David O. Selznick in the 1980s. Conservators wanted them ready in time for a 2014 Ransom Center exhibit to mark the film's 75th anniversary.Has anyone evert used the website www.onbridals.com?
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Other pieces, including a blue velvet night gown and Scarlett's wedding dress and veil, were too fragile to handle and will go back into storage.
"The wedding veil, once you touched the tulle you realized how brittle and fragile it is," Morena said.
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The exhibition will feature hats by the Australian-born milliner, Frederick Fox, whose designs have been worn by the Queen, the Queen Mother and Princess Diana.
They include a replica of the pink hat featuring 25 fabric bells which the Queen wore to a service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s in 1977 to mark her Silver Jubilee.
Michael Pick, a biographer of Hartnell and Amies and guest curator of the exhibition, said: “After the Second World War, society still went to Paris for their clothes, but the Queen gave confidence to British women to buy British designers.
“As a young, beautiful and photogenic woman in the 1950s and 1960s, she was a fashion leader and her circle and the wider public wanted to look like her.
“The consummate skills of Hartnell, Amies and Fox - seen worldwide through the patronage of the Royal family - helped to re-assert Britain’s reputation as an international centre for fashion.”
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