Stated outfit, in fact, echoed her on-screen fashion as Annie, whose “rueful, Chaplinesque, baggy-pants-and-vest look” struck a chord with a whole technology eager to depart behind the “wealthy hippy” really feel of the late ’60s, as Vogue put it. The important thing to reaching the aesthetic? In a phrase: classic.
“Even earlier than the emergence of the Annie Corridor fashion, the recognition of thrift store garments had hit the streets,” this journal famous in an August 1978 interview with the movie’s costume designer Ruth Morley. “Ethel Scull made the papers in New York a number of years again when she appeared at a gathering of swells in a real ESSO workman’s coverall, and rock stars had popularized the marginally schizophrenic garb of cast-offs from different milieux. Life on the whole have grown much less formal by quantum leaps, and individuality in clothes appears to be a badge for that by-now clichéd adage to ‘do your individual factor.’ Ladies’s hard-won independence is mirrored by their seek for extra private and fewer dictatorial types.”
For her half, Keaton had been a devotee of Goodwill because the early ’60s, calling its LA branches her “sanctuary” as a teen. “Mother taught my sister Dorrie and me to rummage for the perfect and alter if wanted,” she wrote in Vogue First. “Another person’s junk was now our excellent treasure. As soon as dwelling, we might put collectively outfits for the remainder of the day, whereas discussing once we would return to the Goodwill.” Earlier than she had even left Santa Ana School for Manhattan, she had developed her distinctive style—as evidenced by her request to put on a bowler hat to her promenade. “My mom mentioned, ‘Perhaps one other time, Diane.’”
Right here, Vogue appears again on the star’s most memorable early style moments.
