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Well, for their roles anyway. blaugh

From The Dreamers, featuring Eva Green with a dish towel on her head. (It's a silly scene.)



Eva Green again, this time in Kingdom of Heaven.



Edward Norton, also in Kingdom of Heaven. Which is actually kind of a crap movie, but the costumes are amazing.



Off-screen shot of the film 8 Women, directed by the adorable and freakishly brilliant Francois Ozon, who is on the far right. (He's the love of my life. Seriously.)



Oscar Wilde in an amazing hat. *steals his hat*



Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, featuring Bosie's rather unattractive straw hat.



Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. It's not Jeeves and Wooster unless there are silly hats involved.



Hugo Weaving in V For Vendetta. 'Nuff said.




...Okay, I'll stop. I got a little over-enthusiastic.

i heart the kingdom of heaven costume.if i had access to materials like that i would dress like that minus the jewerally.

Isn't it gorgeous? They really did do an amazing job on the costumes.

Like he said...amazing biggrin
I thought the 2nd image was of Queen Esther.

i am going to be naughty and confess that i think alan rickman has the sexist voice ever.as does liam nelson.i dont have a tv but a friend of mine showed me pride and prejudice on video and alan rickman was on it.hearing his voice i felt redface .his voice is dark bitter chocolate and laim nelsons' is gravel.

Grace Kelly -- I think this is from "Roman Holiday," but don't quote me. Elegant, demure, and perfectly appropriate for Jewish or Muslim women:


First article on this page is about a celebrity under cover. Admittedly, it's Michael Jackson, and he's dressed as a bahraini woman would dress instead of as a man, but what can you do -- it's Michael Jackson. He doesn't know the same rules the rest of us live by. wink
http://www.channel3000.com/celebritychatter/6596997/detail.html

Though I'm having a hard time finding pictures of her, there is a Muslim supermodel out there who refuses to model any clothing that isn't modest by Islamic standards. She's very successful, especially in heavily-Muslim countries, and is beautiful. I've seen her picture, and she looks amazing in the modest, well-cut clothing she wears. I wish I could remember her name, or even her country of origin. She's living proof that those who adhere to their convictions can be successful in almost any business.

If Michael Jackson were a perfectly sane person, I'd assume he was being insulting. In his defense, he's not only widely known to be mentally/emotionally unbalanced, but he also has a genetic skin disease called vitiligo. This runs in my family, too, so I feel semi-qualified to speak about it, based on what my aunt and some cousins have expressed to me.

Patches appear in the skin as melanin production stops in those areas. It's a bit like being a calico cat, which has white fur but patches of orange, black, grey, and/or tabby bits. On a human, one has pigment everywhere, but patches where there's no pigment. Those patches grow bigger over time. They may eventually be everywhere, or they may only be pigmentless blotches. Either way, the effect of vitiligo's patches are that the skin is very sensitive to the sun, and can be painful even before a sunburn starts to form. Covering up becomes a medical necessity. If the only covering one can find in a hot, sunny place is that which was made for a woman, one buys it and wears it, rather than go through the pain of feeling like you've spilled boiling oil on every vitiligo-blotch of your exposed body. Convention be hanged; you just want to not be in pain.

Then, too, it's also possible that Mr. Jackson didn't realize that the clothing was made for a woman. I gather that few people bother to correct him when he does the wrong thing, so it's possible he had no idea. His own staff don't correct him because they fear losing their jobs or offending an emotionally unbalanced man; the native inhabitants of the area would probably feel that he was doing it on purpose to insult them, and therefore they wouldn't see any need to help him by informing him of his mistake.