Jayne Dracula @ The Dev-

Devil's Night 2013

 

 Jayne Dracula
@ The DEV

Utica, NY
 

A DecayNY event
photos: Valerie Laubenheimer 
 

Happy Halloween!!!

Hangin' @ The Landmark

Monster ,

& me.

Bela Lugosi

 Bela Lugosi (1882–1956)

birth name- Be'la Ferenc Dezso Blasko

 

Born  on October 20, 1882. 

Died August 16, 1956

 

"Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula."

Zombie Walk

event info

Charlie's Little Tramp

Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp costume at the V&A museum.

According to Chaplin’s autobiography he created the Tramp’s outfit from deliberately contradictory elements: baggy pants, tight jacket, oversized shoes and small derby hat provided by fellow actors and whangee cane owned by himself. Accessories such as the high-collar shirt, check waistcoat and tie are not accounted for, but Chaplin claims to have added a moustache to make himself appear older. In this first manifestation, the Tramp is scruffier and less affecting than he became later. The cigarette adds to his louche appearance and the cane is a parody of gentleman’s attire. Chaplin gives a professional clown’s performance in the tradition of the North American Tramp/Hobo; his costume is based on a collage of mismatched pieces that appear to have been randomly collected from discarded clothing … While the dissonant parts of the Tramp’s outfit do not cohere into a sartorial whole, their recombination indicates the character’s aspirations to be a dandy.

The Tramp’s clothes draw attention to the social significance of dress as well as to his affectation, which Chaplin developed as a feature of his performance. The collage effect, deriving from popular forms such as the circus and street theatre, resonates with the aesthetic strategies of the Surrealists and others. The pastiche of styles portrays the character as a fabrication, a social type rather than a rounded individual. While the rudiments of psychological motivation are there in the costume’s ridicule of the Tramp’s desire to belong to a higher class, the emphasis on disguise focuses the viewer’s attention on Chaplin’s self-presentation as star performer … The Tramp and his costume become the spectacle.

- Film and fashion expert Pam Cook.