# For the women:  Do movies influence your fashion tastes?

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**Created:** [March 16, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-women-do-movies-influence-your-fashion-tastes/161750 "2003-03-16T07:04:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-women-do-movies-influence-your-fashion-tastes/161750/1 "2003-03-16T07:04:56Z")

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I didn’t realize how **much** movies have influenced me until the past year. First I had Amelie’s hairdo. Then when _Frida_ came out, I found myself buying big dangling earrings and peasant skirts and tops. I haven’t worn the skirts and tops yet because they are summery. But they will look a little funny with my Catherine Zeta-Jones haircut from _Chicago_. (Modified the one from _Amelie_.)

Deep down one of the things I want most is Lara’s fur hat from _Doctor Zhivago_. But in the South? Besides, I don’t wear much fur.

I can remember a time in the late fifties and early sixties when most of us girls looked liked clones of Audrey Hepburn – or at least we tried to. Short dark hair, big sunglasses, a white scarf tied in the front and again in the back, sleeveless dresses. I even heard Barbara Walters admit to it once.

Have any movies, characters or celebrities influenced your style through the years?

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**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-women-do-movies-influence-your-fashion-tastes/161750/2 "2003-03-16T07:47:21Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Zoe \*  
> **Then when _Frida_ came out, I found myself buying big dangling earrings and peasant skirts and tops.**

Just that? If you were _truly_ influenced by the movies you would’ve grown the monobrow.

And, err, I’m not one of the ladies the title refers to, but when I was around 9 or 10 I asked my barber if she could cut my hair so I looked like Han Solo, and used any excuse possible to wear a black vest and a white shirt. (I guess if I’m going to make fun of the OP I have to give an embarrassing story of my own as well.)