Lightning Fashions (1922)
No title. c 1922 Woman in a boudoir setting (bearskin rug on the floor) is helped on to a box by a man in tails. The woman stands on the box in her underwear and puts her hands above her head. The man bows. He pulls out a large swathe of fabric and proceeds to wrap the woman in it creating an outfit in a very short space of time. He folds, tucks and pins the fabric with exaggerated magician like movements. When he has woven his magic, the girl does a turn to show the elaborately draped outfit he bows to the camera. Only 90 seconds, girls, can you beat it And few ladies can resist the Another outfit is created in the same manner. This time it is a bridal outfit with a very elaborate mufftypething C, U of a line of sheet music Here comes the bride I presume. L, S of the outfit. Note: the designer is probably M. Alphonse Berg who is seen in two other film on the same theme A While You Wait Frock and M Lady s Dress While She Waits this seems to have been a popular the
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