You brought what you could fit in one suitcase, and you wore it and mended it over and over again.” The wind was blowing constantly, and there was a layer of dirt on everything you owned. You were washing things on the side of a rock or in a little tub and hanging them out to dry. Zophres advises that the aging of costumes and the distressing and dirtying up of all manner of fabrics and leather are a big part of the making of any Western. In that time, clean laundry-or a change of clothes, for that matter-was a luxury. Zophres started the research about the costume by photographs from 1870’s and diaries from traveler women. On Coen Brothers’ movie, they asked her an authentic costume unlike Favreau that chose a sexy style. Mary Zophres started to work on this project as soon as she finished True Grit.
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