An article re: the fashion/makeup featured in the movie
Supremely stylish
'Dreamgirls' evokes time that defined glamour for African-American women
Samantha Thompson Smith, Staff Writer
A scene in the new movie "Dreamgirls" took Judith Bell back: Beyonce's hair in a chignon with a dainty hat on top. "I used to wear my hair like that," she says. Raleigh's Lillian Thompson remembers wearing similar makeup -- heavy around the eyes.
"We did thick liner to make your eyes look dark," she says.
"Dreamgirls" might be a fictional tale loosely telling the story of Diana Ross and the Supremes, but for countless women raised on Motown who took style cues from the Supremes and other girl groups, the movie is a dazzling, true-to-life flashback to a golden era in fashion.
"At that time, parents told you what you could wear and what you could not wear," says Esther Delany, 56, a Raleigh native who grew up watching the Supremes and the Shirelles. "The way they dressed at that time, they portrayed the norm. They were not outrageous. It was a proper kind of dress."
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