Poster for the movie The Best of Me.
In the fall of 1992, Dawson Cole and Amanda Collier met for the first time.
“The Best of Me” – The best in me, all for you.
Costume designer Ruth E. Carter shares about the process of creating the character Amanda in two stages from when she was a teenager to when she was an adult woman.
ELLE invites readers to take a look at the fashion in the movie The Best of Me.
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Lovely young girl Amanda in a youthful blue Peekaboo-style strapless dress.
* Peekaboo is a fashion definition that refers to products made from fabrics with holes or see-through fabrics.
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Close-fitting dress with polka dot pattern with deep V-neck helps show off her hot bust.
The fashion of the adult character Amanda, played by beautiful actress Michelle Monaghan, has a 90s style. It is important when designing costumes for the character at this time that costume designer Ruth E.
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Derek Lam’s blue strapless dress with waistline gives her an elegant beauty.
The red floral print dress was sewn into a custom-designed outfit with fabric purchased at a store in New York.
Designer Ruth recalled, `The director did not want to use any more red colors in the film because he wanted Michelle’s red flower-printed dress to stand out.`
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Fairy blouse with floral print in gentle chiffon material from Joie Macy B.
Elegant in an outfit set including a tweed pencil skirt from Ann Taylor and a white chiffon shirt from Vince Pocket.
The outfit set includes small pale pink straight-leg pants from the Chloe Cady brand combined with a chiffon shirt from the Vince Placket brand, giving Amanda the sweet charm of a middle-aged woman.
No matter how different Dawson and Amanda are in terms of family background, they themselves are eerily similar…
…because both of them cannot forget their first passionate love for each other.
I think sometimes in life, we don’t necessarily have to listen to anyone’s `advice`.
“What should I do?”.
“It’s very simple,” she said.
“Don’t listen to your mother’s advice?”
“Exactly,” her mother said.
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