Since the last episode of Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Hulu original series "The Handmaid's Tale" (adapted from the eponymous 1985 dystopian book by Margaret Atwood) there has been a lot of speculation online about the themes that will be tackled and the characters that will appear in the third series. Guess fans will also be curious to see how Ane Crabtree may develop the costumes in future.
The last episode of the second series hinted at the fact that, by choosing to remain in Gilead, June will try and save her daughter Hannah, but will there be a handmaids' revolt? And if there will be one, what will the handmaids be dressed like? Who knows, but, bizarrely enough, this picture from a September 1953 fashion photoshoot instantly makes you think about a possibly subversive "Handmaid's Tale" costume.
The image shows a model wearing a long white high-waist skirt in Daino Legler (literally Legler Deer, a fabric produced in the '50s by the textile manufacturer Legler), matched with a black jersey top and a coat in a black, white and grey Prince of Wales pattern.
The most striking thing in this Capucci ensemble is the hat that calls to mind for its shape and perfect architectural configuration Medieval and monastic headdresses, even though its bright red colour (matched with the red of the gloves and the lipstick) references love and passion.The red headdress with its wings opening to reveal the face of the model could be conceived as the perfect antithesis to the stark white horse blinder-like bonnets that hide the face of the handmaids in the TV series. In a way this could be reinterpreted and reinvented as a sort of elegant accessory for rebel handmaids who want to show their faces and be outspoken, while we wait for the garments and accessories Crabtree will design for June and her friends in the third part of the successful dystopian drama.
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