Group Discussion.

In todays lecture we were discussing in our groups the film 'Cabaret' the characters and the era. We discussed Sally's characteristics how she is very naive and had a 'don't care' attitude how this was portrayed through the large doe eye look using false lashes, within the book she is said to be 19 were as compared to the film the character feels and looks a lot older.
We explored the influence the styling had, as in the era of the 30's there was the great depression may people in berlin were poor and struggled in every day life. The styling of sally was very well put together her sharp bob didn't look like a woman of the times with no money it looked as though she had been to a hairdressers and was we'll kept. This was most likely due to the stylists aesthetics within the film, even though they may have considered the era and the lack of money the styling had to appeal to the audience of the musical film, most likely girls and women between ages 17 and 30. I personally imagine the styling to be a lot more tacky, the cabaret girls wouldn't have earned much money and would be wanting to appeal to a weather audience so for this they may dress 'cheap classy' to impress the customers.
Further we disscused what was most likely used in the creation of the looks within the cast. Wigs would have most likely been used as most of the styles were bob's the growth would be hard to control on natural hair and to create such a sharp style such as the one Sally wore on stage this would take a lot of time every day to get perfect. Also some of the Kit Kat girls were men to wigs would have had to been used here too.
It was interesting listening to the variations of styling people would chose or didn't like on various characters, personal influence can effect a design and i feel that i want to stay away from the inspirations of the styling within the film of Sally and create my own interpretation of the character.