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[beatrice_otter]

So, I'm watching My Fair Lady tonight, and the first thing that goes through my head (as always) when I see Eliza come out dressed for the Embassy Ball is "Wow, her hair looks like T'Pring's!"  (Of course, it's the other way around, as My Fair Lady came out in 1964 and "Amok Time" was released in 1967.)

Eliza and Higgins:

Spock and T'Pring:

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Wow, you're right! I always wondered about those super-elaborate hairstyles of TOS, because the last time those hairstyles were in was the 1890s, and the women who wore them had servants to do their hair. Starship officers and crew do not, so I imagined a sort of hair-creator that created the style on their head over the top of their own hair. When I watched TNG and they had replicator technology, that was it!

[beatrice_otter]

Or, you know, wigs or something. There are some cultures, you know, where women wear wigs for some reason or other. (Some branches of orthodox Jews, for example.) I have this vague idea that Yeoman Rand (she of the towering beehives that grew ever-taller as the show went on, which were indeed wigs) is from one of those cultures.

[lastscorpion]

O. M. G! Why didn't I ever notice that? There must have been some sort of time-loop or something!

IRL, of course, it was probably that that wig was lying around the Paramount costume room, and the Star Trek people were desperate to not spend too much money. Or something.

[beatrice_otter]

That or T'Pring is just a big fan of 20th-century Earth musicals ...

[thothmes]

Actually, before the pictures had finished loading (slow dial-up internet) and I could only see the My Fair Lady screen cap, the accompanying image in my head was of Celia Lovsky (Lovesky?) as T'pau. Probably less due to the hair, and more due to the slender, long-nosed faces both actresses have.

[beatrice_otter]

Oh, right--I forgot about her, but her hair is also similar!