OPEN POST: Hosted By FASHION!

Sure, it's a Wednesday and things seem kind of grim, but if there's one thing we can all agree on, it's haute couture. Women, gay men (and the occasional straight man) all approve of classy, sexily-appointed stars, and the costume designers of the Golden Age of Film did one hell of a job, like the designer of Ginger Rogers' wardrobe for "It Had To Be You."

Or Grace Kelly's costumer for "To Catch A Thief."

Courtesy Heritage Auctions

Courtesy Heritage Auctions

Or how about Dorothy Dandridge's wardrobe as the ultimate Femme Fatale in "Carmen Jones?"

©Twentieth Century Fox and Rogers and Hammerstein

The wavishing Kay Fwancis (she had a speech impediment) isn't too well known anymore, but she was a box-office giant in the '30s and no matter what she wore she made it look effortless.

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And then there's the glorious Dolores Del Rio (one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood history). Some people look good in real life, but crappy in photographs; others look good in pictures but lousy in person. But from everything I've seen, Ms. Del Rio looked magnificent either way.

And last, but far from least, you know I had to end a fashion post with La Crawford. She was much more than a clotheshorse but gosh damn, did she know how to wear clothes. These images are from 1942's "Reunion In France." I straight-up love this film though apparently many critics did not, but I always think of it as "Casablanca"-lite.

Joan Crawford Images: 1942

Happy Open Post, darlings! Talk about fashion, or "big, fat movie stars" (to paraphrase Baby Jane Hudson) or your own lives and your travails and your triumphs.

Oh, wait! There's one more magnificent costume from the Golden Age of Hollywood, and it may be the greatest cinematic gown of all time:

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