Lucy buys a Don Loper original

[Iluvlucynviv58]

I saw this episode today and it is hilarious where Lucy gets this dress and it cost 500 dollars in 1955 dollars. She's so afraid Ricky will kill her so she gets a sympathy sunburn thinking he'll feel so sorry for her and won't yell at her. Wrong! I love where she goes in the fashion show and can hardly model the tweed suit she's so sunburnt. Great stuff Lucille.

[Barnabas1]

I KNOW! I LOVE THAT EPISODE!

[Ricardos4ever]

All of the Hollywood episodes are just great.

[~LadyJess~]

Everytime I see this episode I think about how my grandma told me she once got sunburnt like that. Ouch.

[dawsongirl]

What's amazing is that $500 for a dress now is expensive. I wouldn't pay that.

[Barnabas1]

Originally posted by dawsongirl
What's amazing is that $500 for a dress now is expensive. I wouldn't pay that. Ditto.

[*ShortCake*]

omgosh this is one of my very favorite episodes! I would pay that much for a dres if I had other place's to wear it too. Sometimes it's so hard to find one.. when you find one for that much its just like I have to have it..I guess its a girl thing, well for me anyways LOL. Ricky I would hope you wouldnt pay that much for a dress.. or pay for a dress at all for that matter. That would start to worry me! LOLOL

[Kristina]

Yep, I love this episode. I need to watch my tapes more often. It's so funny when she is modeling, lol.

[*ShortCake*]

LOL me too.. maybe I should this weekend. I wish they would sell the dvds though for like a full season like Friends & Mary Tyler Moore has done. It would be so much easier :/

[JaneTVFan]

Originally posted by dawsongirl
What's amazing is that $500 for a dress now is expensive. I wouldn't pay that.

$500 in 1955 is equivalent to about $3,200 today. That dress had better be nice!

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by JaneTVFan
$500 in 1955 is equivalent to about $3,200 today. That dress had better be nice!

Really. You know what I could buy with $3,200??

[JaneTVFan]

Originally posted by dawsongirl


Really. You know what I could buy with $3,200??

Plenty, if you don't spend it all on a Don Loper original.

[~LadyJess~]

Originally posted by JaneTVFan
$500 in 1955 is equivalent to about $3,200 today. That dress had better be nice!

Geez, I'd never spend that much money on just a plain old dress like that one was.

[SPLAIN]

Nice to finally see you back Jane, missed you, how's your friend doing? Would have wanted to see Lucy in the one Mrs Forest Tucker wore, Lucy so seldom wore glamorous gowns like that, must have been the price!

[JaneTVFan]

Originally posted by SPLAIN
Nice to finally see you back Jane, missed you, how's your friend doing? Would have wanted to see Lucy in the one Mrs Forest Tucker wore, Lucy so seldom wore glamorous gowns like that, must have been the price!

The friend is doing okay, but don't want to get into that. Can't remember the Mrs. Forest Tucker dress. But the one I think she looked best in around that time was the one she wore when she danced with such beauty and grace with Van Johnson.

[SPLAIN]

The Forrest Tucker one was the long flowing one with beeds, i like flashy, i'm a Leo like Lucy. You're right about the Van Johnson one, she wore a similar number to the Radio City Music Hall opening of Trailer, and the Ed Sullivan tribute also. I always thought being a former model, she didn't spend too much time getting clothes, maybe that's why she often wore the same things, and also wound up on Mr Blackwell's worst dressed list a few times in teh sixties!

[JaneTVFan]

Originally posted by SPLAIN
The Forrest Tucker one was the long flowing one with beeds, i like flashy, i'm a Leo like Lucy. You're right about the Van Johnson one, she wore a similar number to the Radio City Music Hall opening of Trailer, and the Ed Sullivan tribute also. I always thought being a former model, she didn't spend too much time getting clothes, maybe that's why she often wore the same things, and also wound up on Mr Blackwell's worst dressed list a few times in teh sixties!

I've never understood why anyone gives a rip about this Mr. Blackwell's opinion. How did he get this clout?

[SPLAIN]

I't s a gimmick like everything else, he became famous, not for his designs, but for a list that disses people, his new list came out a few weeks ago. Everybody noticed that it's only the hottest people that make his list, to have more of an impact, so back in the 60's, there were no bigger stars than Lucy or Liz Taylor, and as they weren't the best dressed to begin with, he picked on them to get publicity!

[JaneTVFan]

Originally posted by SPLAIN
I't s a gimmick like everything else, he became famous, not for his designs, but for a list that disses people, his new list came out a few weeks ago. Everybody noticed that it's only the hottest people that make his list, to have more of an impact, so back in the 60's, there were no bigger stars than Lucy or Liz Taylor, and as they weren't the best dressed to begin with, he picked on them to get publicity!

Lucy wore fabulous clothes, until Gary Morton came along. He got her wearing all those gowns and boas that made her look uppity and pretentious.

[SPLAIN]

You know, i was flabbergasted when i heard that, then again, don't know why i'm surprised, he was the Marty Melcher of her career. She looked great in the early sisties when she had some Edith Head numbers during Critic's Choice, lousy movie but sophisticated clothes.

[JaneTVFan]

Originally posted by SPLAIN
You know, i was flabbergasted when i heard that, then again, don't know why i'm surprised, he was the Marty Melcher of her career. She looked great in the early sisties when she had some Edith Head numbers during Critic's Choice, lousy movie but sophisticated clothes.

I'm not talking about what she wore in her movies and on her TV shows when she was in character, I mean the clothes she wore when she was supposedly being Lucille Ball, Star of the Universe, like when she made personal appearances, or special guest appearances on talk shows, or variety shows (like those Bob Hope specials) or on awards shows. Or like that diamond, high collar deal she had on in the opening credits of Here's Lucy, or the boas she wore in the opening of The Lucy Show. Look back at the clothes she wore back in the '50s when she made similar guest appearances (Ed Sullivan, for example, or What's My Line?). Her clothes were attractive and fashionable, yet down-to-earth. Back in those days, her clothes reflected good taste and didn't make her look like she was trying to show off or be above everybody. She was real when she was with Desi. Gary's influence made her less real.

[SPLAIN]

That's a hard one, because the clothes she wore on the shows are sometimes the same ones she wore in real life. The red dress in Yours mine and ours that the kids shorten she wore at the house all the time, the blue dress she married Fonda in was her actual wedding dress when she married Gary. She was always doing that. My theory is that being a former model and not liking wasting time with fittings and shopping, she always wore the same things over and over. On the ILL show, that made sense, as she wanted the character to reflect a normal housewife, only in the clothes, mind you. She stated so herself on a Mike Douglas show where she came out and modeled all these outfits. She said that whenever she had to go to a party, she would check her closets and say, a la Lucy, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO WEAR, BECAUSE she never had time to shop, always running the studio, doing the shows, taking care of her kids, house family and friends etc... I always wondered why she wore those gaudy outfits, and to me it makes sense that Gary would be involved, another thing he was not good at! Maybe she even thought that the outfits took the emphasis off her changing looks!