31 Days of Halloween : Witches : Always the Best Dressed Bitches

 Witches : Always the Best Dressed

Bitches

Almost no one could deny that Villainesses get the best wardrobe, the dramatic colors, the draping fabrics,  and the shockingly clever one-liners. Following closely, with tall pointy shoes, are Cinema Witches. These ladies are my favorite inbetweeners, for as much as I’d love to have Maleficent’s headdress, its often not the thing to wear to a family pick-nick. Witches are almost always stylish, and offer something mature but snazzy to influence the wardrobe that can cross over from the Bonfire to the Workplace. 

Even better, I firmly suggest that these LOVELY Ladies could offer an alternative to the Wicked Witch stereotype for your Halloween Costume Needs!

 Miss Price :  Bedknobs and Broomsticks

 You know anything set in 1940’s London is bound to have some fabulous style to it, however I think Miss Price is one of my -most- favorite onscreen witches. (Spoiler Alert : You know, until she gives it all up for a charmingly chubby man who then promptly runs off to war.) ANYHOW Miss Price is delightful. She’s slightly cranky, single minded, and full of this marvelously straightforward practicality. All the while doing it in her best Milfy-School-Marm attire. There is something of the girlish about Miss Price, as though she never quite entirely grew up, living in her tiny English town. She’s also saucy, and lets not forget pretty damned gorgeous.  

Her collection of smart suits, the flair of her practical skirts just at the knee, and elementary-teacher ensembles are very easily integrated into something that rides the line for the grown-up Punk. You can almost imagine Vivienne Westwood making a bold-recreation of Miss Price for a runway show.  (We secretly hope she decided to continue to turn the kids into rabbits when they misbehaved, or if she just needed a bit of Aunt-Adopted-Mommie time.)

Endora : Bewitched

Oh Endora! How Auntie Wicked hoped she could be just like you when she grew up. who could be more amazing? The wardrobe! The hair! The eyes! The incredible

 Agnes Moorehead

 brought life to what could have edged on what often seemed like a typical propaganda confirming that a woman should give up her power to be a wife. Not only does she end up keeping Darwood on his toes, but as any good Mother should, keeps her daughter’s life lively, and reminds her that a part of her is alive and powerful. 

 All while looking incredible! The way that Endora uses color is exceptional, and her floating chiffon numbers are well worth the second look if you are a lover of drape & movement, and COLOR! Endora does it for any need to be super fabulous, from rocket-red hair to immaculate foot!

The Grand High Witch : The Witches

Anjelica Huston, how do we love thee? So very much. While she tends to fabulous in other well-noted roles, with her soft-spoken ways and languid moving, one of our most favorite Fashion moments for Miss Houston is the Grand High Witch. The Witches, A movie based off the Roald Dahl book of the same name. The Witches (unlike our first two choices) Most definitely  plays the witch for the Villain, thus covering our Villainesses being well dressed assertion. As ever tall and pale, The Grand High Witch has reflective eyes, dark red lips, and gorgeous purple shadow. She mixes Purple and black, texture and shape in a super classic almost Noir-Film style that would lend itself as much to the Femme Fatal as the Oober Witch.

Auntie Wicked won’t lie, she would have all that wardrobe, especially if she could have Anjelica Huston’s mile long limbs! And although the Witches are the villains here, it is a very funny movie, and well worth the time, if you should want to see her Majesty Glorious in action!

 Kim Novak as Gillian Holroyd, 

 in Bell, Book, and Candle

 As with so many of these witches, Bell, Book, and Candle is something this Auntie found to be simply enchanting as a younger thing. Kim Novak already was something otherworldly and feline-like even in her other roles (including the one most people would remember, as the female lead in Hitchcock’s Vertigo). This was no exception to the rule, Gillian is cold and childish, in a strange way this again seems to be a Witchy Parable for a girl becoming a woman, although upside-down in its sensuality, casting a woman in the role normally occupied by a man, of aggressor and unromantic. 

Gillian is our Mod-Witch, an arty beatnik style that has her clad in sharp modern clothing and tidy, carefully thought out lines. Much like the High-Witch, her style can be described as semi-Gothic in that it is very dramatic and eye-catching, tending toward the dark-side. She is clearly a city-witch, although there are some stunningly soft looks that nod to her youthful witchery.

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Witches have almost always been fascinating to me. Although they often come to ends involving being melted or broken like a pony by their Men, they still represent something marvelously strong and intrinsically different. They have always been one-of-a-kind women with styles of their own, like Rockstars without the stage, sashaying to the rhythm of their own drummer down the path to fashion, and life in general. WITCHES OF THE WORLD! We salute you!  

White Witch (Tilda Swinton),  Lisle Von Rhoman (Isabella Rosellini)

Jennifer (Veronica Lake), Willow Rosenburg (Alyson Hannigan), Witches of Eastwyk (Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Phifer), Sanderson Sisters ( Kathy Najimy, Bette Middler, Sarah Jessica Parker)

Sally and Gillian Owens (Sandra Bullock, Nichole Kidman), Lady Von Tassel (Miranda Richardson), Morgana (Helen Mirren), Elphaba (Jackie Burns).

Auntie Wicked wishes you a Happy Witch’s New Year, and a Happier Halloween, Harvest, and Howliday! 

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