Gatsby Garb

Ever since first hearing of the upcoming Baz Luhrmann filmic adaptation of The Great Gatsby (in 3D, no less!), I've been trolling the internet for some costume sneaks.  After all, Fitzgerald did take pains to describe the clothing of his characters and fashion has symbolic function in the novel.  My eagerness to see how the costumers would approach the 20s clothing mentioned in the book paid off the other day when I finally found a couple of snaps showing Toby MacGuire (Nick Carraway) and Leo Di Caprio (Gatsby) in their Gatsby garb--well, almost. I take it Toby's sneakers won't appear in the final cut!  Anyway, I can't wait to see what the ladies will be wearing, esp. Josephine Baker.

"Recovering himself in a minute [Gatsby] opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.
“I’ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.”
He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.
“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”