NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) -- "The Stepford Wives'" costume designer wanted the remake's actresses to look "dopey pretty" so she dressed them in floral dresses with matching headbands.
When Ann Roth set forth to work on the current Hollywood version of the 1975 thriller, she decided the robotic characters should not be too stylish, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
"I wanted the audience to look at the women and think 'where did she get those clothes, that face, those toenails, those feet?'" Roth said.
"I wanted not smart, not hip, nothing that vaguely said Tribeca or Soho or the Lower East Side or Paris. I wanted dopey pretty. Do you know the phrase 'roundheeled woman?' Well, like that," she said.
To achieve the look, Roth used plenty of headbands and corsets to make the waistlines look like bud vases, she said.
The film, starring Nicole Kidman and Glenn Close, opens June 11 in U.S. theaters.
