This and her insistence upon accuracy have largely been responsible for her success. Accuracy to Dori Zinkeisen extends even to details which are not seen, For instance, she insisted in "Sixty Glorious Years" that Anna Neagle's shoes, although not visible, should have the soft soles and low heels of ihe period. The result was that Anna Neagle was better able to adopt the straight back and little rapid steps, which was the gait peculiar to the time.
"I drove costumiers frantic," says Miss Zinkeisen, "trying to get original materials for the film. The silhouette is all important in designing and I soon found that I had, for instance, to back present-day satin in order to make it fall into the stiffer lines of Victoria's days.
"In a film like 'Sixty Glorious Years, where authenticity is everything, this attention to detail is most important. In 'Nell Gwyn,' dealing with a more remote and half-legendary story, I could fictionise to a certain extent, but here the clothes—just like the story—had to be the real thing."
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