NYTimes.com: "Theoni V. Aldredge, who died on Friday, created clothes that required sunglasses. I don’t mean as an accessory for those who wore them; I mean for the people looking at them.
Sure, she could do the bread-and-butter contemporary stuff with subdued elegance in naturalistic productions like “The Best Man” (1960), “A Delicate Balance” (1966) and “That Championship Season” (1972). But more than perhaps any other Broadway costume designer of the past half century, she understood that for a certain kind of show, nothing less than all-out dazzle would do.
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