The story of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie, a pair of former society fixtures found living in nonpicturesque yet strangely joyful squalor in the 1970's. Catherine Marie Thomas (costume designer) has done something truly extraordinary, and brought this film alive with the poetic creation of divine dressing mixed with pure dilapidation. The fashion, as you would expect during the Bouvier's social elite period of their lives, is tasteful and elegant. The momentous part of this film is when we are faced with the women's struggle through poverty, never losing the abundance of their pride in their appearance.
To me this film will always be a classic, not just for the fashion but for the sheer passion for life that is portrayed in every frame from start to finish.