THE year is 1953, and a stylish young woman might be expected to wear a straw hat on her first trip abroad. Such a hat, a ribbon-threaded Breton placed on a bench, is the first thing you see, making its sunny debut in “The Light in the Piazza” well before the first of the characters strolls onto the stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Blown off by the wind as soon as Clara puts it on, the hat is a fetching expression of the buoyancy of those postwar years. A similarly optimistic spirit colors many of the costumes, pastel-tinted confections light enough to be carried aloft on the breeze.
By RUTH LaFERLA
New York Times
Published: June 12, 2005
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