Dress in Detail: the "I Don't Care" Dress
My very first post on Filmland Follies was a Dress in Detail article where I analyzed the dress Ginger Rogers wore in Swing Time 's "Never Gonna Dance." You can read it here! Here is the second installment in this little series; it's about another of my favorite cinematic dresses. From one of Judy Garland's most quotable numbers, I present... the "I Don't Care" dress! The Scene In 1949, Judy Garland's career at MGM was coming to an end. In her time at the studio, she had made a string of wildly successful films, from Babes in Arms to the Wizard of Oz to Easter Parade . Sadly, by the end of the '40s, Judy was struggling mentally and physically and was unable to complete multiple films. 1949 saw her on suspension from MGM, when she was replaced in the Barkleys of Broadway by Ginger Rogers. After returning to work Judy made Words and Music and then In the Good Old Summertime . In the