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Talking Pictures
Solid whites never photographed as white. Instead, they came out on the screen gray or streaked. Photography then could make a new white dress shirt look as though it had been a parade ground for a battalion of cats with dirty feet.
On the other hand, light blues, light creams, light yellows, or light pinks gave a perfect white. In those days one could never tell when a dark shade of blue would photograph white or black. In the center of the shading arc there was an indeterminate place where a white or a black result might depend on lighting or on the whim of the particular emulsion on that particular piece of film. Because light color tints were giving a better photographic white, actors began to dye their white shirts.
One day the late John Gilbert, then the greatest of the matinee idols, had to go from a working stage directly to an afternoon social affair without having had time to change his clothes. He wore a shirt dyed blue. Within two years, the vogue was international. Since then the sale of colored shirts has vastly increased and they have become an accepted style.
Today with the new "panchromatic" (color sensitive) film, colored shirts are no longer worn by picture actors before cameras. The new film has perfect photographic values for pure white. But many a young leading man, without being conscious of the part played in his choice by an actor of an earlier time, goes to his dressing room, removes the white shirt he has worn before the cameras, and puts on a colored shirt to wear on the street.
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