As seen on SF Unzipped…
Last Week, “West Side Story” graced the stage at the Orpheum Theater while the first game of the World Series was being played — lucky for us, the score was announced in the beginning and intermission.
Nonetheless, the decades have treated this musical well and made it culturally relevant. More than that timeless American classic has maintained its classic — and modern — style.
For some reason, the 1961 film has never been out of style. The garb that Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno and George Chakiris donned in the movie can easily be translated to the streets today — and it teaches us that birds of a fashion feather, do indeed, flock together.
In the film and in the stage production set to the beat of the Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim score, the not-so-ethnic gang called the Jets don American workwear-meets-preppy cut from the cloth of classic Levi’s. Their rival gang of Puerto Rican immigrants, the Sharks, have a slim European silhouette with vibrant colors that emit an air of urban sophistication. Not many gang members can pull off tucking in their shirts while getting ready to rumble — but for the Sharks, it works out.
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