Weekend Entertainment: This old thing?

[bjornwilde]

 I just had an idea for a topic and since the weekend edition hasn't been posted, I'm taking it. =)

What do you think of your character's costuming? (I'm thinking the general term for costuming here and not just superhero tights)

Is there anything you'd like to change about it? Does it fit the voice in your head or does it clash?

For those from non visual medias, what do you imagine your character wears or is it something you think about?

Comments

[bjornwilde]

Jessica Drew: I both love and hate her costume. It is a great costume and I love the colors and her hourglass, but it's a male gaze piece and I have a hard time justifying why HYDRA designed it when she's supposed to be an assassin. I'd love to see an update but I doubt it's going to happen.

Hank McCoy: I love his costuming. It fits his awkwardness and attempts to blend in with the world. I also love the flightsuits at the end of the movie and am curious if we will see something like them return for Days Of Future Past.

Brimstone: He actually isn't described as wearing clothing in the books but he is always wearing a jeweler's loupe on a chain and a necklace with a wishbone on it. I think this is a perfect, barebones, rendering of his essence. For Milliways, I've elected to dress him in clothing much like an Anglican priest's cassock which I think suggests his wisdom and devotion to his people.

Anton Gorodetsky: I loved his blue collar look in the movies and plan on bring his tool belt, with all its enchanted items, in as often as I can. As he grows in power, the number of items will decrease until he no longer needs the belt. I like this as a nice visual clue to his growth.

Mulan: I love her armor and her hair! Can't think of much more to add, though I wonder why she has a Middle Eastern or Russian looking helm.

Quinlan/Korvas: I love his costuming, both as a Jedi and as a smuggler. It does a great job of showing his mental states as well as his connection with the Force.

Andrea Nash: Her canon is vague as to what she wears, though in a later book it is pointed out that she's always dressed as neutrally, friendly, and nonthreatening as possible. I've taken this to mean things we tend to see cleancut police detectives wear on TV.

[road_to_calvary]

I'm fine with all of mine, bar Javert. Although I'm also fine with his in a way, because he looks good in those completely inaccurate uniforms he wears in the movie. Apart from the Toulon guard getup, which is pretty close to reality.

Inspectors did not have uniform in reality, or the book. There are many 19th century illustrations that show Javert in a long black greatcoat and top hat. I can understand why they didn't go with it for the movie, because his uniforms create a good visual, but they do contradict a brick!canon point in that Javert was a spy, and part of a hated profession, and lived in shadows. He's not supposed to stand out, or wear a uniform that marks him as part of a proud organisation.

[inlovewithwords]

Henry: Totally fits him.

Eriond: Generic High Fantasy. Kinda boring.

Lois: Maaaan. I adore a lot of her outfits in the show, albeit not all (in particular there's this one orange shirt with a ruffle for a collar line and I loathe it unreasonably). But especially late in the show she very much does Office Professional and rocks the look. (One of my favorite moments, she's even wearing a waistcoat. Gotta love that woman.)

Tavi: Ooooof where to start. On the one hand, they're supposed to be not!Romans. On the other hand, kind of generic high fantasy going on. On the other other hand, WHY HAS CLOTHING NOT CHANGED THAT MUCH. So I threw up my hands. Basically, while his tunics look distinctly Roman--and any uniforms and armor definitely do--and while in the southern parts of Alera where the climate allows for sandals and the line and they might look a little more traditionally Roman? Most of Alera is a weird mix of Roman/medieval-esque look, with trousers (which explicitly exist) and boots, with cloaks of varying kinds, and, you know, some Roman-looking styles. How this meshes with female fashion I honestly have no clue.

[damncompass]

Joshua: He always wears grey pants. No really, seriously. GREY PANTS. I'm pretty sure he only owns about two pair of pants, and they're both grey. Otherwise, except for the one bit in s4 that I'm still not convinced is an AU (Even more so after this week's episode) I think his clothing fits him. A bit funky, a bit... odd.

Helena: Perfection. She just... is herself.

Mark's clothing is iconic throughout fandom.

Val and Peter... I've never thought about clothes much.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut has only appeared on-screen in three quests (well, the most recent is a two-parter, so, four, I suppose) and in all three occasions she is wearing something different, so she doesn't exactly have a costume. Disguises maybe! I get to play dress up with her, but one thing I have to keep in mind is that she wears skirts, not trousers.

Anyway, in the most recent quest(s) in which Amascut makes an appearance (but her first appearance timeline-wise), she is dressed up in royal purples and gold accessories, which I suppose does fit what she was trying to pass as — an international crime lord and pirate queen of sorts. She looked a lot more royal than the prince she kidnapped, at least. It took me a while to notice that the tiara she was wearing was in the shape of kitty ears, though... which... what? Foreshadowing, I guess. Other than the tiara, i am fine with the outfit. Here's a chibi-fied version of her wearing that outfit.

Her other disguises are blander, but she's playing at being much more ordinary people... an outcast that wanders the desert, for which she wears a brown dress, a brown cape, a walking stick and what looks like a bone necklace, and then as... actually, I don't know who Sumona is supposed to be. But in her Sumona guise she wears an off-white dress with sky blue and light brown accents. The villagers in Pollnivneach all wear white mostly, but I suppose she was going to stand out in Pollnivneach anyhow because of her red hair. Guess that is also why she decided against calling herself (and her "twin sister") Ali like everyone else in town; she wouldn't have fit in anyway. Headcanon says that she is pretending to be a merchant from some other place in the desert who decided to set up shop in town.

[ceitfianna]

Most of Will's clothing ideas come from my readings on medieval stuff with a heavy influence from the Cadfael series.

I love the look of Charles' clothing in X-Men: First Class, it captures how he acts older than his age and echoes to Patrick Stewart's suits. One reason I'm so wary about X-Men: Days of Future Past is because his costumes from his hair to suits seems off. I hope they can make it make sense.

In Moist's books, I adore the descriptions of his different suits and enjoy thinking about how each suit is part of a character.

Jane's costumes are some of my favorite Regency era looks as they're not all the fanciest but feel real. Also the colors and fabrics are lovely.

Ivan's from a book and I've yet to see a fan rendering of the Barrayaran uniforms I like, because it would be useful for icons. Since which uniform he's in says a lot about what's going on with him.

William's costumes aren't terribly exciting, but they perfectly capture how the Evans' family isn't doing that well and have a historical feel.

Sameth's outfits are fairly simple in the books and I enjoy the meanings of the various heraldry that are parts of the story.

Demeter's dresses are kind of based on classical clothing and photoshoots I've found of Kate Winslet. I prefer her to be in simple outfits.

I love Tumnus' costuming in the movie, I think it captures the simplicity of what was in the books but with variety.

The Pirate King's costumes are gloriously over the top and I love all of it and how Kevin Kline revels in it.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Gordon and Shephard are both from first person shooters with largely invisible protagonists. Until Gordon puts on the HEV suit you don't even get to see his own arm, let alone the rest of him. Canon has him spend 9/10 of his time across all the games in that suit, save for the moments at the start of HL 2 when the G-Man materializes him on a train somewhere in City 17. The only real objection I have to his costuming is that we're never really made clear on whether or not he has a helmet with his HEV suit. I'd like that cleared up.

Shephard's costuming is fine. It's Marine Corps urban camo with a gas mask and a protective vest and he's a Marine on an active mission. No problems there except that he could use longer or more protective sleeves.

Varric's is fine, as is Medic's, and I have absolutely no issues with anything Stacker Pentecost is ever depicted as wearing.

Santo's is pretty straightforward: whatever a guy in his situation would be expected to wear, plus the mask. He wears his wrestling outfit when he's chillin' at his house but he puts on a suit when he has to go out to formal events. He's Santo. He can carry it off.

Ubisoft is really pretty good at historical clothing for its male characters (its women have a tendency to be given that weird waist cincher thing that looks vaguely corsety and isn't really associated with any particular historic period), so I have no big issues with Edward Kenway's costuming.

And Ellen's costuming is a lot better than one would expect in her situation; you get a lot of attire choices if you live long enough in the Capital Wasteland. Granted, most of them are forms of armor and some of them are outright ludicrous, but it's up to you to buy or take the things you want your character to wear, so if you don't like running around in a baggy numbered jumpsuit, go dig through some ruins or shell out some caps for centuries-old clothing or wait for somebody to try and kill you and then take all their stuff if you want something with spikes on it.

[jjprobert]

Considering that theirs is a non-visual media, Reilly spends a fair amount of time describing clothing (allowing for the fact that this is Matthew Reilly, and so "anything that doesn't advance the plot, gets the chop") so, I have pretty good mental pictures of what Jack and Max wear, and no real squabbles with it.

Bean is my other from a non-visual media, but he basically is always wearing a uniform of one military or another.

Alfred's look is perfect for a man in his position, no quibbles here.

Erik's look is also something I have no issues with, as I could easily imagine several of my uni professors in something similar.

[hey35andholding]

Clem: Is her threads and her teased hair - and also uses it to distance herself from people.

Dixie: The costuming on the show in general is fitting. It has no flaws.

Juliet: Her pantsuits and her sedate out-of-work style definitely fits who she is.

Pinkie: Raided Carrot Top's prop closet and I love it.

Eponine: Her rags and outfits fit who she is on the exterior, but not who she wishes to be. Works wonderfully.