#wizard fashion

muzinabu:

1-800-uwu:

i hope that if there’s ever a Harry Potter reboot they hire more interesting costume designers to work on wizard fashion, because the book mentiones wizard fashion is way different from muggle fashion and i am very interested in how they would showcase that difference.

especially nowadays with cgi being so much better:

• pattern that move
• patterns that glow
• BAND MERCH WHERE THE BAND IS ACTUALLY MOVING
• kids with cute moving cartoons on their shirts
• enchanted shoes that make you float just a tiny bit to make you look taller without high heels hurting your feet
• also house emblems that move
• while we’re at it actual robes instead of a uniform (would be cool if they actually change colour as soon as they’re sorted
• long flowy clothes that float so they just don’t touch the ground
• also NO/LESS OF A GENDER BINARY
• teens and young adults mixing traditional wizard clothes with muggle clothes because leather/denim jackets and skinny jeans are cool and the wizarding world probably has hipsters as well

i could go on and on and on about the opportunities

Thank you very much! I think it’s main stylistic problem of the Harry Potter cinematic universe.

While there are lots of fascinating locations, magical creatures and richly animated magical spells, costume designs are mostly not boring, but not exciting enough for the wizarding world those movies are trying to portray.

There are outfits close to something interesting: Queenie Goldstein’s outfits, Leta Lestrange’ outfits, Nagini’s dress, some of the Yule Ball dresses, Beauxbaton’s school uniform, Kingsley looks and the whole Luna Lovegood’ hipster wizard style.

But those are only bright brush strokes on the mostly grey painting.

Costume choices could’ve been used to emphasize diversity and inequality. We know that there are charasters from different classes, with different origin, but we can’t actually see it on the screen. The only moment when movies visually show us inequality by costume choices, it’s Ron getting his Yule Ball outfit.

Even when Draco insults Ron with the words “hand-me-down robe”, the robe actually not quite different from the ones anybody else is wearing.

The truth here is: we were robbed.

And I am very disappointed with this.

fashion4queens:

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