Reasons I Should Not Look Too Closely At Costume Depictions

[sakon76]

I fully admit I am a snob about many things of various stupidity. My kitchen garden, for one. I only grown plants from heirloom seeds. And sometimes costuming is another.

I've been avoiding most of the trailers and spoilers for the movie Brave. (Mainly because I know I will want to cosplay either Queen Elinor, and good luck for me on finding material to match her dress, or Merida.) But when these collages were posted on the d_princesses comm, I figured they couldn't be too spoilery, so I took a look.

Look at the third and fourth collages. Tell me if that doesn't look like Merida being laced into a Victorian corset. When the rest of her clothing is clearly medievaloid. Corsets weren't even invented when the movie is supposed to be set!

Argh. No words. Pixar fail.

Comments

[spiderlove.livejournal.com]

Heh, as if writing a bad Mulan/HTTYD crossover and selling it as a movie wasn't a big enough fail already? ;D And as much as I love the effect of the hair, it's nagging at me that gravity is affecting it as if it were a handful of yarn, not actual hair (or even a bigass clump of yarn!).

They'd have to pay me a LOT to sit through that movie.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

I'm enjoying the previews by pretending it takes place in the same world as Brigadoon (ie, celtic fantasy) :D This is working surprisinglyw ell, although it will probably be spoiled by lack of people bursting into song when I actually see the movie.

[tainry.livejournal.com]

Oooooo the green Elinor and Merida's wool indigo yes!!!!! Those would be awesome cosplay!
If I didn't cut my bangs for six months and fluffed my hair up a...lot...

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

Yup! That's definitely a Victorian-style corset. If she were wearing any corsetry at all for that time period it'd be just a stiff and tightly (front) laced undergown. (Also, ooh, pretty green gown!)

You're probably best just saying it's set in the early part of the Disney/Pixar Fairy Tale Era and leaving it at that. Very little Disney costuming does more than glance at an actual historical style. :P

[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

Cartoon character creators generally fail at things like period outfits.

There is one cartoon-costume detail that I love and was rather appropriate, and that was in Tangled. Mother Gothel wears a medieval-inspired gown, while the other characters are more renn-inspired. She's also centuries older than the other characters, and thus likely is hanging onto the fashions of her youth, like many women do today in an effort to look "young".