Showing posts with label Snow White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snow White. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Costume Critique: Snow White in the forest

Once Upon A Time is a television show about fairy-tale characters that get trapped in the real world. Snow White is one of the main characters. For this critique I am going to focus on Snow White's forest costume. 
 While in the forest  Snow would have to be able to camouflage to hide from the Evil Queen, so she wears a lot of browns and greens. In the scenes where she is in the forest it is often cooler which I think is why the costume designer put her in different leathers and furs. Her clothes are tight fitting and made of material that she can easily move around in and she has leather boots to keep her feet dry while trudging through the dewy wet forest.  The belt around her middle helps accentuate her features and gives her the hourglass figure. There are a lot of stitches visible on her costume which really helps to give I that old-timey-fairy-tale-era feel. Her gloves, also made of leather, are good to keep her hands from getting all scraped up while climbing trees and over logs and boulders. Lastly, her cape is a deep forest green that blends well with her surroundings. It has a very simple trim, such as a peasant would have, and comes only to her knees as to keep it from dragging on the ground and leaving a trail. Her cape has a large hood that Snow uses to conceal her identity when needed.
Snow's hair is usually down with some slight messy curls in it and pulled partly back to keep it out of her face. It looks just as I would imagine an outcast princesses hair might look like. Her make-up is also very basic. Neutral tones help to show her raw beauty as she is "the fairest of them all." I think this costume was done very well with attention paid to every little detail.