Bluebird Costumes Analysis

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” (Fashion Quotes 1) The words once spoken by Henry David Thoreau are politically correct. People often look at Elizabethan‘s choice of fashion and ridicule everything about it from the hair, down to the stockings. As it appears, fashion has always been a broad topic of discussion in the world. Whether it is NY Fashion Week or a Macy’s fashion show, fashion is something that has always been an eye catcher. Fashion has been around for many years, and whether we know it or not, Elizabethan fashion has influenced the way modern fashion is today.

The costumes used in Luhrmann’s film are very modern as using the original Elizabethan style costumes would make the film more historical and therefore would not appeal to a younger audience. Luhrmann has used two distinctive costume styles to help the audience distinguish the difference between the two families. For the Montague family, Luhrmann has put the characters in unbuttoned, bright coloured Hawaiian shirts and given the males short blonde hair to link to these characters beachside lifestyles. For the Capulet family, Luhrmann has used stylish but sinister looking costumes such as vests, and silver heeled boots to show the audience how these men are similar to Mexican drug

In Cold Mountain and "A Poem for the Blue Heron", tone is established in a multitude of ways. These two pieces of literature describe the characteristics and actions of a blue heron, both aiming for the same goal. However, Charles Frazier and Mary Oliver approach their slightly differing tones employing organization, metaphoric language, and diction.

The are several different types of costuming that were shown in Tim Burton’s style. His style showed uniqueness, which described who they are, and how they are compared. Tim Burton represents how the costuming and accessories are described in several ways the person’s values in life. His values in people’s life were lost since he did not look like the rest. For example, when Edward leaves the Mansion, and goes to a new home, the neighbourhood was all amazed like if they never seen “an evil monster”Edward had scissors for hands since he was made in the mansion. Due to him not being human he was 6 foot something, which was not normal. By bringing a character spontaneous the details show how no one ever looks at someone by who they are. The

“costume is often coordinated with setting. Since the filmmaker usually wants to emphasize the human figures, setting may provide more or less neutral background, while costume helps pick out the characters. Color design is particularly important here.”

People use to wear clothes that we would see in plays, wearing costumes practically. Kind of like the hunger games with less technology ha-ha. People wore colors that based off of their royalty or as we call it "classes" purples, reds, and golds were for the higher royalty and lower classes could not wear those colors. Men liked to wear clothes that made them look bigger because the bigger you were meant that you could afford to eat a lot of food "royalty." Now we like to wear clothes that make us look more skinny, black does that. Jeans and t-shirts are worn daily and we only wear fancy clothes for occasions, well for the most of us. We don't were costumes as regular clothes, that's only for plays or if your acting. We can wear any colors we want and it won't tell us if we have any kind of royalty.

How did that costume give you insight into that particular character or into the “world” of the piece?

From an audience’s perspective, a performer and their costume merge into one entity (Wilson, 2011). The costume that was the biggest eyesore was Froggy’s military attire. As everything in the show has a rural, old fashioned theme, he brought something totally different to the picture: camouflage fatigues. The costume that I was most impressed by, though, was Ellard’s. His outfit was a physical representation of what people thought of him. He had disheveled hair, dirty overalls half undone, and a messy shirt underneath. Ellard was perceived by those around him as mentally challenged, and his costume conveyed that through his lack of awareness towards his

The movie and the play are made in two different time periods. Since the movie is in a more recent time period, the clothes worn by the characters in the movie are more modern. The clothes in the play are more elegant and reflect the 16th century era.

To begin, when looking at the outfit choices of the actors, they are wearing casual clothing, this is very suitable and relatable to the current style trends of young adults today. To illustrate, Hamlet is wearing a fun t-shirt with a design of a muscular chest along with jeans (Shakespeare, 2010). Simultaneously, Ophelia portrays to be more elegant and put together, as she is wearing a dress with a v-neck where the dress flows down to her knees (Shakespeare, 2010). Additionally, she pairs this outfit with a simple necklace and white heels (Shakespeare, 2010). This exemplifies that there is not a huge emphasis on fashion today opposing to the Elizabethan era, since it was very scandalous for people to walk around with a t-shirt, jeans and a short dress. Further, this demonstrates that people in this century wear whatever is comfortable for them, allowing younger audiences to easily relate and appreciate the actress's fashion choices. Lastly, the careful selection of colours depicts a very modernized atmosphere while Hamlet is speaking. In particular, Hamlet is wearing a dark orange shirt and Ophelia is wearing an olive green dress (Shakespeare 2010). Since dark orange is a very attention seeking colour and also represents heat, this suggests Hamlet’s insanity and that he is the most important actor of the scene ("Basic Color Theory"). Conversely, olive green represents peace, this symbolizes Ophelia’s mental state, as she is calm while speaking to Hamlet before he screams at her ("Basic Color Theory"). Moreover, these two colours compliment each other very well, creating a pleasant mood for the audience’s enjoyment ("Color Wheel Pro”). On the whole, the use of clothing and its colours help to support that the intended audience for this Hamlet medium is for a younger

Bluebird is a poem written by the modern poet Charles Bukowski and published in 1992 in Bukowski’s collection of poems titled “The Last Night of the Earth Poems”.

The people who lived during the Elizabethan Era were not allowed to wear whatever they like or desired. Their Fashion choices had to be followed by a strict law! The English people chose to establish social classes by the colors they wore and this had an affect on costumes used in theatre. Queen Elizabeth I followed the sumptuary laws, which was only certain classes were consent to wear specific fabric and colors. Therefore in plays the actors could only wear certain colors for their costumes that displayed what role and class their character was in. The clothes worn during this era was a result of Queen Elizabeth’s sumptuary laws, which had an affect on costumes used in plays, and each color a person wore had a significant meaning.

I was not expecting the costumes to be as eccentric. Even though they were matching the characters’ role and personality, I felt like they were too wacky and did not go well with the play.

All the character were wearing normal clothing nothing special. In the first scene where Hamlet is approaching the press conference. He pulls up in a hat and loose fitting jeans he has this hipster type of look. A complete three sixty from the medieval clothing that he was in when Shakespeare wrote the play. Through the play he is wearing normal clothing that would have been popular in the 2000. For Ophelia she was dressed casual but her hair was in braids which is something that women would have worn in later years. I liked how they incorporated that in the movie. Claudius was far dressed from the typical king clothing he did not have a crown or anything like that. The entire movie he was dressed in a fancy suit and a suitcase which is the modern version of a

Imagine a classic Shakespearian play or Italian opera performed in hip-hugging jeans or baggy t-shirts; or imagine the period musical 1776, produced by the wonderful Stuart Ostrow, performed in the groovy attire of the 1970s. These performances would seem completely out of place and confusing. One would not be able to grasp the completeness of the story or have any understanding of the time period, geographical location, or the character’s lifestyles and/or social statuses. As a result, the audience would fail to see certain emotions or feelings portrayed, character personalities, and would find it very difficult be connected to