OUaT s1 - Clothes make the point

[arduinna]

Short one this time! And all the text is going under a cut, because I can't explain this without spoilers.

Spoilers for episode 8.

So in this episode, Emma is running for sheriff. She was the deputy, and has been acting as sheriff for weeks, but Regina wants her out because she hates her, precious.

Regina runs her own stooge, Sidney, and there is a debate -- which is the world's worst debate, actually. But the words aren't the point, thank god. The clothes are.

This is what the debate stage looks like:



The entire debate takes place in that picture, IMO.

Emma is wearing brown boots, brown hose, khaki skirt, light brown shirt, medium brown leather jacket.





Sidney's wearing a dark suit, white shirt, red tie.



Everything Emma is wearing is saying "I'm already the sheriff."

Everything Sidney is wearing? Is saying "I'm the mayor's man." Because although it's hard to see in that first picture, Regina is sitting front row center in a red jacket that matches Sidney's tie, and every person in that auditorium is going to be drawing a straight visual line between them.





In the end, Emma wins for more plot-related reasons, but I was fascinated to see the work that went into the costuming here -- or to be more in-universe, the choices the characters made to present themselves. Really smart choices, for both of them. All Sidney had to offer was the fact that Regina would back his every play; all Emma had to offer was that she'd been doing the job and doing it well.

Funnily enough, a few episodes earlier Emma had mocked the idea of dressing like a proper deputy, and refused to do it:



Really fascinatingly? Emma almost never wears skirts. She's almost always in jeans and boots. Before this, the only time we saw her in a dress was when she was trying to convince someone she was a very specific kind of person, when she was capturing someone who'd jumped bail:



So putting on that skirt for this debate was a very, very deliberate act.


Next up, some visual Disney references.

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OUaT s1 picspam series

Part 1: Season one takes place in a forest

Part 2: Regina and Rumple: colors and castles

Part 3: Clothes make the match

Part 4: You are here!

Part 5: Disney references

Part 6: Bits and pieces

Comments

[inalasahl]

I am loving this series. Thank you so much for sharing!

[arduinna]

\o/ I'm so glad people are enjoying this -- there's just so much going on in this show!

[ariestess]

LOL! We are actually watching this episode right now as I've been reading this, so I've been running between the two rooms and giggling.

[arduinna]

*cracks up*

Talk about synchronicity! That's great. *g*

[ariestess]

*nods* I was LOLing hard.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't even watched more than a few episodes of OUaT, but this series is wonderful all on its own.

[arduinna]

Thank you!

[ainsley]

This series is fabulous, and has made me so much more interested in the series (which I already watched).

[arduinna]

Thank you! Really, I was just so fascinated when I started noticing all the stuff they'd worked into the background; it's an amazing amount of detail, and makes me very hopeful that they're strongly aware of the stories they're telling, and not just making it up as they go along.