Fashions and Harry Potter

[Muirnin Cocan]

I'm delurking for a bit after having read many of the debates going on with the clothing that Harry and Hermione wore in the movies...

First off I grew up in the era that James and Lily did... I was born in 1961... but I also like a great number of those commenting on the fashions am from the United States... I also was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area... I was there during the 'Summer of Love' or for those not informed... 1969...

Now as for how they dressed... Many people tend to forget that this is a story based in the UK... not the US... that said the trends of fashion in the UK are not the same as what we see in the US... many times they are before us in fashion (could possibly be due to being so close to the soul of fashion in Paris... but I digress).  I saw many things in San Francisco that would have shocked most people in the United States... for some bizarre reason we saw things from the UK almost a decade before people saw them in the rest of the US.

Case in point... 

Men wearing Ruffles

Many of the popular groups in the UK were wearing ruffles as part of their stage look during the 60's... but they did not even make an appearance at all until the late 70's early 80's... (for those needing an idea of who I speak... Moody Blues in the 60's Prince in the early 80's as an example.. there are others)

Hip Huggers... we wore them in the 60's... we wore them straight legged... we wore them bell bottomed... we were just NOT allowed to wear them to school... we had to wear skirts or dresses... I did not even get to wear my first pair of slacks (pants) to school until the early mid 70's... 

Zippered hooded jackets... Yup we wore those as well... in the 70's 80's  90's and even to this day... 

Sometimes we tend to look at things as being So OBVIOUS that we also tend to forget we are talking different cultures... Not every culture is going to have the same clothing time era. Just because you may not have worn something doesn't mean that it is forbidden to be of that era... 

But then... not everyone is looking at things through rose colored glasses either.  

If Harry or any of the Hogwarts crowd come out with a shirt that says something like RIP Princess Diana... I'll argue that it is out of place and not of the 'time' but I do not see that happening...

My biggest evidence of how the look of the movie is canon is that a certain writer from Scotland who writes certain books that we tend to debate every single word and frame of movie about said that POA was the most accurate when it came to how they dressed... She even said that she had always imagined when she wrote the books that the kids would wear muggle clothing under their school robes but that it did not look as convincing on screen... hence the need for School Uniforms... IN THE MOVIES.

Ok... I'm going back to Lurking again...

Peace,
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