sloppy school uniforms

verosomm verosomm at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 29 14:08:34 UTC 2004


I have to agree with Valerie here.... the clothes are much too 21st 
century to be taking place 10-11 years ago (the school year taking 
place 1993-1994).  

During that time, at least here in the states (I'm sure London 
could, literally, be worlds away, fashion-wise, at that time, so if 
it was I apologize) most of the teenage girls (I was a freshman in 
college at the time) were wearing oversized flannel shirts and baggy 
jeans with a mid or high-rise waist (not that you could see it, as 
the shirt was untucked over it), thanks to the band Pearl Jam and 
the entire grunge-music scene.  

We were NOT wearing low-rise, boot cut jeans with cute little pink 
(God forbid we wore anything in a girly color) hoodies, or in the 
case of the Patil twins, embroidered jean jackets (the fashion world 
didn't revisit the embroidery trend till the late 90's, early 
2000's).  If we wore cords (as Hermione did in the Hogsmeade scene) 
they were not fitted and boot-cut/ flared either; they were baggy, 
and we didn't carry cute purses; we carried hiking bakpacks, or 
maybe a backpack-inspired purse if we decided to "dress up".  

I don't really expect Hermione, so proper, to be wearing a flannel 
shirt and baggy jeans or carrying a huge backpack (unless it was 
filled with her books!), but the outfits she's wearing are 
definitely too futuristic for when this story is supposed to take 
place.

And the guys pretty much wore the same as us; the fashion-scene was 
very androgynous.  The were not wearing things like the cool retro-
revisited track jacket that Harry has on, and certainly not with 
dark khaki-colored chinos; definitely light-colored (stone-washed, 
but not acid-washed; that was late 80's), baggy jeans were the pants 
of choice.  

As for Ron, I thought he didn't look too fashionable for now OR a 
decade past, which would be more accurate given both his financial 
and wizarding status.  And while Harry's clothes were too "now" I 
didn't have too much of a problem with him having clothes that fit 
as maybe he decided to buy 1 Muggle outfit that fit after exchanging 
some of his Gringotts $ to pounds?  Maybe a b-day present to 
himself?  :)  Or more likely, too much to explain to the non-book-
reading audience, why his pants are 4 sizes too big.

Just My Two Knuts,
Veronica

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe 
<valerie.flowe at v...> wrote:
> I think what bugs me a bit about the drastic change in attire is 
that when
> the kids are in their "street clothes" it throws us into the 
Present. It's
> 2004; Hermione is wearing her fashion-conscious pink jacket and 
hiphugger
> jeans; Harry has on his sweats, jeans and hip Timberland-type 
shoes. Whereas
> in the first 2 movies, you have no clue what the time period of HP 
is. Even
> the attire of the Dursleys in Muggleworld make it look like it 
could be the
> 50's, 70's or Present. 





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