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| Just where does that chair end and he begin? |
Film and television is reviewed, analysed and criticised from every perspective, most of the time the focus is chiefly on directing and acting and sometimes also special effects, music and cinematography. These days it seems everyone can be a reviewer; everywhere you look on the internet someone is giving their summary on the latest movies or listing their top ten favourite episodes, there are critics that specialise in nostalgia, art house cinema, horror, animation, you name it.
But where are the critics that specialised in costume? Who praises the unsung heroes of the design world? Who gets excited over historically accurate buttons? Who noted all the tiny details and translated their intended meaning?
The closest thing out there is
Clothes On Film…And that’s pretty much it.
Oh come on, really? People spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to dress up as their favourite characters at conventions and Halloween, whether we are conscious of it or not, the clothes really do make the man, we identify characters by their clothing just as much as any other aspect of them. At a mere glance, if a designer has done their job properly, we should be able to gain some information about the character.
Never fear, consider this niche filled by me, Courtney Coulson, costume designer (even studied it and everything!), cosplayer for seven years and owner of Costume Couture where I make costumes on commission. That sentence alliterative enough? Good, let’s begin then.
