Mean Girls (2024) Fashion Crimes Against Humanity
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2024
- Hey guys in this video I talk about tmy opinion on the costuming in the new mean girls movie honestly it was rough.
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As a teen, nobody i know who is considered fashionable and cool dresses like plastics in the new movie
you know what i'm gonna go ahead and pin this expert opinion
yeah it was what ppl sorta wore when i was in high school (i’m 20)
It gives very much 2016
Janis is probably considered more fashionable than the plastics in this movie
its giving 2020 and it scares me
They’re not supposed to look like influencers, they’re supposed to BE influencers. That what the costume designers got wrong.
exactly
How would they even style that
@@AnaaaaaaatttttI guess getting costume designers involved. That instead of a stylist buying pieces off a TikTok linked fast fashion shop. The archival pieces from the og were made, the printed baby tees were made to avoid copyright and be unique.
To create something timeless you have to farm past trends and remix. Like how in the 60s there was a medieval revival. Or whenever an old silhouette gets popular again because fashion is cyclical.
To make unattainable style you look at heightened looks like Japanese street fashion, look at the hubs of society that are experimental and artistic. Again, Farm ideas and curate new remixes of it by blending other historical pieces and current trends together. Thus it’s timeless because something unique was created instead of putting mass produced pieces on your actors.
Doing the risky thing instead of the safe bet. If it’s not appreciated in current time people will respect the effort in retrospect.
@@Anaaaaaaatttttalix earl stuff
@@surette2012
Your comment just makes me mourn what this film could've been all over again. When I read that the Plastics were specifically styled in cheap trash because "that's what the kids are wearing these days" and I realized that it wasn't even budget constraints that screwed them over, but because the person in charge of costuming didn't understand the assignment -- I'm disappointed all over again.
the fact that they changed reginas wardrobe so that men and women can be attracted to her as if women aren't attracted to feminine women too 💀
exactly! so strange and honestly kind of offensive?
Fr..💀
Speaking of this, the film "bottoms" characters Isabel & Brittany, who were the attractions of the main lesbian characters had very feminine looks 🙌.
….What?
Can you please explain what you mean by that, genuinely? Are you suggesting that they made her more masculine so that women can "also" be attracted to her? I just have trouble understanding because she is still feminine and also the actress is a lesbian who says she meant to portray her as a comphet lesbian, so if anything she's only meant to be attractive to lesbians and sapphics, not men in any sense of the word? Also where did they even state this?
I just came to to tell you “On Wednesdays we wear Shein” is more iconic than anything said in that movie.
😂😂 thank youuuu 💕
@@chisom. yeah you ate with the title. I had already decided not to watch this movie but I couldn’t help to tune into this video simply because of the title alone😭
I just love the reference. 💖
@@chisom. the way i CACKLE every time i see this video's thumbnail lmao
@@CrystalLovesChristokay but same down to a t, I could not care less for this remake but I saw this video and tuned in bc of that😂😂
Gretchen should have had the old money aesthetic
Oooo agreed!
But her dad invented the toaster strudel 😭 he's new money
@@alita8900Maybe back then, but as someone who's English, our generations style isn't that.
@@sandy_carpetsthesecond5013yh but Gretchen is American, isnt she? Im German living in the UK, i can Tell you that what people THINK british people Dress Like vs reality is hilarious.
It would make total Sense to me If the rich plastic Girl tried to basically Cosplay rich british Girlie and get it wrong
@@annabeinglazy5580 Yeah, but if she's obsessed, and considering that she's rich, I'd argue there's a chance that Gretchen may have been to England first hand.
Plus, with how social she is, I highly doubt she wouldn't have met atleast one English person who's corrected her on it.
did they forget that Gretchen was supposed to be a huge anglophile and just obsessed with British culture? in the og movie she's saying British slang and wearing Burberry, she's supposed to be super fake even in aesthetics
Yeah, I agree, her style was my favorite (that and she wore orange). And like I don’t mind if they don’t get like a ton of high end clothing (this film was originally going to be streaming, I think, so it has a lower budget), but like the film Jawbreaker, they likely could have gotten vintage clothing.
@@adamsmoberly@adamsmoberly The fact they just shopped through TikTok and Instagram shows how little effort they made in costuming. It's so disappointing.
@@adamsmoberly I just don't understand why they didn't take advantage of the total y2k revival that is taking place. so many elements from the og movie(low rise jeans,baby purses,mini skirts,tracksuits) could've been used and be found at a decent price
tbh, gretchen’s styling in this movie bothered me the most because her styling is literally no different from karen. i literally thought she was karen when i first saw the trailer, like the actual gretchen simply would not go out wearing an outfit where you can see her bra, not at all.
@@hakaze6269 I thought the same thing too. She looked too cute and sweet like Karen in the photo used for the thumbnail on this video. Honestly, that actress should have been Cady, but they put the girl from the newest Spider-Man movies in as her, likely due to people knowing her. Which is sad, because I heard she can’t sing where as Gretchen’s actress can from what I heard (I’d wait till this comes to streaming to watch). I think Gretchen’s actress should have been Cady, Cady’s actress should have been Karen (not only does she looks like she could be Amanda’s cousin with her big doe eyes, but I think she could play Karen well), and put Karen’s actress as Gretchen (who I think could play her really well). And I think they should have done with the costume designer of Jawbreaker did and had the girls dress in vintage clothing from thrift shops. But I heard the costume designer wanted the kids to look “normal and not like Euphoria threw up on them”, which Mary Jane Fort (the original film’s costume designer) actually had clothing that wasn’t high end sprinkled in, it was just paired better. Honestly sad the new costume designer didn’t think of putting the new girls in outfits that made sense and kept his own agenda that basically ruined the film’s costuming.
They clearly were 50 yr old men who took a look at instagram, got a SHEIN ad and thought yes! This is what ppl wear nowadays
literally
This is funny to me because the costume designers literally said they looked at instagram clothing ads for inspiration
@@youre764no way what ☠️☠️
I mean that is actually what happened and the costume designer for the thing even said that he just went and bought a bunch of stuff from Sheen because that’s what people wear today and I’m like oh man that’s wrong on so many levels, as the video pointed out, it is their responsibility to do better, and it just feels so lazy and unimaginative and looks awful on screen, there’s no elevation and no interest
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so I'm an old millennial who was the age of the characters in the first movie when it came out, and the things the ordinary, background students were wearing was EXACTLY what we were wearing. the Plastics were stylized and glamorous and a little over the top, which represents what they were supposed to be; they shouldn't look like the extras.
And the fact some of the outfits The Plastics were wearing were hand made *the costume designer made the slogan tees so they wouldn’t have to deal with copyright* These girls looked like 2021 threw up on them. I don’t mind seeing new ideas in costumes to go with the times, but when Janis and Damian are the best dressed in your film, there’s an issue. That bra under the black dress Candy wore in the original irks me though, it looks so odd.
This comment ^^
@@adamsmoberlyI wish they switched that dress up… I know it’s iconic, but the bra straps showing with a strapless dress was very early 2000’s and not something you catch people doing today
@@blairg8171 That’s what I mean, I don’t like how it looked, it looked odd, especially with that dress (but I assume they did it to keep Lindsey covered, since it was such a tight dress and she is a busty woman). I actually got into a group called A*Teens that was out at that time and one of the members in one of their music videos (Floorfiller) actually wore a strapless top and bra like that and it looked really cool. But for the most part (and that fad with the thong pulled out of the pants that became popular in the last 3 years, despite I recall it being such a small fad 20 years ago) I think it should stay in the past.
@@adamsmoberly exactly
i think one of the main things with regina’s new fashion especially is the silouhettes. the fashion from the plastics in the original accentuated their beauty heavily and gave them that sort of runway model look, which is completely lost when you slap regina in baggy pants that make her look like hipster art student barbie. it really doesnt make her look chic or like an it girl at all
EXACTLYYY
@@chisom.Ngl I think yall missed the fact that people were literally body shaming renee even when she was on Broadway in the og costume. She's not a size zero which Regina is supposed to be so they have to find ways to do this plot without flat out making it seem like Renee's natural body is unhealthy. Baggy pants cos she thick baggy tops cos she's got curves. But best believe that Wednesday outfit is over $2000
She's not that big or curvy. I've seen bigger celebrities and instagram wearing better styled outfits. So no. The stylist even was commented as saying basically they didn't care because they didn't wanna make it like Euphoria and that real teens roll out of bed basically in what they went to bed in, paraphrasing and so forth but it read as I don't care about any of this and trying too hard to be 'relateable.' which the plastics are not. They're purposely dressed unrealistically put together to get across their elevation above the rest.@@kaylalezine2295
@@kaylalezine2295i honestly don’t think that’s a good excuse if anything that means they’ve known for a while that the new regina isn’t a size 0 so they should’ve had ample time to get a stylist who knows how to style someone who isn’t stick thin 🤷🏽♀️ putting ‘bigger’ celebrities in baggy clothes just further pushes the idea that bigger ppl can’t be fashionable. it was definitely a way to still style regina super femme even with her not size 0 body type
@@kaylalezine2295 I get that Renee is not a size small, but just because she bigger does not mean they couldn't make her outfits 'Glamourous'.
I feel like they missed a chance here to make this movie more influential to show that bigger bodies can also be glamourous and it girl-worthy. They could have taken notes from Kat from Euphoria..
the fact that the stylists for the movie themselves said that they looked for the fashion through tiktok and instagram because "this is how teenagers dress nowadays" and "this is how teenagers look for fashion nowadays" and it's like seriously? you can't be fr rn.
Fr I see more teens that like the "y2k" style and other alt styles and I don’t see many wear outfits like THAT 😭
i feel like that saying alone just makes it seem like they didnt really wanna put too much thought into the clothing choices 😟
Missing the point of The Plastics being icons
they must be lying cus i’ve seen teens on tiktok dress better than the characters here
@@hakaze6269 they must've looked at those cider ads or something
The fact that they’re trying to convince us Regina would use ELF is hilarious! It wouldve been so iconic if they got Too Faced for the product placement, cuz obvi..
i LOVE this idea
Yesss
or Charlotte Tillbury
@urmomvia that's what i was thinking
or Dior (Regina def would’ve had the lip glow oil 🤭💕)
The plastiques in 2024 would be bullied for their basic shein outfits
Especially since fast fashion is looked-down upon. It's more believable if they got some exclusive luxury brands and lied that they thrifted it for the clout
@@natanaga9892
Fr! Fast fashion made me hate shopping more than I already do. I got a few things from Shein on Christmas and it was a mistake. The baggy cargo jeans I got were nice but that’s about it 💀
I don't think they should've straight out copied the original's fashion, but damn, the fashion in the remake is atrocious! The creators completely missed the fact that the plastics aren't supposed to have "attainable" fashion: they're rich trendsetters!
Exactly! everyone else in the cafeteria had clothing that most or a lot would have but if you look at their clothing it straight up screams: Tailored for us
i hate how much polyester/polyblends the characters are in 😭 did the stylist not know how much class and fashion are intertwined? and how impactful fashion was in the original? its so disappointing lol
I feel like they looked at instagram influencers feeds as research and not actual research😭
@@alexdavis360apparently they did! folks are saying they got their fashion inspo from tiktok and shit 😭
Polyester is so uncomfortable and bad for the planet. A real crime to humanity
right?? its so asscheeks
@@alexdavis360stop because that’s literally what they did, they said they looked at fucking instagram clothing ads for inspiration to “get in the head of a popular teenage girl”
the fact that "vintage forever 21" came out of your mouth has me rethinking life bro
that got me bad too lol I'm so old.
haha this made me giggle but yeah the brand been out over 40 years atp
@cherrriASMRi just said that said that to say some of their clothes have reached "vintage status" by now
its so funny because when they said "it was my moms in the 80's" "Vintage! so adorable." thats twenty years from then too! but hearing something from the 2000's is vintage send me into a headspin lol@@chisom.
@cherrriASMR not to be a nerdy guy but actually the og movie WILL gonna be considered "vintage" because after 20-99 years. it's vintage. 100+ is antique. scary, right?
Regina’s styling just proves that some Hollywood stylists still don’t know how to dress curvier bodies. Renee Rap has a beautiful body that would’ve looked so incredible in pieces that accentuated her curves. Esp since Regina is supposed to be a confident trend setter. She would be embracing her curves and flaunting them, not hiding them in baggy cargo pants!
She is tall and fxt. Lets be honest. Never in a million years a girl like her would be the hottest girl in school😂😂
Right?? My 16 yo ass would've been a better stylist
I saw that the wardrobe department said that they bought a lot of stuff from tiktok and instagram because "that's what the kids do these days" which is just so stupid. I think they should have had the plastics dressed in luxary brands, elevated above all the other kids and had Cady, after joining them, wearing the obviously cheaper versions. I think that would have added to the story because obviously Cady can't keep up with them financially but if she was wearing similar but obviously cheaper versions it could add that layer without having to come outright and say it.
I mean the whole element to the Mean Girls story is Cady "learning" what it means to be a girl and ultimately how damaging it is for everyone in that structure to be told what you are and how to be. She's the audiences eyes into this story, to the challenges and politics of being a teenage girl and how cruel and difficult it can be. I think they had such an opportunity to speak to the challenges of what young girls go through these days, especially with the influence of social media. I guess they just got older and out of touch??
damn they should've hired you
did the whole wardrobe department not watch mean girls? damn
This Regina is so rich that she can afford Shein express shipping!
LMFAO
I wasnt rich in high school in the slightest and I wore a lot of the plaid type of shirts cady did, but like in a casual cool way with cool graphic tank tops in early high school. That was in the early 2010s though when tumblr hipster was a thing.. you know the black skinny jeans, the cool tank and the shirt.. Like you dont have to dress expensive to dress cool. Later in the 2010s i wore the mini skirts and tops the plastics did.. a plastics skirts cost me maybe $40.. a cool top 30.. and fishnets because it added to the intentional trashy plastic factor.
re-shein-a george
@@user-ss4ek3zo4d My name is Re-Shein-a George I am a massive deal…
the scene where Regina is in all leather was legit horrifying to me like girl wtf are you wearing 💀
literally likee
It kinda looked like a trash bag 😭
@@glimmerthesilkwing6067 NAHH YOUR SO RIGHT 😭
not leather... plastic. that's what PU leather is.
IKR? I found Renee hot, but that leather outfit was so not it!
@glimmerthesilkwing6067 I THOUGHT THE SAME THING WHEN I FIRST WATCHED IT 😭
Their budget was 36 million dollars... And to think the original’s budget was 17-18 million, which is half of their budget, and still the clothing was substantially better.
Their budget for the 2004 movie was $18 million. Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate for inflation, their budget back then would have had the same buying power as $30 million now. So the budget for the latest movie was actually only around $6 million more when we take inflation into account.
@@violetcolouredglasses 6 million dollars is still quite a lot
They spent most of that on producers and rights. They probably had $6000 for the wardrobe of the entire cast 😭
you finding receipts for all the outfits is sending me 😭
had to 😭
RIGHT like I was GAGGED 🤮
I feel like a brand like Miu Miu could have worked so well
Agree
I feel like Karen would be mui mui tho
Would big-name brands like Fendi and Balenciaga also work with the Plastics?
@@VanNessy97 fendi maybe but balenciaga. balenciaga has a very dark and gothic feeling
They could have at least used the trend towards "aesthetics" to give the Plastics modern styles without going out of character. Gretchen = light academia, 'old money', Regina = 'clean girl', Karen = maybe cutesy/coquette?
yess!!! or like the y2k aesthetic, it wldve made sense + its becoming popular again now
i kinda agree though i could never see karen wearing something as intricate as coquette. she’s got a very simple understanding of fashion and dresses pretty childish, with texture or patterns and such
Tbh I doubt the costumers of this movie have even seen the names of these aesthetics
I would say Regina will have clean girl with siren aesthetics cz she wear black in the mix!
This comment is spot on! 💯
I honestly don't remember Cady's party dress, it didn't get given a moment to show it off in like they did in the 2004 film. Also for some reason they put Cady in loads of blue in this film, and they did a poor job of showing her gradually transitioning to 'Plastic' style
it was very brief, i couldn't get any footage cause the movies still in theaters but it was very similar to the first one, a black mini with pink bra showing
and yes! i feel like in the first movie she had a lot of varieties of more stylish outfits, in the one she kind of dressed ugly most of the way through
It was probably to mainly try and contrast red (her hair) and blue (along w/ some other colors the could've did) as somewhat complementary to help her overall look but that's just my guess
So trueee, I feel like blue definitely was not the right colour to put her in for the scene mentioned. Even though it complements her hair nicely and really suits her, blue is a calm colour and it doesn’t say danger like it should. She should have worn a brighter colour or even just pink to go with the plastics theme
Maybe they should have went with green? I’ve heard that it compliments red.
and the ELF product placement was so distracting lol. Rich Regina would never use ELF. it'd make more sense if it was Kylie or something lol
True! It wouldve been iconic if they went with Too Faced, cuz you know..,
Yeah it should’ve been Fenty or, like the former comment said, Too Faced
Or Dior and Charlotte tilbury
@@BleachBlue04Too Faced is perfect for them omg
Dior, YSL, Marc, Nars or Chanel would fit her
I was literally gagging in shock when I saw "Regina's" outfits for the first time, like OG Regina would bully tf out of this "Regina" if she saw her
literally
This comment is so corny why is it everywhere 😭 OG Regina didn't do anything to ppls faces, saying shed be “bullying” the new Regina is a stretch, she's the type to act right and face and then chat when you're not around. In the OG she was only openly rude to ppl in her circle to keep up appearances of being a sweet pretty girl that everyone looks up to. In the new one Regina is much ruder and doesnt hide abt it which is odd for reginas character cuz how would she get reverence and ppl wanting to be around her if shevdoednt hide the fact she's a mean girl. Like Regina is meant to be manipulative and two faced 😭so if anything the OG one would talk and then the new Regina would be confrontational and put it to rest.
@@tonystonem9614 ok…?
@@tonystonem9614you thought you did smth
She'll be like, "where the f, did you find these knockoffs" 😎
~ RM Regina George
Completely agree with you.
I think that they didn´t understand that the plastics don´t follow fashion trends, they make the trends. They are not supposed to look like teens nowadays, they are supposed to be what every girl in the school want to be. Put them in some Gucci, Burberry, Louis Vuitton, make them look like it´s impossible to look like them.
Almost every main girl in Euphoria looks like what the plastics are supposed to look like.
Lost me at that last sentence, those definitely aren't mean girls vibes either
The thing is, the stuff they wear in the movie isn't a basic teen outfit. I've never seen a real life teen wear that in public, especially to school. I guess it's what they assume teens nowadays look like, but in reality most of the girls would be wearing sweat pants, T shirts, and hoodies. Their point of being "realistic" doesn't even make sense at all.
@@gianna526I don’t know about your neighborhood but I grew up upper class, and we all 100 percent did dress like this and I’m 23 so I think it’s where you live. I lived in a rich college town and sure some kids didn’t dress nice but they all had name brands, luxury cars, huge houses. My best friend got a custom McLaren when she turned 16 and literally drove it to school everyday lol
since gretchen was so Burberry obsessed in the OG i think putting her in vintage vivienne westwood would've been preppy but trendy for 2024, it woul'de been so cute
This is the one time where they could have gone full Euphoria for the plastics and it would have made sense in-universe and they didn't.
Agree with everything! It's totally possible to have used trend prediction and analysis to costume the characters in a way that feels contemporary but doesn't date the film - micro trends should have been avoided, it's wild that they fell into this trap.
I also saw an interview snippet where they said they got the clothes from IG and TikTok shop, yikes!
i truly don't think the had anyone under the age of 30 in that room cause i feel like this could have been sooo easily avoided, like i shouldn't be able to tell from watching it the exact six month span it was created
for me its just crazy cuz if you don't wanna make an iconic mean girls musical (lets be honest it was pretty mid) then at least make the fashion good?!?!? isn't that what mean girls are about? regina's outfits were a fucking crime honestly like i didn't want to believe they were real
honestly like they need to pick a struggle, clothes are SUCH an important part of the movie 🥲
The movie was fire. I can't comment on the fashion because I don't know shit about women's fashion, but the movie as a whole was Solid AF. Tina Fey knew what she was doing with this one, same way she did with the original.
@@NinteddyRose💀
@@pioxia777 it was pretty good but not like mean girls. They're different but with the same plot
@@NinteddyRose at best, it’s just ok when you compare it to the air tight screenplay of the original.
4:18 BYE THE BUTTERFLY SOCKS LOOK LIKE SOMETHING MY MOM WOULD TRY TO GET ME FROM THE CHILDRENS PLACE 😭😭
😭😭😭
To be fair, Karen IS simple and childish.
Its so embarrassing that euphoria was way more accurate / trend setting fashion than the new mean girls ): not shitting on euphoria, its just mean girls has a lot of plot ABOUT young women's aesthetic pressure
exactly
4:50 literally this! the mall scene is such basic symbolism of the plastics all blending together and wearing the "proper" "feminine" clothes - any of them could switch outfits and not look out of place - and cady sticks out like a sore thumb even though she technically IS wearing pink. having the plastics having completely different vibes means that if they had that "four in a row" walking thru the mall thing cady would look like part of them
Omg omg thank you so much for noting that the plastics were NOT supposed to be dressed as typical teens!! In the original movie, every other girl in school (outside of the hot Asians lol) were in tennis shoes and normal clothes- the plastics wear heels and mini shirts and very specific accessories. So to dress them like updated teens is already missing the mark! They should have been in quiet luxury PERIOD!
As a self proclaimed fashionista, I agree. If I (a regular student with NO experience with costume design except watching Mina Le’s videos) can style 100% better than the professional, there is something deeply wrong 😭
i worked on background for this movie from start to finish. and the costume designing was absolutely terrible. the designers view on how gen z dresses today was so far off. i remember accidentally critiquing what one of the costume people put me in and she said, “we’re trying to make everyone in the cast look like they’re in high school, so no heels 🤓”. like girl plz. anyways they had no sense of fashion, and would all pull up in the same business casual outfit while pairing it with converse and a beanie and thinking they looked cute asf
that's so insane
Ooooo interesting how did u get the role??
@@meghansullivan6812 i found the casting company on a website and i submitted to it. but they were looking for background on casting networks and backstage
so the bras showing is okay but no heels huh? lmao
@@spntageous5249 I think it was a background only costuming note. but a lot of their style choices just made no sense
Yes on Janice’s character!!! That actually made me the most angry lol. They tried to make janice equally hot for the male gaze and thats not what her character was
Janice was definitely not done up for the male gaze auli'i said she had alot of creative freedom with Janice's costumes and she wanted her outfits to be art as well in a way.
@@kaylalezine2295 i hear ya. I just feel like the 2024 version really missed the mark with fashion and styling the movie. 🤷♀️
What males💀
I'm annoyed at Janice no longer being goth. She's not supposed to look like a Tiktok e-girl, her look was in the original movie was suprisingly actually edgy.
they messed up on her entire character
I would’ve styled Gretchen in old money clothing, Regina in Barbie core and Karen in bubblegum coquette!
“renee rapp wanted to be in pants more” why even audition for regina atp ? 😭 you can count on one hand how many times she wears pants in the OG movie 🧍🏽♀️
Shes played regina in the broadway musical
2019-2020 so she decided/they chose her to be in the musical movie
Regina wore a lot of pants in the musical but it still gave expensive where as the new movie just kinda flopped with it.
she was literally regina on broadway.
The people saying “shE wAs rEgINA oN bRoADwAy” are missing the point. Acting on Broadway and in film are two distinctly different things that require different skill sets. It doesn’t matter who she played on Broadway, because if she wasn’t willing to dress like Regina in the film, she shouldn’t have auditioned. Christ 🙄
@@xxxmaysilssss690 she wore pants on broadway too 😭 it is NOT renee’s fault that the stylists don’t know how to do style pants and make it look good. regina george is allowed to wear pants.
its basically the Winx case all over again
trueee
We don't talk about that reboot anywhere 😑.
@@Sun.Shine-I know that’s right, they looked SOOO OLD
STAHP 😩✋🏿
The phrase "vintage forever 21" hurts my back
I agree with you about the high heels part. Although I think if they were going to make the plastics wear sneakers, those sneakers should've at least been Gucci, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton, or Golden Goose sneakers. Not something that look like KEDS.
I’m in between gen z and millennial, and I think it’s hilarious that gen z think trends they wear are actually going to be representative of the generation in the future. The trends we see with Y2K fashion is either stand out fashion (ie NOT average everyday wear) or worn so much by everyone over a long period of time that it ingrained into our brains. I remember patchwork Bermuda shorts being everywhere but it’s not a trend now because it was a flash in the pan of my specific demographic…teens weren’t wearing heels to school en masse. They didn’t wear micro skirts and baby tees everyday either. They basically dressed like Bella from twilight and Scott McCall from teen wolf from 02-12. You should not be able to find queen bee Regina George’s outfits easily. Extremely common eventually becomes staple. Unobtainable is memorable. Even having everything she owns be actually thrifted at a fancy shop would be better than this.
I will say as a costume designer - a lot of our work gets limited by 1. Production costs, 2. Production timeline, 3. Creative input by directors/producers/people more powerful than us. I checked Wikipedia and principal photography literally took one month. March - April 2023. That’s like… no time. The costume designer (who is awarded) is a white guy who’s career highlights are SNL and 30 Rock. I’m not surprised that we ended up with the cheap Shein / Walmart type costumes between Tina Fey going with a costume designer she likes, not one who would suit the aesthetic of the movie, the short filming period, and the big corporation sponsorships like Walmart influencing the costumes.
(My 2 cents)
(I’ve costumed plays that looked more expensive on a significantly, exponentially cheaper budget lol)
(Production costs + production timeline are big reasons why the new Lord of the Rings show costumes looked so bad! Directors/producers/studios keep asking costume designers to create wardrobes with very short turnaround to reduce costs)
Thank you for your insight. I think that they could've found more fashionable outfits at Walmart and at least we could then all be mad at corporate sponsorships instead of the direction they went in.
I agree completely. Everything in the movie felt...budgeted. The plastics should've gone for the Y2K resurgence vibe with mini skirts, baby tees, and they could've each had an individualized aesthetic within this. Everything they wore looked like it was from a cheap fast-fashion brand and it did not look 'put together' imo. And I really wish they gave Janis that alt-gothic style with a lot vintage pieces and old band tees. Of course I don't expect it to be exactly like the original, but it felt lacking in authenticity.
as a high school senior the fashion reeked of my 2021-2022 school year, the current trendy fashion at least where I'm at (vegas) for the last 2ish years has been bold makeup looks, the grunge aesthetic of 2014, and the late 90s-2000s and I guess I could also include the academic "old money" aesthetic as I do see a lot of people emulating that aesthetic.
God I hope Tumblr grunge comes back
i graduated 23 and yes!!! it’s just funny because i feel like as soon as a lot of the shein stuff really showed up, it immediately went out of fashion.
@@doubleh333lixThe SHEIN stuff is what gen-z gonna find embarrassing when they get older I bet.
Why they don't make a new movie instead of recreating everything 💀
I agree. I was in HS when the first movie came out. Nobody dressed like that and that's one reason they were iconic. The plaid skirt outfit Cady wears when she falls in the trash! I still think about that outfit
def expected more miu miu in this movie...
maybe even alexis mabille,
like if they had on one of HIS pink things for the prom scene it wouldn’t have been such an eyesore.
"I literally found the dress on shien" 💀💀💀💀lmfaoooo
I didn’t care about the “fashion” but I’m happy to know I’m not the only one who thought they put Regina in some of the fugliest outfits
I think if they had used blue to show Cady taking over in a better way (the other plastics starting to wear blue rather than pink) and also putting Cady in actually good blue-centric outfits, it could’ve been way better. Also having the movie end with Gretchen and Karen in a color that isn’t blue or pink to show that they’re becoming their own characters.
When considering the explanations they gave for the costuming I think they should've...
1. Partnered with Target, not Walmart. Trust me there is a difference.
2. Tailored the clothes DUH
3. Hired they OG designer/stylist or someone closely connected to her.
I don't like how they just completely stripped away the og characters individual styles instead of modernising them. I feel like they could've given old money inspired outfits to Gretchen, or some coquette influences to Karen. I feel like just taking influence from modern aesthetics they probably would've leaned towards would've made them seem more fashionable rather than cultivating a general "2020 fashion" and plastering it on all of them
It’s like the costume designer for the new Mean Girls (which didn’t need to exist in the first place) saw how enormous fast fashion is among Gen Z and said “let’s make it look like the Plastics do weekly Shein hauls.” It makes no sense. They’ve completely demolished the way that the Plastics’ individual personalities were represented in the original film by instead swathing them in cheap polyesters and other synthetic blends. None of it makes sense.
Also I’m dying to know where you got that cherry necklace because I NEED IT!
I was expecting 2024 version of Regina George would be showered in Chanel, Prada or Versace (I think these brands have the most chic, "mean girls" looking outfits)
But surprisingly, she's covered with the stuff on sale from Forever 21 lol
And elf?? Really? Not even MAC? I cannot believe 😂😂
the ELF was so crazy to me likeee
I feel like they had the perfect well to pull from when all of the Alabama rush/sorority content was trending on tiktok. Like those girls are the perfect venn diagram of straight, white, upper class, trendy, and self-policing that mean girls was about and they just... didn't.
Agree on all counts!!! I walked out of the theater asking why all those kids shopped at Shein and Wish.
same i was so disturbed i had to make a video about it lol
Coming in with the screenshot receipts. Loved this xD
LOL i had too 😭
Most of the teenagers in my club considered 'fashionable/popular' all wear k-fashion inspired clothes...
Literally subscribed after watching 2 min. I’ve seen so many videos about this movie, but no one has talked this in depth about the fashion! I literally searched the web for a breakdown like this 😭❤️
Thank you 😊 I was looking for one too i was so surprised nobody else had said anything
I haven’t seen the new Mean Girls, but from the clips you showed; the new one looks so…. Childish? When the original came out (I was in high school) and I was SO inspired by the outfits that the plastics wore.
yeah there was definitely no inspiration in the new one
Regina doesn’t follow trends, she SETS the trends. I remember that boxed shoulder CEO top she wore- she was the leader of that damn school.
1:54 I think do revenge is a great example of a modern teen movie that had incredible fashion
i personally hated it. it felt similar to the mean girls wardrobe as well.
how? Their uniforms were very colorful and memorable @@zeenie5489
i love the do revenge pastel colours
Actually do revenge was a breath of fresh air, with their styling. I loved Andrea's clothing the most.
I think bottoms did good styling too!
I always got the impression too that Gretchen had more moeny than regina, like her designer was more "old money" design (i.e. burberry) over Regina's Juicy Couture... like she was richer, more preppy, more put together, and could have been the "Regina" if she was confident. Which you see at the end when she does sort of become the queen bee.
exactlyyyy
If rene or whatever wanted to wear pants and not skirts then...acting as Regina was not for her they should have casted another girl
literally
So true! Reminds me of when Emma Watson refused to wear a corset as Belle. Good for you but you can't just change what the character would wear. And it's weird because Renee wore all the iconic Regina outfits on Broadway so she can handle it.
@@gianna526except they can and they have. Find a way to cope ig go watch the originals if it's so soul crushing 😭 I loved Belles og dress and would've loved to see it but it didn't happen and getting pissed at actors, sending hate and wishing they were never casted for stuff like this is really jobless behaviour
Bro before the video started I got a SHEIN ad 💀
nooo
I just know for a fact that if the OG Regina were a Gen Z she would hell be eating up girls who wear Shein 💀
I agree so much with everything you said. The whole movie just looks cheap with the fashion & the cinematography while the OG Mean Girls just looks timeless.
As someone from Vancouver, Canada - if it was set here the plastics would’ve been wearing Aritzia!! That’s always been the sign of quietly wealthy popular girls here haha
The problem with updating Janice’s look for 2024 is that in 2004 alt fashion was distinctly different from mainstream fashion. Today, “alt” fashion is basic/mainstream.
I feel like they filmed this movie in 2020 and just released it in 2024
had to have 😭
NO. I actually hate whoever did the costuming for the film. I went on Cider to see how much of the clothing pieces they used for the costuming were from there and I saw the knitted top Janis wore for her I'd Rather Be Me musical number, and WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. The styling for that knitted top that they showed on the site literally screams more Janis than the styling they did in the movie. Couldn't they have just followed the one on the site!? This is how I realize they really didn't give a fuck about making this movie remotely remarkable.
As someone who actively dislikes trend cycles I disagree with the whole "i hope teens dont dress like this" thing, but absolutely the plastics would NEVER wear something outdated like they do in this movie
most disappointing fits were Janice tho, they dressed her up at best like someone slightly edgy going to a music festival
0:17 this. Is. What. I’ve. Been. Saying. Literally in an interview they said they took inspo from the fact that teens these days wear “pajamas” and clothes from various fast fashion outlets💀. While a lot of people do wear fast fashion like SHEIN they didn’t take into account the many aesthetics associated with todays teens. As a teen from today I was so disappointed to see all the weird patterns and clunky costuming a and lack luster copying of y2k, grunge, alternative, or street wear inspirations that I see in school etc. We combine styles to fit how we want to present, and they rly just went with ill fitting stuff that was so weird. I think the movie Bottoms does a good job showing this variety, it’s rly worth checking out even if for the fits alone. But yea this movie was uper icky. 😕🙏🏾
i lovedddd bottoms the fashion didn't set of any alarms in my head i could actually enjoy the movie
It's amazing that 2000s clothing is considered "good quality" now. When I was a teenager in the 2000s, I learned how to sew and got into thrifting because the stuff that was available was awful! The cuts were terrible-- no curves whatsoever. At 115 lbs, I felt "fat" trying to wear 2000s fashions, but beautiful wearing clothes from the 1950s-1980s! To this day, I low key hate 2000s clothes because of the whole eating disorder aspect (they don't look good on healthy, normal curves like a 115 lb teenager would have). My favorite era actually ended up being the 1910s once I got really into buying old patterns-- 1910s sewing patterns consistently fit me with zero alterations, and at first I didn't know why. Then I watched a video about fashion history, and it turns out the ideal that decade was a 10 inch difference between the bust and waist-- which is what I naturally have when I'm healthy! IDK how I ended up with the 1910s shape even without a corset, but to this day, I HATE the straight seams that made shirts in the 2000s either pull in the bust area or hang so loose in the waist area that I looked fat! And I hate the low-rise jeans even more-- I didn't want to have plumber's crack, and I didn't want to see anyone else's crack. So yeah-- very, very weird to have 2000s stuff considered "high-quality vintage" when that term was reserved for stuff like couture 1960s finds when I was a teenager!
I'll also say that for some reason, the fashions I hated most were roughly from 2000-2007. Around 2008, there were skinny jeans that were more fitted and covered the ass crack better lol. I followed *some* trends between 2008 and 2019, but a lot of the stuff I made still kept pulling from 1890-1990 because it's more timeless.
We get it, you sew and you're so much better than others because you dress in "true vintage" cuts that fit a 'curvy shape', modern fashion sucks, so on, so forth. We all knew a girl like you. Ones that rued the modern trends, materials and cuts, and typed up long paragraphs on their own vintage 'old styles were so much better (bonus if something about compliments from men is added in as well)' journey. You know. The more hyperspecialised fanatics of the 'timeless and classic' church... when nobody bloody asked.
Early 2000's clothes *were* good quality. Just because they didn't fit your body type, it doesn't mean that the quality was bad.
The denim was indestructible, most t-shirts were 100% cotton, and even plastic leather would last you for years without peeling.
I used to buy the cheapest clothes available and I would throw them away when I literally got tired of wearing them. Nowadays clothes seem to disintegrate.
To this day I buy late '90's/early 2000's pieces of clothing whenever I get the chance (especially jeans).
@marim6087 This was entirely unnecessary. Nothing in this comment could be taken that way, you're just a pick me. Saying that you were forced to learn how to sew because nothing fits your body is not bragging. "We all knew a girl like you" you don't know her! You're just a pathetic, mean person that enjoys putting women down because you think people being happy is them 'being better than you'. Grow up, you sound like you're still in middle school or something.
@@Killjoy_Mel you took this too seriously its a youtube comment and your putting experiences from other girls on this person
Then again, the clothes that did survive like 20 years and did not get worn out or thrown out in the meantime probably are on the better side of quality than others from that time.
It's unfortunate to have to bring it up, and I absolutely do not intend to body shame Rapp, but I think her figure did play a role in the poor fashion choices. I think the movie's costume designers just didn't know how to dress her. As meh as everyone's outfit is in this, at least the others have clothes that fit right. Rapp's clothing are oddly baggy because they weren't tailored to her measurements, and it just feels like the designers panicked and threw as many high-waist pants straight off the rack at her because they read somewhere that it was "slimming". They did her dirty :(
it's clear that there were no gen z behind the outfits
just imagine if they wore vintage or like balletcore inspired looks
they never wanna listen to us 😭
for the shoes although heels would be great, imo they could go for some stylish chunky shoes. I feel like the mini skirt/big sneakers combo or smth like leg warmers/big loafers would look nice. Maybe some platform with flared jeans if they want more pants? It's still pretty popular (at least from what I've seen) and it can be an ode to the feel of y2k without actually dating the film. They should really take notes from Do Revenge costuming tbh
p.s. I just wanna say your necklace is really cute. Where did you get it if you don't mind me asking?
you have a lot of really good ideas 💡
and my necklace is from Amazon!
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I think giving a gen z spin on the outfits would be nice buuuuut if Regina was going to be in pants, if any of them were in pants they should’ve been in lulu lemon flares totally dressed up. Like a really nice high end top and flares.
Ugh, I'm so glad someone addressed the infuriating fashion. I'm in my early 30s, always been into alt fashion, and actually try to avoid trends (like, if I see something I like is trendy, I'll wait until it's out of trend to wear it), but when I saw the fashion in this movie, I was like, "Ewie, it's so out of touch it's embarrassing". The girls look like cheap fashion dolls. And, if the young actresses were able to have input, they should have informed the stylist that these clothes are neither suited to their characters... Nor attractive at all. Of course, Janice was my favorite character with my favorite fashion when I was younger. This Janice is so basic, but ironically manages to be more trendy than the Plastics. It's such a mess.
They should've gotten pointers from the stylists on Euphoria. Its ALL anybody could talk about and they replicated for months after it came out. THATS what a trend setter does. They make conversation. They set the tone. And everyone follows.
I think the reason for the bad clothing designs was due to the fact the film, I think was going to be a streaming film before being dumped into theaters in January (which is bad, because that’s when crap is thrown into theaters). And the Shein comparison isn’t off the mark, because I think the outfits were by Cider, which is very similar to Shein. I think Modern Gurlz talked about it more in their review. I mean the original film had cheaper clothing too, but a lot of it was also custom to the film. And honestly, it’s irksome, because the only characters who had good style are Janis and Damian…like that insane.
I feel like they shouldve done smth like euphorias fashion
7:15 it looks like she skinned the Grinch and wore him as a sweater 😭😭😭
LMAO 😭😭
What makes me even more upset about this, is that the Broadway musical already updated the outfits amazingly, they had probably the most costume changes I've ever seen in a show, and things were a little exaggerated (it's Broadway) but honestly still looks great, and all the characters fit, but still feel unique.
I especially love janis, they go less goth, but it is very alternative, and they pull more on her artistic side, having a lot of it be painted on, and it's really cool, and fits the character, while adding something new.
the moment i saw regina in that baggy cargo pants i just knew they f'd up this remake
tbh i think if it's a modern iteration cargo pants look fine. idk how it is in usa, but around me it's always these priveleged girls in oversized baggy clothes including cargo pants or in lounge wear, trying to look as "chill" as possible. but yeah, shein is shein.
Nobody dressed like the original plastics in highschool either so....🤣🤣🤣💖💖
maybe but at least they look good
My problem with the musical movie vs the og is NO ONE is going to be recreating and analysing these outfits from the new movie. But they still do it from the 20 year old movie.
But to be honest I don’t think Regina had the worst outfits. For me it’s Gretchen. I think Regina was the most fashion forward decisive obvious it girl of the group back in the day but Gretchen was my favourite for her style but that’s because my taste skews preppy.
Omg I could've watched 15 minutes more of your analysis on this. So good!!
🥲 ty ily
love this video, and i can’t get behind most of the styling decisions in the movie, but i must say i LOVE regina’s angel costume for the halloween party. although it’s not the iconic bunny costume we see in the og, i still think regina looked gorgeous in the new one and reneé absolutely killed “somebody gets hurt”.
though it’s understandable why they changed the costume from the bunny to the new one, i felt really heartbroken when reneé said she felt really insecure with her body and developed ed when she played regina on broadway years ago :(
As a teenager, litterly everyone my age that I know says those outfits look horrid😭🙏
thank you for validating me 😭
The fashion in this movie feels very "How do you do fellow kids" I don't know anyone in the 2020s that dresses like this everyone is going for a clean high end or vintage look and are phasing out fast fashion and wanting better quality clothes
i agree w this
About the first piece of clothing you critiqued (Regina's pink flowered top): I like it! I would wear it!...But then again, I'm 60 years old.
Can I ask you why at your age you are still interested in the fashion trends of young people and in movies targeted for high schooler ?
@@FoundSheep-AN that's very rude of you. Fashion has no age limit. Neither does liking a movie... I'm 26. My mom likes it and she's 47. Don't be a weirdo
Thank you, user-di, for sticking up for an old bat like myself. I happened to think the first movie was cute; haven't seen the second one. FoundSheepAN, can I ask you why you are interested in the comments of us old fogies, and why you felt it was your business to post that comment? Thanks ever so much.
@@MomLAU
I also liked that pink top... until I saw it in another scene and realized it has really cheap faux corsetry boning on the bottom.... 🥲
Cult classic teenage girl movies all have iconic fashion in common. NOT what actual teens are wearing, but what teens would envision the over-the-top, exaggerated characters wearing. Think: Heathers, Clueless, Legally Blonde, and the OG Mean Girls. This movie… styling was such a bad idea.
re-shein-a george
To be fair, most of the outfits in the original were cheap juniors section clothes from that era. The new movie is doing the same with contemporary clothes, albeit even more heinous and cheap. Only with time will any of the looks become iconic
not really, in the original they had on prada, LV and burberry
Janis looks more fashionable than the plastics in this movie... how could that happen