Happy Costume

In Taylor Swifts music video for 'Mine' she uses a simple white dress to symbolise her happiness and purity when in the woods.

We wanted to do this ourselves, but we could not find a suitable white dress, that we either had or could buy, so we asked our friend Rachel who is studying Textiles, and she is making a dress for us.

This way we can choose our material and what we want the dress to look like.

Left Rachel has started to cut up the pieces of material to make the 'floaty' dress. These pieces are to make the bp0dice part of the dress, it will be mainly white with the floral material rouched in the middle.

Below to the right is the floral material used to make the rest of the dress. We feel that by using this light coloured floral material we are not conforming to then usual ideas about purity and happiness, but also bringing in a more contemporary and stylish look to the costume, as well as bringing in the more natural elements of the fields and woods where we will be filming her in the woods.

Material

Costumes

In our video the main character (Elle) will be in two different outfits. In one 'section' of the video.. ther badder times, when she is with her boyfriend we want her in simple black leggins and a top with boots, we would like the make up to be very heavily black, so that we could possibly get a shot of a black tear and make up coming down her face, this will represent how messed up the relationship has made her etc. We would also like her to have a black leather jacket that is open for when she runs to create movement, and just generally make the shot look better.

Below is an on set shot of Eleanor running where she will be in the video. She is wearing what I have spoken about above, we feel it is an effective costume.