I thought the witch's dresses towards the beginning looked very odd
(especially the weird sticking-out-six-inches-at-the-back thing) but I think
the material it was made of was pretty well chosen; it looked more like it
was sort of magically grown than made, which strikes me as right.
I did like her last two dresses, though--the strapless dark brown one, and
the maned chain mail battle outfit. Wonder how much that one weighed; to me
it actually looked like chain mail rather than that fake metallic knit stuff
that some movies use to impersonate chain mail. The mane was a nice touch.
It seemed like something Jadis would do.
I like both Susan and Lucy's Narnian dresses. Their coronation gowns... I
didn't hate them, but I was hoping for something a bit more spectacular.
From a standpoint of what was right for the movie, they sort of make sense
to me; this is supposed to be a country without humans, so they probably
didn't exactly have a lot of human coronation gowns laying around, nor
garment-makers with tons of experience at making human clothing. Where on
earth were they supposed to have gotten those earlier Narnia dresses,
anyway? The adult Susan and Lucy dresses disappointed me a bit, though I
liked the purple/plum one. (I couldn't quite tell which one was Su and
which was Lu there.)
-E House
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