Cynthia Virtue wrote:
Somebody was making gowns for the Queen, plus dwarves and giants wear
clothes, so even if they didn't have specific clothing, there would have
been supplies and skill of some level.
I found it odd that the children were able to change clothes in the
camp also. I mean, for the coronation sure! but how on earth did they
get clothes that fit that soon. I mean, mostly it was talking beasts,
merfolk, naiads and dryads - none of which wear human style clothing.
Sure, there were dwarfs - but they weren't dressed in dwarfish styles!
Problem with pointing out that all the outlying areas were human is
that we only know about those in later books, after Lewis has explored
them and decided to make them as people. None of them were in Narnia
proper, or the prophecy could have been fulfilled long before.
True, there were giants, but somehow they got short-shifted a lot.
Rumblebuffin was credited but cut out.
The queen, as was just pointed out, wasn't human - and was an adult.
Actually, the problem with the queen's costume is that it was a concept
costume. Apparently the concept didn't come through very well. Her gowns
were so much made for her (regarding skill level) as they were formed of
her own winter. Imagine glaciers and ice 'clothing' a being who rose out
of it like a pillar of marble. I think that was what they were going for
in that first outfit with the really odd neckline. Then as her power
waned, the icicles that weren't so much a crown as actually growing from
her head began to melt, and her whole gown changed - thinned and
darkened as her magic changed. I think it was an interesting idea, but
from the number of posts on different lists that I've read - it didn't
seem to come across. I thought her battle outfit with her hair and that
'vest' looking like a lion mane was an interesting touch to the true
supremacy of Narnia!
-Judy Mitchell
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