There's a reason costume designers are hired for films and television shows. There's a certain way that a character needs to dress to fully become 'that' character. It assists to personify and resonate the character to the audience, and a personality is enhanced by the actors ability to bring their character to life.
Who editor, Nicky Briger, has written in this month's 15th anniversary issue of marie claire about her time working with the magazine's editor, Jackie Frank. Briger writes about how she had expectations of what her editor to be was going to be wearing before she'd even met her, thinking of frighteningly sharp suits and stiletto's, to amusingly find her 'homeless' attire more approachable. Her time as sub-editor then deputy-editor next to Frank is expressed colourfully and paints a picture of the image that Jackie Frank creates every day when she dresses in the morning. When Briger says that Frank sometimes sits on the floor with her skirt hitched almost inappropriately high, there's an immediate visual to associate this person at the top as someone who's not afraid to get in with the rest of her staff and work hard. In a simple manner of speaking, Briger was expecting one 'uniform' and got to know a completely unexpected other form of 'uniform'.
Garance Dore also writes about finding someone who has faith in her ability to work from a young age when she started her first job. It all came down to the boots she was wearing, and it's amazing to read her story and think that someone believed in her enough to hire her, simply due to what she was wearing.
There's a way in which we wish to be perceived, and hopefully it takes us to where we want to be.
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