WandaVision: sitcom fashion throughout the decades
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A 1950s Housewife: Marriage and Homemaking in the 1950s by Sheila Hardy
Remembering Grant Tinker, 'Mary Tyler Moore' Producer And NBC Chair: www.npr.org/2016/12/09/504960...
Designing for Black-and-White: Edith Head and the Craft of the Costume Designer: www.screeningthepast.com/issue...
Barbara Billingsley on "June Cleaver's" wardrobe and pearls: • Barbara Billingsley on...
All the Secrets Behind WandaVision’s Hair and Makeup Looks: www.glamour.com/story/wandavi...
How WandaVision Travels The Decades Through Hair And Makeup: www.elle.com/culture/movies-t...
A History Of Straightening Afro Textured Hair: www.bustle.com/articles/18904...
The Unsung Challenges of Contemporary Costume Design: fashionista.com/2018/07/conte...
Barbara Eden to Talk "Jeannie" by Kathy Cichon for the Chicago Tribune (2015)
Be More Like a Man? by Nina Hyde for The Washington Post (1984)
SPRINGING AHEAD: Best Looks to Look For from Harper's Bazaar (1989)
I Dream of Jeannie by Kimberly Speight for The Hollywood Reporter (2004)
mina: talks about wanda wearing bright blue eyeshadow and red lipstick me: notices that mina is wearing the exact same look now THATS dedication!!
i’m replying bc no else is
How did I not notice!
She is so dedicated to her videos, we don’t deserve her amazingness 💖
true but she wore them in other videos too
i guess I am pretty off topic but does anyone know of a good website to watch new movies online ?
as a marvel fan, I think this show is one of the best things that marvel has done in a while and the outfits are so good
I like every single one of the outfits
Im not a marvel fan and have only watched like 3 marvel movies but I still really enjoyed WandaVision.
yeah I know wandavision's my favorite thing they've done so far
I was watching it with my parents and they were cracking up over the outfits and sets. They were born in the mid-fifties and have watched many of the sitcoms the episodes were based on.
@@Mothman_In_a_T-Pose that sounds really cool, it must have brought back many memories for them.
"the real world" Mina: 😰🤢🤮🤬🤢🤮🙅♀️😫😤🤮🤮🤮
Honestly same
I was not expecting that Bratz clip 🤣
Yep, we ALL have that same reaction towards the real world, it's hard to really blame Mina! 🤣
@@trinaq I didn't
I have a good fashion sense, and I hate it when people look like an alien dressed them. I have no respect for such fools. All they do is bring disgust.
Elisabeth Olsen is actually wearing one of those pointy bras in the 50s episode, isn’t she? That’s a really nice detail faithful to the period, especially because it is so often left out of movies taking place in the 50s.
I think you’re right! Really shows how much care was put into this
@@lania0637 I haven’t actually watched the show yet, but I’ll take your word for it:)
Yeah, I watched and audibly went "is that a bullet bra?" My dad and my sister looked at me weird.
@@just-trying-my-best-everyday if not a bullet bra, maybe a cross your heart style- they were also pretty popular. And they’re super comfy! By far the most supportive bra I’ve ever owned (which matters when you’re a G cup), yet there’s no underwire at all. Amazing!
@@katherinemorelle7115 I can see that, the silhouette certainly looks a little softer than what a bullet bra might achieve.
The fact that you couldn't even use the word pregnant (a medical term) is INSANE. Censorship back then was so so misogynistic. The natural curve of a woman's butt is somehow shameful and the same bellybutton she shares with men is unacceptable but only on her, how sad is that.
and to this day u can still get sent home from school for wearing a shirt that shows ur shoulders :(
@@Sydney-Casket-Base “because it will distract the boys” like what, it won’t distract anyone except seemingly teachers!
@Kasen Palmer Apparently it's too hard to teach boys not to objectify women.
@@Sydney-Casket-Base what? Where are you living?
@@jnnakle101 united states, my dude
Censorship rules didn't allow Lucille Ball to say she's pregnant? That's fucked up
I mean, it was also the era when women were expected to stop working when they got pregnant and to just become stay at home wives if they could afford it 🤷🏿♀️
That's how the famous "we're 'spectin" (expecting) came to be
Lucille also owned her own studio, so she had a lot of influence between her and her husband
I don't think it's fair to judge a different time with our 21st century standards. Not saying I agree with it, but you have to know the context of the time.
@@ryancook3324 very true
i was lowkey sad when the show switched back to being modern day
Me toooooooo
It was so sad because they didn’t even give her good outfits. She was in like pajamas essentially. Like there is good fashion that’s around right now, so WHY is she in swears essentially
@@tessiegesch8677 bc shes upset, and in a seemingly depressive episode. shes not gonna be in a full beat lmfao
@@tessiegesch8677 she’s depressed so of course she’s gonna be in pjs
@@waifau9093 I actually haven’t gotten to that part of the show yet, but o saw her outfits online. I didn’t know the reasoning for it, but I do wish they would’ve had at least one put together outfit
“W**dy All*n will not be getting screen time on this channel” Honestly, you’re a queen. We have no choice but to stan.
What happened with woody Allen?
@@harshdeep8835 Not to mention married his partner's (Mia Farrow) oldest daughter after starting a relationship with her while she was a teenager. Just Yuck, no, no.
@@lissethbarrantes9016 there was a recent docuseries covering his sexual abuse of his adopted daughter, mental abuse of his romantic partner (Mia Farrow), and grooming of her teenage daughter who he began a sexual relationship with while she was still a minor. Despite all this happening in the 90’s Hollywood allowed him to continue being an icon in the film industry, and he has only recently due to the #metoo movement begun to face some backlash.
who did he play in wandavision?
I was like "who tf is wendy ellen?"
Waitttttt, no one clocked the comparison with 80s sitcom Full House? AKA the start of the acting careers of the iconic Olsen twins, the sisters of Elizabeth Olsen?
omg i knoww i was waiting for her to mention that the whole time but i figured it would at least come up in the comments!
It wasn’t Full House. It mostly played off of Family Ties. Honestly it shoulda been a Small Wonder parody cause, y’a know, robot.
@@Catsby83 but the full house reference is obvious too, the scene where they are running with the boys and having a picnic for example
@@maluvs_ And the house interior was very much modeled after the Full House house
@@lolkayleen2757 also Growing Pains with the postcards
The crossover we never knew we needed
Seconded, Mina + WandaVision = A Match made in Heaven! 😇
"the real world, ewwwww" truer words have never been spoken
Yes so true 🤣🤣
agatha's character in the show is based off of this old witchy character in the comics, which is why the colors and patterns she wears are usually dark (with blacks and purples) and why her silhouettes can at times be a bit dated
TBH the original comic book Earth-616 Agatha Harkness was seriously a rip off of the OG Disney Cinderella villain, Lady Tremaine. The bouffant graying hairstyle, the perpetual scowl, the purple leg-o-mutton dress, the cat named Scratch (a nickname for the devil)--all of this is a blatant ripoff of Lady Tremaine (whose cat was named Lucifer). Which is still simultaneously super duper classic, even if it's a ripoff. Plus, Disney owns both, soooo
So basically WandaVision followed fashion trends from the 50’s all the way up to the 80’s better than most shows and movies you’ve rated? I actually didn’t hear u complain about the fashion being to modern one time. Think WandaVision deserves a round of a plaus for that 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
AGREED
i love the shade "oh i love oprah winfrey but she couldnt ask a different question than about pearls and high heels?"
although I completely understand why you left the Halloween episode out, I'd like to point out that their costumes in that episode are Halloween costume versions of their respective 90s marvel comic superhero designs, which i think is a nice touch, much appreciated by marvel fans.
Mayes C Rubeo, the costume designer, deserves ALL of the pay raises, accolades and awards for successfully replicating the style of each classic sitcom era! 👏🏾🎊🏆
this is like a very obvious thing (because red is wanda's colour, her magic/costume is red, she's scarlet witch...etc) but I loved all the red incorporated into her wardrobe! and the green/yellow in vision's clothes. i thought it was really well incorporated without being too comic book-y with the one assigned colour and costume (obvs not counting Halloween costume, which was super cute).
oh, i didn't notice that!! the one about vis' green & yellow, so that's why that's the color scheme for his sweater once they transitioned to color... ohhh.. awesome spot!! i appreciate ya sharin it! i'll now pay closer attention to vis' clothing once i finally rewatch wv again hahah thanks!!
It is a crime that we seem to have no trace of an image of blue Vision from those black and white episodes #ReleaseTheBlueVisionCut
If you have Disney+ (which I assume as you wouldn’t be able to watch Wandavision otherwise) you can watch Marvel Assembled where they show behind the scenes
This is SO fascinating. The note at the beginning about using accessories and textures and such to help differentiate characters in black and white sitcoms really makes so much sense. During the pandemic, I've been watching a lot of old black and white films and have quickly realized how much I usually depend on costume and hair colors to differentiate characters. It can be really hard to figure out who is who sometimes when you don't have any color to help you out!
its so fansinacting!! i wish more stuff was shot in B&W nowadays lol
The Halloween episode, which is actually set in the 2000s, has Agnes wearing a Juicy Couture tracksuit in the intro. Iconic.
Yesss, I was hoping you'd cover wandaVision's fashion!
me too!
Likewise, and we were not disappointed! 😁❤️
me toooo
I was watching Wandavision last night and just thinking someone (mina or modernz girlz) would cover the outfits
Me too! ^-^ (Also 1,000th like)
also i think wandas outfits were good from a plot and narrative perspective as well because she always wanted to be in just an ordinary happy idealised life with vision, just like a sitcom. it perpetuates the idealised housewife of the 50s to the moms of the 80s in a completely typical way, which is how she always wanted to be seen
I love sitcoms, marvel and fashion so it's a win win situation for me
wandavision nailed the aesthetics and feel of each decade. the dialogue and sfx were on point o what would look like in each time and it was so cool to watch. love your videos!!
WE👏🏼 NEED👏🏼 MORE👏🏼 1950’S👏🏼 STYLE👏🏼 SITCOMS👏🏼. PERIOD. 😤
Honestly the hat is just perfection I don’t know of anyone else who pulls it off like you do
yes!!!!!
I usually hate the 80's fashion but the show did it so aesthetic pleasing, btw mom's jeans seems so comfortable far better than low waisted jeans.
Omgg no the 80s outfits where the best😭😭
It looks like they're wearing bullet bras in the 1950's episodes. They could have easily overlooked that, but getting that pointy silhouette made the costuming seem more authentic to me.
There's also the non-sitcom part in Salem in 1693 and that outfit Agatha has for that part is spot on.
Ikr she really pulls that look off
I had no idea the costumes were so thoughtful in this series. They seem so natural to the era they portray. Love this!!!
I have a hunch (maybe more wishful thinking honestly) that Wanda's "pregnant dress" in the seventies episode is a reference to Barbra Streisand's dark red, long-sleeved, and empire waist dress from Up the Sandbox (it's actually what she wears on the poster!). They even have the same neckline and a similar hairstyle! There's a scene in the movie where she wears that dress and has a dream about suddenly becoming pregnant; it plays a lot like that episode of Wandavision. It's a long shot because only about three people have seen that movie, but there are so many similarities that I can't help but wonder!
Barbara Billingsley wearing high heels to be taller than the kids is the funniest thing ever.
This is probably fully intentional, but I noticed that the description of Wanda's makeup at 3:15 is exactly what you're wearing on your own face. It's a nice detail!
I am a minimalist and owns very little clothes, yet it feels so fun learning about fashion from you!
Same
my great aunt was mary tyler moore’s wardrobe stylist for most of her TV career! I love seeing her work pop up around the internet :)
I laughed so hard when the real world being disgusting clip came up
The costume designer did such a brilliant job and I love the homages to all the classic sitcoms at the time
my two favorite things right now: fashion analysis and wandavision
5:45 Commenting again for the interaction. I'm an in home geriatric nurse so my patients are exclusively people who were alive and usually married by the 1950s. Many of my patients were housewives in the 1950s and yes they did dress nicely and did wear makeup daily. They wouldn't leave the house to go grocery shopping without having hair and makeup done. Hair was especially easy since they went to the salon once a week or so to get it styled. They had house dresses that they wore to clean in and they always made sure to be put together by the time their husbands got home. of course they weren't vacuuming the house wearing high heels but that doesn't mean they weren't put together so if a neighbor stop by, like people often did without notice, they would still look nice and presentable you don't have to be wearing high heels and pearls to look nice and presentable. It was just expected. Sure there were some who didn't but that's in the minority from what I've seen. They had a routine. For example floors on Monday laundry Tuesday dusting Wednesday meal planning meal prep and grocery shopping Thursday ect. I advise everyone to talk to their elderly relatives and ask them about their life and what it was like living in the 1950s.
Well, I am Russian and all my relatives who lived in 1950s were trying not to die from starvation or get in the concentration camp after WWII... My grandgrandmother was kicked out of her house with two children after her husband died, so she built the dogout with her bare hands and they lived there for two years! In Siberia! No shade, I am really happy that this horror ended and that there were people who lived a happy and wealthy life in those times.
@@mantolinez wow that's so interesting but also very sad! What a strong woman your grandmother was! Have you considered writing their history down so others can read and learn from it? I would love to hear more about what life was like for them! The true inner strength they must have had to survive is mind blowing. They had spines of steel back then
"i'm not a huge marvel person" but you are a huge MODEL person CONGRATS ON GETTING SIGNED TO IMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
This makes me so happy to know that the whole show’s outfits are historically accurate
Props to the costume department on WandaVision; they clearly did their research on era-appropriate sitcom fashion. This show must have been so much fun to work on as a costume designer to get to play around with so many different fashion periods.
Why do you look like Disney’s Snow White? So cute.
That fact about how a lot of older TV shows never had a costume designer was really interesting to me! I wonder if shows with a really obvious aesthetic (i.e. Designing Women, Blossom) were made with the actors' clothing?
A lot of these sitcoms wouldn’t have a costume designer but they would have a wardrobe stylist who would put outfits together based on who the character is. Prime time soaps like Dynasty had a costumer designer, Nolan Miller, who created these opulent extravagant gowns and dresses for the show that they became as much a character as the actors themselves. One show I know that didn’t have a designer was the original Degrassi because the characters would wear their own clothes to make it seem more realistic to an actual junior high/high school.
"W**dy *ll*n will not be getting screentime on this channel" I SNORTED SO HARD ASDFGHJKL YES QUEEN
I haven’t been this early since Pietro was still alive
The 70s looks for Wanda and Monica were incredible, and by far my favorites of the series.
oh. i never really thought about the ideal 1950's housewife vs what actually probably existed, ie the comment about them barely having time to run a comb thru their hair during the day. i'm a kind of femme presenting enby who works part-time & has a step kid & i dunno why i thought that we were so different in that aspect. my partner & i share house work and payments and i barely feel like i have time to put time into my looks & this made me feel better? gosh, sorry for the rant but i figured it was good for engagement.
no I get this! that aesthetic is in a way still kind of sought after today and it’s nice to know it only minimally existed in the first place considering how unattainable it is
I mean we have time for that even though we work. Maybe we don’t always bother and some never (and certainly during Covid) but it can be done just fine with routine. And housewifes didn’t just stay inside the whole day either.
My favourite outfit is the red tights 70s look that’s only in the intro but that’s just because I have a particular reverence for 70s style. But as a guy I would wear literally everything Vision has in this show
That part about how tv execs from the 70's would buy rather than make the clothing for the shows is interesting. I wonder if that's why in the credits for shows in this era you often see wardrobe by rather than costumes by.
I absolutely LOVED this show! The attention to detail, changing the entire film style depending on the time, it's gotta be one of my new favorite shows, if not my favorite in general. As a film student, I appreciate their dedication so much. Thank you for covering this show! I almost started tearing up lol. I adore you!!
VIDEO A DAY BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY ABOUT ONE OF MY NEW FAVOURITE SHOWS WAAAH!!!!!
Happy early birthday
happy early birthday ! ^^
happy birthday ♡
The details (especially in the 50s episode) were so absolutely gorgeous, right down to the bullet bra and girdle! I just wish they’d done her hair a /little/ bit neater, it didn’t seem to be fully brushed out and was a bit too stiffly curled. I think it should have been smoothed out more, or even if they’d gone balls-to-the-wall and given her the Lucille Ball poodle updo!
Living for the fact that you went “we have to mention the men’s wear inspiration Annie Hall produced, but we will be censoring that man”
I loved the series for it's exploration of grief through the optic of a nearly omnipotent while also very human character. The fact that they also did it while paying homage to sitcoms through the decades and being quite accurate was great. I was waiting for the video since I found your channel 😅. Opinions on her superhero costume from the finale ?
i read an article theorizing that the material on her top seemed to be very similar to vis' costume, as well as the color of it as well (closer to vis' skin than the shade of wanda's prev costume) and that wanda made it so, so that in a way, vis would be with her always... also, fun fact: lizzie actually contributed feedback on the design of it so that it'd be functional, so it was designed so that she could move all the ways she needed to move... (and also, she finally got her wish of not showing that much cleavage heheh huzzah!! hahah
@@verbimu yes !!! I picked up the similarities between the materials from the posters ! (Also, the mind stone shaped cut out in her neck line). Also love how Elizabeth actually tried to do her movements with the costume and they had to redesign parts of it in order for her movement to work, it shows she cares for the character.
@@lucasiglesias1894 yessss the Mind Stone shaped cutout right near her heart T________T
it would be fun a video giving some insight of period costuming in film throughout the years!!
I am HYPNOTIZED by your hat! It's exquisite!
You like vintage everything...? Tht reminds me of 2007 Nancy Drew when she's like "I like old fashioned things."
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the bullet bra! I mean... look at her silhouette!
I loved that the outfits from each episode seemed very authentic and not over the top! They were so perfect! My favorite episode was the 70s ep! The outfits were so amazing and Elizabeth Olsen looked so gorgeous in every outfit they put her in 🥰
I thought it was interesting how they used the spitting image of the Dick Van Dyke Show home (60s) for the first episode (50's). Maybe Wanda got them a bit confused in here memories?
The background and mina: ☎️💐🌼🛋️🪔💡🥕🥫♟️🎨🖼️🎬🎞️📽️🕹️ The foreground (aka the real world): 🦾🗄️🖋️🛠️⚙️⛓️🔭🦯🔬🚦🧭⚓
I'm confused as to why there was a picture of leo Dicaprio in the pregnancy in television portion of the video...😂
it’s meant to be as if someone is pointing out the baby bump xD took me a minute to get it!
It's a Meme lol
@@g___arden Yeah, same it took me a minute😂
I loved this show, i can't believe it was Marvel who did this and the movies from the mcu. Elizabeth Olsen did a stunning job with her acting changing with the decades while preserving the essence of the character. The costume department deserves all the awards
I'm not a huge fan of Marvel but out of the few films I've watched Wanda is one of the characters that I got invested with the most. I have Disney + now so I think I should watch it also because of the amazing outfits 😊
Aw, fun video but I'm kinda bummed out you didn't talk about Vision's outfits at all! I know feminine fashion is generally more fun to talk about, but I really got a kick at some of Vision's outfits (altho I'm a guy so...lol). My favorites included the atomic-themed office getup and...uuuh everything about his 70s aesthetic. That actor pulls off 70s hair very well. I did appreciate the nod to Monica's fashion though, shame KZhead copyrighted you there. :D
I adored WandaVision and all of Wanda’s outfits! It’s my goal to get enough people to dress up as every era of WandaVision at the same time with me
Who allowed you to look this good? 😭 Always serving a look in accordance to your theme! Much love always! 💕
What I got from this is that belly buttons were the shoulders of the 60s
yep!!
Marilyn Monroe had the same problem with her belly button being on show in ‘there’s no business like show business’ (1954) & they literally just added such a tiny obvious piece to cover it!
Mina: "We humans see certain colors, like the color green, as lighter than other colors, like the color blue." Me, who is monochromatic colorblind: wut
Episodes 1,2,3,5 were one of the best aesthetic wise
14:56 enceinte does not just imply pregnancy, it’s the direct translation of pregnant in french 😇
I think we can all agree that we really needed this
You will also like agent carter on disney+ 🥰
I love how they tried to make it as authentic and accurate as possible! I didn't they had a live audience for the 1st episode.
anyone else notice that the costume designer said that wandas makeup was basically blue eyeshadow and a red lip and that’s exactly what mina was wearing?🤔
oop i meant makeup artist* sorry
Yes!! I’m really into this show lately. Also, I’m wondering, can you cover the fashion in the Assassin’s Creed series next? I’m actually curious if the costumes in the games are historically accurate or not. 🤔🤔
overly sarcastic productions talks about the architectural/cultural accuracy but not the costumes,, still v interesting tho!!
Yes please, thank you for breaking down these iconic styles!! It really helped me get more engrossed on the show itself.
I hope one day you get to do Schitts Creek!
Oh my goodness! YES! I second this!
I was never into low rise jeans either. They never fit me comfortably. 🍑
Yup they could never contain my booty
they were the bane of my existence.
I'm the opposite, low rise jeans were more comfortable for me.
@@annelooney1090 samee
@@nalediserunye4073 zz
i appreciate all the research you did, chef kiss !
I'm impressed with your content. The direct quotes from the actors you're referencing, in particular, is great
yay I loved this!!! I'm so glad you did a video on it! I loved the details in the show but hearing you explain the history behind them makes all of that attention to detail all the more impressive!
oh my god your research in this was so thorough and interesting, thank you for this!!
This is great! I learned so much. Not just about costumes & the costuming process, but the historical implications and TV production.
I love your fashion era breakdowns and how you included the historical influences 🥺✨
I love this video! I loved the show's styling and I'm glad you're coverning it
ugh i loved the lil intro 📺
i love the way you talk and your hand gestures,, idk something about your videos are so calming
I love this!! This is honestly so educational and I love your incorporation of so many sitcoms and actresses interviews, I think this works so well!
I love this show and I really appreciate all the work that went into this video!!!
I can’t gush about this show enough! And therefore I was EXTREMELY excited when you posted this!! Thanks for doing it!! I love your reviews and commentary SO much and I love this show SO much so this video just made my whole day.
This was so fun to watch! ❤ Your enthusiasm for fashion always makes me so happy!
I love that you not only talked about the show(s), but the strides that were taken by so many of the actresses at the time.
I knew you would do a video on WandaVision fashion, and I could not love it more 🥰💖
ughhh i am so happy you made this I LOVE wandavision, especially the 70s episode because 70s fashion is my favorite! monica's 70s outfit was bomb *would wear*
Here before ModernGurlz that's EARLY early. No hate though I love both channels 💗
I've never seen this show, but you are so amazing at explaining the history/content I didn't even notice! I love your channel!
Ohhhh I was hoping someone would do a video essay of the fashion in Wandavision! Thank you so much!