#ST wardrobe

[thecelestialsyzygy]

Byler outfits I want for S5

I imagine the upper part of S5 Mikes outfit to look similar to this picture of Finns from his photoshoot with GQ

However, I imagine the leather jacket being black because the one we saw Mike with in the bts photo was black. I would keep the unzipped green hooded jacket (cuz duh blue + yellow = green) under it and put a blue and yellow striped t-shirt he probably pulled from the back of his closet under that (I'm wanting LAYERS ok). Throw him in some black jeans and add his iconic bedazzled belt from the desert scene

and of course combat boots. And by popular demand... GIVE MIKE LONG CURLY HAIR. Thank you stylists.

Now for S5 Will I imagine him to keep his grey undershirt from this outfit

Most of his belongings are in Lenora, so I imagine he will borrow one of Mikes striped button up shirts to throw on top of that. As for a jacket, he will either wear a letterman jacket like here (let’s say he borrowed it from Lucas)

or a shepherd denim jacket similar to Jonathan's from S2. I'm hoping for either cuffed khakis or light washed jeans with a matching belt (because Will loves to do that). When it comes to shoes and hair, I see Will in some white sneakers or converse. And by popular demand... GIVE WILL A LONGER/MESSIER BOWLCUT. Thank you stylists.

I think it would be cool to see articles of clothing that look similar to ones from the beginning seasons. Especially since they're going to try to capture that feeling again. It would also be cool for them to look like they borrowed clothes from each other (especially Will because his belongings are in Lenora) or took what they could find because as we know, it is an apocalypse and Hawkins is falling. Re-using pieces wardrobe is also a great way to add realism (despite this being a show about fighting monsters in the 80s). I would still like for the outfits to capture their own individual senses of style though. 

[kaiminluu]

s3 dump to get ready for SUMMAHHHH

[cottageivy]

ava, end of september, first semester of college

[cottoncandyangeltwink]

I see a lot of punk rock Adam, but what if glam rock Peter?

Just gonna build a whole wardrobe for him~

[icewindandboringhorror]

Obligatory fancier outfit that must be present anytime I post outfits 

[mangjeolie]

FILE: MANGJEOK SOOK. ACT: 004.

[jonathanbyersphd]

If wanting s5 to take place in the fall so Jonathan can be in sweaters is a crime then lock me up.

[raspberry-beret]

12 Days of Christmas - Meet Me in St Louis

[ladyfromaspookyforest]

Wheeler/Byers Wardrobe Analysis

Season 1 Part 3

Part 1 Part 2 Part 4 Part 5

EPISODE 5

First things first, this episode contains Will’s funeral and everyone wears black and I’m not going to talk about all their outfits because that’s a waste of time. But why are Mike and Dustin wearing these colored jackets?

Dustin’s in a very dark denim jacket with accents of primary-colored plaid popping out. Mike is in green with blue and green plaid accents. Lucas is wearing all black. At this point, Mike is totally 100% convinced Will is alive and stuck in the Upside Down. Dustin is on board. Lucas appears to be the least convinced of the three that Will is still out there, so him appropriately dressed for the funeral in all black makes sense. I know this post is about the Wheelers and Byers, but I'm going to talk about Dustin for a minute because of how this jacket reflects Will.

Dustin cracks a joke about telling Will Jennifer Hayes was crying at his funeral, like he has no doubt they’ll have this chance. It’s cute. It’s a little naïve but it’s heartwarming. But Dustin’s light attitude combined with this bright pop of color is really fitting. But what stands out to me the most about this jacket is how the plaid emulates the outfit Will disappeared in.

Sometimes I wonder about how Dustin feels, having been the last person to see Will before he disappeared. Dustin asked him to race, then got exhausted and quit. And Will was taken into the Upside Down. It would seem only natural for Dustin to experience guilt over this, but it’s not something we ever see explored. I’d really like to see them finally talk about this in season 5, but that's a whole tangent. Maybe I'm reading too much into guilt we never see, but it feels to me like Dustin HAS to maintain this lightness, this ability to joke at his friend's funeral. Whether it be to cope with the guilt or to cope with the possibility that they might not get him back, I don't know. Regardless, this similarity of the plaid on Dustin's jacket to Will's last outfit visually demonstrates that Dustin is focused on Will's DISAPPEARANCE and not his death, as an appropriate black jacket would.

Mike is convinced Will is alive, but he remains pretty somber through this scene. Much more so than Dustin, so the darker shade is fitting rather than the bright pop of color. But Mike has still covered his black clothes with green (blue + yellow?) as a way of showing that he isn’t really here to mourn. His mind is on Will, but he hasn’t lost him yet, though he doesn't have this capacity to joke like Dustin does.

After the funeral, El’s still wearing this nasty dress and you know what else she’s doing in this episode? LYING. This dress (Nancy's) shows us that she is not being herself and she deceives the party. Mike’s in his little Byers-y coat again as they hunt for the gate to find Will, and beneath it, he’s wearing blue, red, and yellow stripes on a grey shirt. Sensing a trend.

OKAY! So here’s where things start to get really interesting with Nancy’s color scheme. It’s the same. It’s still red and blue but rather than the extremely diluted soft pink and baby blue she’s been wearing, she’s now in brick red and a darker blue. It’s VASTLY different from the way she’s been dressing and yet they’re still in the same color family. There was only one other time we've seen Nancy in these darker shades: the day after she slept with Steve. She wore a light grey sweater with stripes in these colors: brick red and darker blue. That outfit was the first hint at this one. She was already starting to doubt her choices, starting to feel guilty. And here, the guilt has completely taken over. She feels wrecked about what happened to Barb and so, like her mother in the previous episode, she darkens her color palette in an attempt to react with appropriate gravity to the situation.

On the other side of things, Jonathan is wearing not one but two patterned articles of clothing. For the first time. He’s still wearing his own color palette, but he’s got a striped sweater and a checked flannel on. This feels like a small nod to Nancy while her shearling jacket is a bit of a nod to him. Their style is very minutely reaching towards one another.

Let’s talk about STEVE again. He’s come to apologize. He’s wearing green and navy, darker colors than he’s been wearing around Nancy lately. He's been wearing lighter shades of blue, matching her, but here he's in dark shades. In my last post, I talked about the visual of Nancy/Steve and El/Mike dressed in pastel pink/baby blue and how overly gendered and domestic it was. Here, Steve has dropped that. The last time he wore a darker blue was the day of the party when he wore a teal sweater. This scene above is potentially the most likable Steve has been so far this season. And I would argue that the party was another instance of Steve being likable. He feels genuine in both of these situations. He doesn’t feel like he’s being influenced by his shitty friends or worrying about his parents. And the colors of his outfits in these scenes are similar.

Apologies everyone. Trigger warning: L0nnie Byers. So this ding dong showed up at the end of the last episode and now he’s hangin’ out, trying to comfort Joyce. I’ve included a shot of the two of them from this episode and one of Lonnie from his first appearance in episode 2 as well, just so we can take a peek at what he usually wears. Button-downs at least partially undone over a white tank is the norm.

But then later after the funeral, he dresses like this. Lonnie-styled Wheeler colors.

I was actually kind of taken aback by this one, but it makes sense. Lonnie is fixing up the house, talking about how their family has been ruined. He’s calling Joyce “babe.” He’s putting on a complete show of being part of the family unit. He’s wearing his white button-down from the funeral in this scene, unbuttoned in Lonnie fashion, but the outfit prior to unbuttoning and rolling the sleeves resembles the sort of thing Ted Wheeler would be wearing at the dinner table. Bland office attire/bland funeral attire. Then he showers, comes back, and is in pastel stripes. Joyce confronts him about the money and they argue about how Lonnie just wants to use it for Jonathan to go to college. Lonnie is putting on this I Care About This Family front and it’s extremely telling that he does it in blue pastel stripes. This says that while he’s behaving like he’s a family man, he clearly isn’t, and the Wheelers, constantly behaving like the perfect family, are in fact not all that happy or put-together either.

Joyce is wearing this maroon turtleneck this episode. It’s darker than what we’ve seen her in and it’s also the first time she’s changed her clothes since the first episode (funeral getup earlier in the episode aside). She’s falling a little bit for Lonnie’s manipulation here as she just sort of needs someone to help her pick the pieces back up and he was quite literally just there. She lets him talk to her about how this could all be in her head and up until now, we’ve seen her shut down anyone who makes this kind of suggestion, but she also tells him not to take down the lights. She hasn’t given up. She doesn’t fully believe Will’s gone, but she’s conflicted and she’s starting to seem a bit hopeless. This dark top is a reflection of that, as well as the fact that it has a lot less character than what she usually wears.

Then she and Lonnie fight. He tells her she’s a shitty mom and she’s crazy and she yells at him and kicks him out. And in the next scene with Joyce, Hopper comes over and tells her she was right all along.

Here’s Hopper this episode. He’s totally unhinged. This is peak Unhinged Hopper for season 1. He breaks into the lab, beats people up, threatens them at gun point, answers his door with a gun looking paranoid as all Hell, rampages through his house looking for bugs, then shows up to the Byers residence to do the same. The sweaty undershirt is a fantastic way to show us just HOW unhinged he is.

The moment when Hopper showing up at the Byers house to unscrew every single one of Joyce’s Christmas lights is meeting her on her level. The little exchange between his officers after they come to see him is really indicative of this.

“Is he off his meds again?” “He’s been spending too much time with Joyce Byers.”

So I love this scene of him coming to Joyce in general because he’s the first person to tell her he believes her. This is huge. And having it take place right after Joyce kicked Lonnie out for saying she's off her rocker emphasizes the difference between the two. It shows us: this is what Joyce does NOT need followed by this is what Joyce DOES need. And the clothes are relevant because what Lonnie is wearing does not fit into Joyce and her family's lifestyle. What Hopper is wearing does.

As Hopper goes hunting for the truth like a maniac, he’s in civilian clothes for obvious reasons. He can’t roll up to a bar trying to trick the guy who found the body into giving him info in his uniform. But beyond practicality, I think putting Hopper in civilian clothes signals to us that this is no longer a job for him. He’s clearly not on real, legal police business anymore. He starts trespassing and getting violent and going so far as to cut open what is most likely a child's body just because there is a chance he can save Joyce's son. It's not police work anymore. As for the outfits themselves, this screams I Live in the Woods Alone. I don't have a whole lot to say about it, but I will be coming back to it to compare with other outfits Hopper wears later.

*cough* Anyway, I swear the next one will be shorter. It's because I went on Dustin and Hopper tangents. I got too invested in the Jopper moment.

[skirino]

@ SEI KIRINO en one hundred years.

[doriandrifting]

[ryansjane]

mark my words, off's role in the jungle will be his hottest one yet 😌

[cottoncandyangeltwink]

How about Saint Peter Pan?

I refused to leave out the ears so he had to get a nose too

I'm never sorry, don't bother

[shopcat]

maybe a weird question to ask esp since stranger things is a tv show with real live people playing fictional characters but do you imagine/think of the characters exactly the way the actors look like? like idk for me maybe it’s because of the way i enjoy fanart a lot but in my head eddie doesn’t really look all that much like jquinn. steve and robin look slightly different from jkeery and maya hawke. i do think it’s also because of how all these people play characters way younger than they are and look so it’s like. well in my head dustin and mike and the kids still look more like 2016 actors than 2023 actors because they’ve grown up more than the characters did. if that makes sense! anyways yeah i wanted to know what you thought i’m just curious cuz i haven’t rly asked anyone so idk if this is common at all.

ask is getting long so u dont have to read all this but yeah maybe it’s because i spend more time thinking about steve than i do like. hopper or whatever but when i say they look different i mean the features not just the age. like obviously they go hand in hand but like. yeah it’s like they share a canvas (joe keery) but its not the Same yk. and like. it’s not about making steve or the others more attractive to me personally bc despite steve being described/implied as attractive it’s just about how he looks like to Me. if that makes sense. umm yeah i don’t mean this to start like. discourse or whatever just a silly ask. also last time i sent an ask (steverobin drawing ideas) and u said i love you and it’s like we don’t know eo or talk or anything but i need to say i love you back bc i Do so true. anyways love you always enjoy reading your posts..! yeah

HM no yeah i get what u mean... i do not picture them very clearly in my mind either way but i do imagine them generally as the actors if only bc i have jkeery's face branded into my mind behind my eyelids eternally. if not maybe a bit younger which is potentially devastating... 24 year old joe keery playing 17 year old steve harrington looks like such a little guy to me but that is objectively more what he looks like throughout the events of the show it would be so tragic... i also have a problem w my art where sometimes i will do a direct study of jkeery but he won't be beautiful enough he'll look too much like jkeery. which is funny.

[thosekillerheels]

Tnx Lisa and Phyllis

[pilots-and-protons]

Cannot stress enough how disappointed I am that Tom Paris didn’t get to wear a science/medical uniform whenever he was on shifts in Sickbay.