Techniques: Wardrobe

Pepa
1. Changes Often
  1. Reflecting her emotional journey
  2. Through any event/disaster
2. Wears RED frequently
  1. During times of control/significant power
  2. Represents passion & anger
3. Wears BLUE in the lawyer scene
  1. Lack/loss of control
    1. Candela: "Why are you so dressed up?"
4. Wears PINK at the beginning
  1. Vulnerability
Paulina Morales
1. Wears clothes that reflect the power she wants to have
  1. Shoulder pads: considered masculine
  2. "Feminist lawyer" - wants dominance
2. Wears RED in the scene with Pepa: shows control
Candela
1. Beginning: wears BLUE & white
  1. Shows her carefree, naïve nature/attitude towards men & sex
    1. Submissive nature
  2. After suicide attempt: Pepa "hay que sufrir y mucho"
    1. Pepa saved her from her insanity (links with the Title)
    2. Doesn't change internally but her appearance does
      1. End: Better dressed to deal with events regarding the terrorists
      2. Wears BLACK, no jewellery & slicks back hair
2. Most incapable character yet most scantily dressed
  1. Notably most sexually available
  2. Coffee earrings
Lucía
1. Trapped in the past
  1. Emotionally
  2. Mentally
  3. Reflected through her clothes
    1. 60's clothing: effective symbol of her insanity
    2. Out-dated wigs, make-up (eyeliner) etc.
    3. Outlandish by the end
    4. Beyond the border of a nervous breakdown
  4. Anchored in a time before Iván's disloyal behaviour
El Mambo Taxista
1. Most eccentrically dressed
  1. Printed & colourful clothes
2. Representation of post-franco men & therefore the ideal man
  1. Showing Almodóvar isn't a 'feminist'
    1. Men in a positive light
    2. Revolutionary in his ideas/approach towards women
  2. La Movida
Carlos
1. Like father, wears suits
  1. Suits dont' fit: hasn't fully become the womaniser that his father is
2. Bland colours

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