To present the primary trio a definite and cohesive look, Stein and Barrett landed on colourful items with retro silhouettes. “We have been instantly on the identical web page,” says Barrett of the duo’s preliminary conversations. “We wished it to be timeless, with a bit of little bit of fifties and sixties combined in.” They nodded to the period’s pencil skirts and fitted clothes, for one, however integrated a cheery shade palette impressed by—what else?—jawbreakers. “We let the colours of the jawbreaker inform all the women’s colours,” says Stein. “You had plenty of roses, vivid reds, and purples.” This elevated method to highschool outfits was additionally utilized to the casts’ equipment of sky-high heels and cutesy luggage. “We did not need this to really feel like another faculty, so no person was carrying backpacks,” says Stein. “We determined they might all carry classic purses.”

Nonetheless, every of the three characters had their very own trend taste happening. For Courtney, probably the most evil of the trio, the designers went for a glance that was sturdy and extreme. “She was the chief—she wished to be seen, and to intimidate,” says Stein. “Courtney is not only a typical imply woman; she’s pure evil within the physique of a highschool woman. So we thought it might be pure if she was dressed like a femme fatale.” They styled her in corsets and the aforementioned retro pencil skirts, however did them in fashionable materials like rubber, and added tights that have been dyed to match them. McGowan says she seems again on the character fondly—particularly the garments. “I stay endlessly happy with costumer Vikki and Darren’s good collaboration,” she says. “Each element within the movie’s costuming was thought-about. What I like about Jawbreaker is that everybody got here to win—and we did.”

Then there have been the minions, in fact. “Marcie’s character was a tamer model of Courtney—a bit of little bit of a wannabe,” says Barrett. “Her silhouettes have been much like Courtney’s.” Julie, in the meantime, was the sweetest of the trio, and the duo performed that up together with her type. “She transitions into extra light colours and denim [throughout the movie],” says Barrett. “It bought extra sensible—not as wild as she began out.” Fern—who transforms into Vylette, because of a film makeover from the clique—additionally asserts her newfound confidence via her wardrobe. “As Vylette turns into increasingly more highly effective, the pink will get extra vivid and obvious,” says Stein.