The costumes in the historical context were carefully designed to reflect the personalities of the main characters. Miss Brill wears a faded purple gown and shabby fur, representing her illusions about herself and how she tries to emulate Fantasy. Fantasy wears a bright, elaborate gown contrasting with Miss Brill to show how Miss Brill sees herself. Reality wears dark, serious clothes to represent his pragmatic nature, with spectacles symbolizing logic and a cane showing the power of reality over fantasy. The costumes thus contrast the characters of reality, fantasy, and Miss Brill's detachment from reality through her fading costume.
The costumes in the historical context were carefully designed to reflect the personalities of the main characters. Miss Brill wears a faded purple gown and shabby fur, representing her illusions about herself and how she tries to emulate Fantasy. Fantasy wears a bright, elaborate gown contrasting with Miss Brill to show how Miss Brill sees herself. Reality wears dark, serious clothes to represent his pragmatic nature, with spectacles symbolizing logic and a cane showing the power of reality over fantasy. The costumes thus contrast the characters of reality, fantasy, and Miss Brill's detachment from reality through her fading costume.
The costumes in the historical context were carefully designed to reflect the personalities of the main characters. Miss Brill wears a faded purple gown and shabby fur, representing her illusions about herself and how she tries to emulate Fantasy. Fantasy wears a bright, elaborate gown contrasting with Miss Brill to show how Miss Brill sees herself. Reality wears dark, serious clothes to represent his pragmatic nature, with spectacles symbolizing logic and a cane showing the power of reality over fantasy. The costumes thus contrast the characters of reality, fantasy, and Miss Brill's detachment from reality through her fading costume.
The costumes in the historical context were carefully designed to reflect the personalities of the main characters. Miss Brill wears a faded purple gown and shabby fur, representing her illusions about herself and how she tries to emulate Fantasy. Fantasy wears a bright, elaborate gown contrasting with Miss Brill to show how Miss Brill sees herself. Reality wears dark, serious clothes to represent his pragmatic nature, with spectacles symbolizing logic and a cane showing the power of reality over fantasy. The costumes thus contrast the characters of reality, fantasy, and Miss Brill's detachment from reality through her fading costume.
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Reflection Costume Design
Costumes were carefully decided to reflect the main characters
personality in the historical context. Miss Brill dons a faded purple tea gown and a shabby piece of fur. Though grimy and shabby, this fur symbolises Miss Brills illusions about herself whenever she wears it, she believes that she is an actress, putting on a show for everyone. However, the audience can see the disparity in her actions since the faded purple colour of her costume reminds us of musk, dust and decay and lacks the colour and style of a young womans dressing. Her faded purple gown is juxtaposed against Fantasys elaborate and flamboyant tea gown, which is bright purple and pink. The numerous layers of frills and her elaborate fan reflect Fantasys dramatic, frivolous personality. This stark contrast between Miss Brill and Fantasy allows the audience to see the jarring difference between how Miss Brill perceives herself to look and her actual appearance. Fantasy is who Miss Brill hopes to be and who she tries to emulate in her delusions that she is young. The audience has a sense of foreboding Miss Brill is shunning reality and nothing good will come out of it. Furthermore, Reality wears a top hat, spectacles, trousers and a cravat. The dark tone of his costume reflects his serious, pragmatic attitude. His spectacles represent logic and rationality. His dark and serious costume is juxtaposed against Fantasys to allow the audience to visualise the separate nature of reality and fantasy. One cannot be embedded in fantasy while grounded in reality at the same time. Reality also wields a cane, which symbolises the power and superiority of logic and rationality against the flimsy nature of fantasy. However, his grim clothing can also be seen as sinister, reflecting the blunt, harsh nature of the truth.
