what’s your dream outfit from a movie or tv show?

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Lulu Lefferts · Answer

Ann-Margret showing us how sexy a woman can be in androgynous clothing: No one will ever beat A-M in Bye Bye Birdie. Her performance in this movie is the first inkling that I was bi.

helen · Answer

Diane Keaton in Annie Hall: Despite issues with Woody Allen...

Whoever styled Diane Keaton in this movie = A+!

Lizzie · Answer

madonna: Not a movie, but this picture of madonna at a party

Jeannette · Answer

Gaby & Liz on Shrinking: In a perfect world, it would be a mash up of both Liz and Gaby on Shrinking. Loud colour & fun prints (Gaby) and great hats & stripes (Liz).

Rachel · Answer

Jean Simmons’ dresses in The Grass is Always Greener: Her orange dress screams against the background of the blue room in the best way possible

Jules · Answer

anne margaret’s pink 2 piece set in bye bye birdie: this was my first hint that being a bad girl might be really fun

Gail · Answer

Rikki specifically: Just add water. Very specific age group for this era, but like, ultimate fit.

D · Answer

Tan France's Suits: In any TV Show that he's in, Tan France is giving fluid femme suit. Never stuffy, always fitted perfectly and accessorized to playful perfection. I aspire.

(The example pictured is from Next in Fashion.)

Catherine Davis · Answer

Carrie Bradshaw’s charcoal mini dress: Is it the dress or the bod that makes this look so iconic? The gold strappy sandals, aviators and fab hair help too.

Rachel · Answer

Marisa Tomei’s Only  You wardrobe: The whole movie is a vibe.

heaths moon · Answer

KST & RF in The English Patient: so chic

aiden · Answer

Sandra Bullock in Practical Magic: blaring This Kiss by Faith Hill

Shellie Gossling · Answer

anne of green gables flower gown: I love the colorful rosettes, the draping, the slight puffed sleeve.  I love the rosettes in her hair.

Katherine · Answer

Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash: Sumptuous Dior amazingness

Christine C · Answer

All of Maggie Cheung's cheongsam in In The Mood Form Love: The whole film is swooningly gorgeous, and so are the main actors. But the variety and patterns of her dresses: a midcentury Hong Kong dream. So unique and stunning.

Tansy Miller-Cole · Answer

zoe kravitz in high fidelity: Honestly anything she wears in the show but especially this coaaaaat

Rebecca Atwood · Answer

barbra in hello dolly: Would simply die to wear

lisa waud · Answer

love and anarchy: i tracked down an alexa chung shirt sophie wears (not pictured here lol)

Cole · Answer

To Die For (1995): Every outfit Nicole Kidman wears as Suzanne Stone in 1995’s To Die For.

madison may · Answer

Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her: Me, shouting: This! Always This!!! There is nothing sexier without being harlequin, nothing more precisely worn, nothing closer to the disaster of a wardrobe malfunction which makes it All! The! Better!!

Ginny Branch · Answer

Drew in Ever After: I barely remember the movie but the dress lives on in my memory

Ginny Branch · Answer

Marion in the fancy dress: This primed my brain to be a Doen customer 😂

Ginny Branch · Answer

Claire Danes as Juliet at her bday party: Flawless

Ginny Branch · Answer

Labyrinth Masquerade Ball Dress: “As the World Falls Down…”

Josefine · Answer

Wonder Woman: Dress for the job you want.

Caitlin · Answer

Mary Lennox from the Secret Garden (1993): My style icon. You’ll know I’ve finally self-actualized when I have the confidence to wear messy pigtails with non-matching ribbons.

Lida Richardson · Answer

Pretty Woman Short-Suit: This is maybe controversial, or at least this People ranking has it pretty low on the list, but I am obsessed with how Julia Roberts looks in this little suit in Pretty Woman. I have this dream about getting really into suiting, but it doesn’t really match my lifestyle. But a little shorts suit? She just looks phenomenal in this movie full stop.

Sarah Cooney · Answer

baroness von schraeder: “Bitch perfect” to quote the linked article, I’ve been obsessed with this suit for thirty years.

Wynne · Answer

Pretty much everything Aidy Bryant wears in Shrill:

And also this outfit that Patti Harrison wears in Shrill.

lauren o · Answer

Every last exquisite Delia Deetz fit.: Catherine O’Hara was an icon in everything she touched, but if I could live my life in her BEETLEJUICE wardrobe, boys -

Allie · Answer

Greta Lee’s outfits in Past Lives (all of ‘em)

Bailee Penski · Answer

amelie :): sweet & romantic

E Noll · Answer

La La Land!

Michelle Rundle · Answer

The atonement dress: The dress from atonement in the sexy library scene

Hannah Harvey · Answer

Molly's Blumarine birthday dress: Everything in Uptown Girls tbh but mostly this dress, forever and ever

Sam Childress · Answer

Rachel McAdams’ Midnight in Paris wardrobe: It’s all so basic yet so perfect and for some reason that blue henley lives rent free in my head