What I’ve noticed about the character wardrobe in Mean Girls

 With Mean Girls being a top 5 favorite of mine I’ve rewatched it more times than I can count. And something about the choice of wardrobe in the movie has always stuck out to me. Each member of the plastics has their own subtle representative color. The way Cady's main color when she first starts Northridge is a very bright red with her overall vibe being very nature chic because she lived in Africa prior to midwestern suburbia. But, once she is recruited to infiltrate the plastics by Janis and Damien she is given his oversized pink button up shirt as a way to fit the role more effectively. Damien’s ill-fitting pink polo acts as a representation

of Cady allowing her identity to be uncomfortably altered, and diluted into one of Regina’s minions and wearing that identity in a ‘sheep in wolf’s clothing’ type of way. I say sheep in wolf’s clothing because initially Cady is quite unaware of the concept and structure of social hierarchy in Northridge. As she is simply doing whatever she thinks is necessary to make friends. People taking advantage of that naivety is what triggered her spiral into the leader of the plastics. And as she develops this plan to take Regina down, the color of her wardrobe represents how the real Cady and plastic Cady start to merge. Like in the iconic scene of Cady falling into the

trash can while walking with the plastics where she is wearing her baby blue jacket with a pink shirt underneath, and a pink and blue skirt. The pink peaking from under the blue shows how Cady is trying to prove to herself and everyone else that despite these drastic attempts to take down Regina; she is still Cady and denying the new unlikable character she’s turned herself into. But underneath she’s becoming a copy of Regina starting from her inner self and making its way out into the way she presents herself even when she’s away from the plastic group. 

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