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Ask and ye shall receive?

The high waisted skirt one is my favorite om nom nom

Musings, with spoilers:

*inb4 “she’s looked into the future” or w/e. If for some reason you think she must’ve embraced 80s fashion values and chose the costume change moment to make some kind of statement about her sexuality (despite saying that she couldn’t find a complete outfit), that would be narratively ridiculous. The corset has inescapable sexual connotations. That this is what she changes into conveys a loss of sexual innocence or a sexual awakening from a previous non-sexual state… after MURDERING SOMEONE? I think they meant to convey a loss of emotional and ideological innocence, but they confused the issue with lingerie.



Clothing carries meaning and can be an effective tool to convey a message. If you don’t know the meaning, you cannot use the tool correctly and can easily break your entire character.

ADDITIONALLY

By having the corset be part of the costume proper, they also narratively hamstrung themselves at a vital moment. Imagine that the corset was not exposed as part of the costume. Now imagine the scene where Booker has finally reached Liz at the Siphon. What was once merely what she had been wearing at the time has become a visual metaphor. She has been exposed and made vulnerable. Her defenses have been physically and metaphorically removed. I could go on, you get the point. It means less than it could have because the corset is what we expected to see.