Carbon Costume

Frances is played by Greta Gerwig and is the main character from the film Frances Ha, directed by Noah Baumbach. The film follows Frances as she navigates living in New York. We watch her face adulthood and try to achieve her dreams of becoming a dancer, but she seems to fall behind the people her age in areas like having her own apartment, a stable job, and being okay with not living with her best friend Sophie that achieves this before she does.

This film is entirely in black in white, but her personality still shines through in what pieces Frances chooses to wear. She is a big outfit-repeater, usually wearing a floral dress with leggings underneath, her signature bomber jacket with a fur collar, and without the jacket she wears a white cardigan around her waist to make her stand out against the also-gray background she’s in. When she gets her office job with the dance company in the end, she dresses professionally in a knee-length skirt and the white button down we see her wear previously that fits perfectly into her new look.

Will (played by Seth Rogen) is one half of the friendly duo at the heart of the Apple TV show Platonic.  Will works as a brewmaster for Lucky Penny, a brewery funded primarily by his ex-wife’s step-brother.  He reconnects with Sylvia following his divorce and briefly dates Peyton.  Will dresses pretty outlandishly throughout the series, including donning a bright red jumpsuit following a trip to chain restaurant Johnny 66.  Will wears hip glasses and woven slip-on shoes with most of his outfits, including a green bomber jacket with the Lucky Penny logo on the back and his name embroidered on the front.

Barbara Howard is from the TV series Abbott Elementary and is played by Sheryl Lee Ralph. Barbara is a Kindergarten teacher at the elementary school in the series. She is a kind character that mostly sticks to a traditional way of teaching. Janine Teagues looks up to her for her ability to tackle any situation.

Barbara has a school-appropriate and classy while still stylish approach to her everyday fashion. You’ll usually see her in a patterned blouse, a cardigan, sometimes a matching scarf and often a pearl necklace.

Charlotte is a character from the 90s film Mermaids, and is played by Winona Ryder. Mermaids follows Charlotte who is tired of her mother Rachel moving her family every time she feels like it, and when she’s thinks they will finally settle down in Massachusetts, she realizes she is more like her mother than she thinks and they learn to grow and accept each other.

Charlotte in the beginning of the film is obsessed with living a religious lifestyle, different from her mother and therefore dresses very conservatively like her costume with a black dress, white lace collar, and always a black headband and cross necklace, or her yellow cardigan and gray pleated skirt. Later in the film when she becomes rebellious, she takes her mothers iconic pink retro dotted dress and tries to dress and act like her.

Umbrella Renoir (voiced by Ayaka Shimizu and Cassandra Lee Morris) is a character from the Skullgirls video game franchise.  Umbrella is the younger sister of Parasoul.  Umbrella is rather short with light pink hair.  She wears a yellow ensemble that includes a raincoat, rain hat, and rain boots.  She wields the Living Weapon Hungren; a purple umbrella with monster eyes. To recreate Hungren, take a purple golf umbrella and glue creepy monster eyes onto it with a glue gun.

Usagi is seen in the Princess Serenity in various points of the story, and in a fair amount of the manga art, she is seen with white hair, instead of her usual blonde, though her eyes remain the same blue.

For this outfit, she has a golden moon on her forehead instead of her usual Sailor Moon tiara, pearl stud earrings with a matching bracelet and hair pins, and a long, high waisted white dress, with intricate gold and pearl details, and swirled sleeves.

Sharon (voiced by Kana Hanazawa) is one of the secondary main characters in the anime/manga series Pandora Hearts.

She is first introduced at Oz’s coming of age ceremony, and ends up being a consistent character throughout the rest of the story. She is from the Rainsworth dukedom, and after the timeskip she is shown to have joined Pandora and is contracted to the chain Equus, which prevents her from outwardly aging.

Sharon has almost creamsicle orange colored hair, worn long and tied up in the back with a large red ribbon bow, and soft pinkish-red eyes. She has a variety of outfits throughout the series, though we often see her in this full-bodied purple dress, with large and intricate ruffles and bow details scattered across. The only shot I could find of her shoes was from the manga, but they’re a pinkish-purple heel, with little pink bows lining down the top.

Medusa (voiced in Japanese by Hōko Kuwashima and in English by Luci Christian) is one of the main antagonists in the anime/manga Soul Eater.

She is Crona’s estranged mother, and is a very uncaring and manipulative person. Medusa is a witch, and specializes in snake-based magic. For a short while, she posed as the DWMA’s school doctor in order to gather information about reviving the Kishin.

Medusa has golden, snake-like eyes, and blonde hair in a similar cut to Crona’s, though hers is worn much lower on the side pieces, which follow down into a braid worn over her chest. Her non-disguise outfit is a black one piece jumpsuit, with no sleeves, and short pants, and a hoodie with snake motifs on it. She also has snake ‘tattoos’ on her arms, which can be used in her magic, while fighting. Over the snakes, she wears a silver bangle bracelet, and her nails are done in a black and yellow arrow pattern.

Eleanor is a character from the Wes Anderson film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and is played by Anjelica Huston. The Aquatic Life with Steve Zissou is about an oceanographer that witnessed a shark kill a member of his crew. We follow his journey along with his crew as they encounter pirates and travel the sea. Eleanor is the estranged aristocratic wife of the protagonist, Steve Zissou.

Eleanor both fits in and stands out from the Zissou crew, who wears different variations of blue uniforms and red hats. She has a strong identity and confidence that we can see through her costume, often wearing flowy or linen pieces which are fitting to be by the sea and the summertime. She also wears turquoise jewelry that are shell or beach inspired, as well as blue streaks in her hair.

Valentine (voiced by Asami Imai and Laura Post) is an antagonist from the fighting game Skullgirls.  A surviving member of the Last Hope, Valentine aids Brain Drain in kidnapping and transforming Painwheel.  Valentine has blue hair she wears in a ponytail.  Her dress looks a lot like a sexy nurse uniform, and you can update your costume to be more accurate with pink fabric paint on the dress and cap.  She also wears white flats, bandages wrapped around her calves, and white gloves. She carries a hacksaw.  You can tie pink ribbon into shape and glue it to your leg wraps to get closer to her look from the game.  Lastly, Valentine wears a patch over her heavily scarred right eye, so you’ll need an adhesive eye patch.