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Women's Romy and Michele's High School Reunion Cosplay Costume Mini-dress Adult Costume

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Fashion lovers old and young can appreciate Romy and Michele’s unapologetic style, but there’s more to it than just sartorial eye candy. Mona May, the film’s costume designer who is also behind the looks in Clueless, House Bunny, and Never Been Kissed, created the rainbow-colored world of Romy and Michele, channeling the characters’ bond into their outfits. “I love when they’re getting dressed and there’s this whole camaraderie of friendship and girliness. It adds to the whole understanding of their friendship and how close they are,” she explains to NYLON during a Zoom interview. Are you a bit desperate to impress this Halloween? Well, we have a fantastic costume theme just for you. Yup, you should definitely consider teaming up with a bestie to go as Romy and Michelle for your costume party! The duo from Romy and Michele's High School Reunion was on a mission to impress all of their former classmates at their 10-year high school reunion. So, if you're a casual type gal and have a friend who has the same outlook on life, the two of you will be perfect to play the part of the iconic characters! When we first meet fashionable Valley girls Romy White and Michele Weinberger (played by Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow) in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, they’re sitting in their beachfront apartment, eating popcorn while watching Pretty Woman. “I just get really happy when they finally let her shop,” Michele says. The two friends then get ready for a night out, standing in front of a closet filled with candy-colored garments constructed with sequins, beads, and feathers. It’s a maximalist’s dream come true.

When it came to piecing everything together and the fittings—Kudrow and Sorvino alone had somewhere between 40 and 50 costume changes—it ended up being a hands-on process, sounding like how one might imagine Romy and Michele getting ready on a Friday night. "It was such a collaborative effort," May says. "The fittings were so much fun. Sometimes we did the fittings together, too, so it was like, 'Oh, my god. Are you wearing that? No, I'm wearing this! I'm borrowing it from your closet!'" Even though the girls coordinate their clothing, May made sure each of their looks corresponded to their personalities. For example, Michele was the creative one, and super girly and fun, so she wore a lot of pink, feathers, and glitter, whereas Romy was a little more serious and streamlined since she was the “brains in the family.” May gave her a cooler-toned palette. Despite the movie being fashion-focused, there surprisingly wasn’t much in the script when it came to Romy and Michele’s clothing, except that it should be colorful. May says that the director, David Mirkin, wholly entrusted her with the characters’ aesthetic. “It was really fun because it gave us a more of a fluid opening for me, Lisa, and Mira to be in the fittings and get into it together, and really create these characters,” she says. I loved her pantsuit. It was like something Marlena Dietrich would have worn,” May says. “It was Ralph Lauren and very timeless, very boss-lady and supported that line where [Christie] says that she’s jealous and calls her a [ball-busting] career woman. It was perfect, and again, timeless.” As they say, they're "not being conceited," they're "just being honest." It's true—the 28-year-old Angelenos do look so freaking cute. With a closet like theirs, full of platform shoes and homemade sequined dresses, they always look fabulous. But clothes are more than just looking cute for them: Style is integral to their idea of self-expression and their friendship, which is the center of the 1997 comedy directed by David Mirkin and written by Robin Schiff.When choosing your Romy and Michele outfits, you might consider the businesswoman outfits they wear when they arrive at their high school reunion. That's a great choice, but the best costumes from Romy and Michele's High School reunion are the self-designed dresses they made themselves. The vibrant outfits were perfect representations of their unique personality and style. And, you guessed it, we have costumes that are perfect recreations of the Romy and Michele dresses from the movie! Of course, it was Lisa who helps validate Romy and Michele’s fashion expertise when she defends their reunion dresses to a still-bullying Christie: “They have nice lines. A fun, frisky use of color. All and all, I’d have to say they’re really… not bad.”

Lisa asked what Mira was wearing, so I showed her the dress and she was like, ‘You know what, I feel like we should be very similar’ and started discussing it,” May explains. “And I felt it was really smart, because we concluded that you don’t want them to be too different. They’ve grown up, and they are the best friends. And it’s about them coming to their power in a way. Like, screw it, ‘we can be ourselves!’ So it was less distracting, more uniform, and really kind of connecting them together.” It was really important for me to create a look that showed they were self-made girls. Every detail was so important, but it was customized to feel like it was homemade or created together,” she says. “I never wanted it to feel like it was a runway show or posh. Nothing should really feel posh. They have great style, and they were smart. They had every Vogue magazine for 10 years, so they studied, they knew what was going on.” Romy and Michele look like they dress the same, but they embody different styles.

May says, "It's such a good thing, I think, for the designer to work with actors and be very open because they have to fill the shoes. As you even do the fittings, more and more details come out and they start feeling who the character is for them, too." As involved as the stars were, though, they each had their own ideas and different favorite pieces. Kudrow, for one, was obsessed with the cherry accessories from the '50s that May thrifted, and Sorvino supplied pieces from her own closet, like the silver dress she wears to the club to try to snag a hot date to the reunion.

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