Timeline through the Evil Queen’s clothes???

[ciela_crow]

I’ve noticed that you can see a timeline through the outfits and and hairdo of the Evil Queen’s. In the episode “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” you can see the queen with her hair up and in a white dress. Then in the episode “True North” -which i believe to be after Snow White’s fathers death- she has her hair down and is wearing a much darker outfit. Whenever she bursts in on Snow White’s wedding, shes wearing her black outfit with the red feathers and her hair in a long ponytail.
I think that whenever she was playing nice as the queen and shes wearing all white and she seems sweet and sincere. Then whenever she killed her husband she is showing a bit of her true colors. magic could have been banded and then they found out that she was using magic and she could have been banned. Thats when she goes all black clothing with her hair all up. When she was at the wedding snow white said “Shes not a queen anymore, shes just an evil witch” and it looked like the people at the wedding were trying not to look at her. So, these are my bafly explained thoughts. 🙂

[nonnie]

I too have been tracking the EQs clothing and furnishings of the show to correlate with a time line; but more to correlate it to historical time lines of the real world.

For example Desperate Souls where Rumple becomes the Dark One I date back to the early 12-13 century since there are serfs, peasants, knights and over lords.

This Ogre War seems to relate more to the 15-17th century by the style of the clothing. EQ’s clothes seem more like Queen Elizabeth’s fancy ruffs and farthing gales then earlier times. I do think that the writers mix up the costumes to deliberately keep the time lines vague.

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[hjbau]

Does the Queen always have that red streak in her hair? When does that start happening?

I don’t think that you can date the clothing to our centuries because this is an alternate universe not our world or our centuries. The fairytale world is not our world in the distant past.

[obisgirl]

Her outfits are really something. Her hair, whatever she is wearing, always looks interesting. I never thought about the correlation between what the Evil Queen is wearing with the timeline of fairytale events. But if the wardrobe department is getting their inspiration for the EQ’s clothes from historical times like (like the Elizabethian era and others), it’s curious if that clothes from that time would also be considered old in FT land.

Her dress in True North, I think is a typical German ladies dress which would make sense since Hansel and Gretel is a German fairytale. So, I think it is also based on the origin of the fairytale story.

[mia]

Why exactly are you saying it’s German?
Hänsel and Gretel’s clothes may look like it, but the EQ doesn’t. Not to mention she’s also wearing pants. At least I don’t see it. Do you have a pic to relate that? Would help! 🙂

Here are some pics from German traditional clothes of the different regions. Hänsel and Gretel story (as written by the Grimm brothers) is from Baden-Württemberg (it’s the first one).
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracht_%28Kleidung%29#Baden-W.C3.BCrttemberg

[ciela_crow]

I never thought about her clothes relating to our historical timeline. Since this is a fairytale world in an alternate universe I think clothing like that is just normal. I cant see the fairytale characters in their world dressed in modern clothes, it just wouldnt look like a fairytale.but I do think that the outfits are based off of the victorian era. And i loved her outit in true north, but I dont think that it was based off of a german dressed. Hansel and Gretel were on the Queen’s land, and i dont think that she lives in German

[obisgirl]

@mia wrote:

Why exactly are you saying it’s German?
Hänsel and Gretel’s clothes may look like it, but the EQ doesn’t. Not to mention she’s also wearing pants. At least I don’t see it. Do you have a pic to relate that? Would help! 🙂

Here are some pics from German traditional clothes of the different regions. Hänsel and Gretel story (as written by the Grimm brothers) is from Baden-Württemberg (it’s the first one).
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracht_%28Kleidung%29#Baden-W.C3.BCrttemberg

Ok, maybe not the clothes but the EQ’s hat. Daniel mentioned on the podcast it was German.

[mia]

Oh ok. Yeah, the hat is. 😀 Or at least based on the tradinional hats in the south. I loved the hat.

I agree with ciela_crow about the Victorian part. A friend of mine is really into that kind of clothing and she said it reminded her of it.

Anyway, using the EQ clothes as time references is helpful, as we know she only started using black after the King (Snow’s father) died. 🙂

[obisgirl]

I found a still of that hat from the episode and I know, the German hat is probably called something special but I don’t know what.

any Once German fans out there, who might know? 😉

on the subject of once costumes, there a livejournal community specifically dedicated to the costumes from ouat.

[ciela_crow]

I looked at the still photo, and I can see how the queen’s outfit coul be german. You can google “images of german hats” and hats that look similar to the queen’s will pop up. I think that the writers did try to make her look german because Hansel and Gretel were german in the origional fairytales.

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