the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!
this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).
pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.
digital pdf zine in higher quality available here.
Ariana Grande’s new album “petal” will be out on July 31st, it features 12 tracks and is being released under her own label BabyDoll Music in collaboration with Republic Records, which means she owns the masters to this album.
I’m reblogging this again because the absolute joy in this video is something I haven’t seen in such a long time that I’d forgotten this aspect of humanity.
A Comprehensive (But Incomplete) Guide to the Different Versions of Cinderella's Rags – Part #1
Thanks to @adarkrainbow for giving me the idea for this post. So much attention is always given to Cinderella's ballgown in adaptations of the tale, but not enough to the plain, ragged clothes she wears while slaving for her stepfamily through most of the story. I won't rank the different costumes, but I will share my thoughts on each of them.
I'd also like to tag @ariel-seagull-wings, @themousefromfantasyland, @the-blue-fairie, and @thealmightyemprex.
Mlle. Barral – Georges Méliès's silent short Cendrillon (1899), the oldest surviving film version of the tale
Simple, baggy, and drab. Not very memorable, but efficient.
Florence La Badie – Thanhouser's silent short Cinderella (1911)
Another plain, simple dress, but more tailored to her figure, so it doesn't hide her beauty like Mlle. Barral's rags. The tattered half-apron adds a nice servant-like touch, though her long ringlets are a little too stylish for this early point in the story.
Mary Pickford – Famous Players' Cinderella (1914)
It looks as if she's wearing a once-pretty floral patterned dress, but one that's thoroughly in shreds and tatters, and with a peasant-style bodice. It's an interesting costume: ragged and pathetic, yet lithe and lively. Her braided pigtails are a nice touch too: not only an efficient hairstyle for work, but a childlike hairstyle, so that their transformation into stylish ringlets for the ball seems like a coming-of-age moment.
Very simple, easy to animate, and appropriately ragged and plain, while still hugging her figure in all the right places because she's Betty Boop. It's a little odd that she should wear bracelets, earrings, and high heels with her rags, but Betty would probably seem incomplete without them, like Miss Piggy without her evening gloves.
Yanina Zhejmo – Zolushka (1947)
This Russian Cinderella wears a slightly more complex peasant outfit – blouse, striped blue bodice, heavy brown skirt, half-apron, tattered shawl, Dutch cap, wooden clogs – which is ragged and frayed, yet cute and folksy too. It also seems to have been a big influence on later Russian depictions of Cinderella, since the 1979 animated short and the 2002 TV version both give her very similar costumes.
Disney's animated Cinderella (1950)
Disney's Cinderella stands out from earlier versions with her more mature personality and "air of queenly grace," and her lightly tattered yet smart-looking servant dress suits her portrayal. The browns create a sense of drabness and dirt, but the turquoise sleeves add a light, feminine touch, as does the blue ribbon in her hair, and the sleek silhouette reveals her grace and beauty – although the calf-length skirt is more 1950 than 19th century. And there's an in-universe explanation for why it's not more ragged, as in the opening scene, we see her devoted mouse friends cleaning and mending it for her.
The Spanish animated film Érase una vez... ("Once Upon a Time") (1950)
Very plain and simple, as if we're harking back to the Betty Boop design – though again, the turquoise color adds soft femininity. Compared to the other characters' more elaborate medieval costumes, it's almost too stark, but it must have been very easy to animate.
Rita-Maria Nowotny – Fritz Genschow's Aschenputtel (1955)
A nice, solid, poor and humble, yet quaint and charming peasant outfit in blue and white.
Leslie Caron – The Glass Slipper (1955)
This grubby, rebellious Cinderella is just as unconventional in looks as she is in characterization! Her simple chemise, corset, and skirt – with a half-apron sometimes added – make her look poor and dirty yet free-spirited and unbothered by her appearance, which she is, and her boyishly short, messy hair enhances the effect. Her look also reminds me of Éponine from Les Misérables, which suits both her "gamine" personality and the fact that she's French.
Julie Andrews – Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical (1957)
Another simple and plain yet dignified "ladies' maid" type of servant costume, worn with her hair in a prim and proper bun, which suits Andrews' ladylike Cinderella. Besides the dress and apron, she also has a smart-looking hat with a ribbon around it, which she wears when she goes out with her stepfamily on their shopping spree for the ball.
Lesley Ann Warren – Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical (1965)
I'll admit, the bold orange of the underdress and kerchief make this outfit look more costume-like than realistically medieval. But the color does make the outfit pop, and the dress looks poor and ragged, yet at the same time flowy and feminine, which suits Warren's waifish beauty. Whether intentionally or not, the pairing of dull grayish-brown and bright orange also evokes the colors of cinders and fire.
Belinda Montgomery – Tales from Muppetland: Hey, Cinderella! (1969)
Simple yet classic Cinderella rags, unremarkable yet effective – except for the short '60s skirt, which is obviously an anachronism, but which adds to the playful, irreverent tone of this Muppet version of the tale.
Eva Hrusková – Popelka, 1969
Another cute and folksy union of blouse, bodice, and skirt, only slightly tattered, and paired with girlish braided pigtails, which as with Pickford make her seem to mature before our eyes when her hair is later styled up with her ballgown.
Another orange dress – again, maybe to evoke a hearth – with another anachronistically short skirt. This outfit definitely looks more like a costume than real clothes, especially paired with the sheer volume of that unconvincing blonde wig. But it suffices and suits the tone of this quirky Turkish adaptation.
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