Costumes - Revised

In the first half of Antique’s the young woman is dressed in checkered red and white dress, the vintage style of the dress links to the costume’s worn by Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, this continues to confirm the idea that the young woman needs to escape her dreamlike state. This costume causes her to stand out among her surroundings, therefore presenting to the audience that the young woman is lost and alone in an unknown world.

In the second half of the music video the young woman’s costume changes into what would be perceived as the current high street fashion. This costume change represents the young woman’s immersion into her own dream.

The second important costume is that of the bunny masked man. Once again trying to confirm the link between ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘Antiques’, in order to present the uncertainty of a dreamlike sate, the bunny’s costume was based mainly around the attire of Mr. Rabbit. The tweed coat, being the key piece of costume that appears in both the 1903 adaptation and the original Tenniel drawing’s, was the main feature of the costume, followed by a checkered red shirt. The shirt creates a link between the Bunny and the young woman due to the similar patterns presented on their clothing, this confirms the idea that the bunny is part of her mind and that she is in a sense running from herself.

The bunny mask itself is used in order to confirm the dreamlike state and present the young woman with a danger and fear that she must overcome, in this case the personification of animalistic nature.