#windowpane plaid

All of Tang Yi’s amazing sport coats and suits in HIStory 3: Trapped. Plus the one time he got his baby into an adorable vintage inspired one. 

One of my favorite character-as-fashion moments with Tang Yi is that he usually wears a lapel pin of some kind. Despite being a mafia character, normally known for (and depicted in) lots of jewelry, this is his only flair (well, and a watch). 

This costume choice emphasized that fancy suits made up part of Tang Yi’s legitimate business (and probably money laundering). By using a lapel pin wardrobe added this air of mafia + schoolboy that’s aggressively innocent... like Tang Yi’s personality. Also they remind us that no matter how beautiful his suit, he’s still mafia. It was such a clever costuming decision. 

WINDOWPANE DREAMS

Spring 2014

Barbara Casasola

MUCH LIKE CHRIS I WANT TO RUN TO THE OTHER END OF THE ROOM I CAN’T FUCKING HANDLE THIS. 

There’s no way to get across the delivery of these lines, and the use of silence here. Chris is done fighting back, nothing Mary Beth has ever said to her has ever caused the ache in her that hearing these words has. She can’t even really look at her after she says she cares, after she uses Chris’ full name to bring home that, yes, I am talking to you, I am talking about you, and only you, when i say this. 

And Chris just breaks. She can’t speak, she can’t look up, because if she does either of those things she’s going to fucking burst into tears, and she can’t do that, not CHRISTINE CAGNEY, KNOWN ICE COLD ROCK ISLAND. 

Mary Beth is right when she says it scares Chris, to have someone who loves her that much, even with what a mess she is, and for it to be someone like Mary Beth, who has her shit together, who has a happy calm domestic life. Why would she ever care about someone like Chris? And why would she care so much to fight for her? To fight for her this hard? 

Mary Beth gets so gentle here, she doesn’t want to yell, she never really wanted to in the first place, but Chris makes it so hard to just fucking talk to her sometimes, she has no setting between joking and yelling, but when Chris can’t talk anymore, when it’s all too much, she quiets, but she’s still so direct, as direct as Chris needs her to be to get this shit through her fucking skull. 

Silk Taffeta Day Dress, ca. 1845-48