In this adaptation of the Disneyland ride, Emily Blunt plays an early 20th-century scientist and adventurer — I’m inferring the latter based on her willingness to, in the words of CCR, run through the jungle — and she and Jessica Paster must have worked together to find promotional outfits that read as modern spins on what her character might wear for said cavorting through the wilds. All this is missing is a safari hat and a set of worn leather binoculars swinging from her neck, and perhaps the pants being tucked into some tall lace-up boots. From a kitschy, costumey point of view, then, I enjoy this; it’s swashbuckling fun. From a practical POV, the pants evoke when you realize you hung the curtain rod just a TOUCH too low, and the top looks like bedding.
Here’s another one, by Zimmermann (click the links, as usual, if the embeds don’t show up for you):
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This feels like a woman on her way out of the Victorian era, learning about the practicality of pants and the ventilation potential of just a tiny touch of skin showing. She probably wore this to dinner on the Jungle Cruise, before realizing that “dinner” is really just sitting on the deck cooking fish on a stick.
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I am not sure whether those are culottes, as it appears, or a skirt. This has the vibe of, “I’m a travel photographer and I will surprise you with my willingness to climb trees to get the shot.”
They changed things up with the next batch:
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The orange on slide 1 is Gabriela Hearst, and I rather like it. The floral jumpsuit, which is okay — at least it’s lively? — is Prabal Gurung, and I appreciate them both for having a color palette. The last slide is another wan Zimmermann. I want to free that skirt from the blouse.
Finally, this deviation from time-period is from a Hollywood Reporter cover shoot, which explains why she looks more like a CGI version of herself than the real thing:
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It explains it, of course, but doesn’t excuse it. Nobody needs to be airbrushed into look like their own animated self. The McQueen blouse looks like she was attacked in the jungle by an exotic parasite. So I guess it IS on-theme, in its own… unique… way.
