what happened to ariel's princess dress 🐟🌊☀️
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- i had multiple people ask my thoughts on ariel's dress from the little mermaid movie, so i decided make this! i come off a bit harsher than i intended cus i wrote the script when i was in a "mood" 😅 i don't HATE the dress i promise, i just think it's the weakest of all the disney princess gowns. what do you think?
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2:28 yes people i know she's 30 in this movie, i'm saying i like the dress for "mature" ariel but it wouldn't work for her 16 year old self which is what they market her as
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The dress was pink was supposed to clash. She wasn’t expected so they had to quickly get a dress. It was like the palace staff just had to find a dress that fit.
Where DID they get a dress anyway? lol We never see Eric's mother or any sisters in either of the movies he is in. There are no other royal women in the castle....just the servants. So how DID they find a dress that was not only worthy of a Princess, but one that fit Ariel perfectly in such a short amount of time? lol
@@CeltycSparrow probably because former queens' dresses were still around?
@@PrincessofEllabur They say that he's King of Cinderella's kingdom. Rumor has it that the King and the Grand Duke from Cinderella are attending the wedding when Eric marries Ursula
I'd say that the main problem is that they chose to advertise her in the dress for a while.
@infinityrose92 I'm pretty sure the story takes place in Denmark seeing as the original telling was written and published in Copenhagen by Danish author Hans Christian Anderson
To be honest i like her blue outfit more than the pink one and yet theres no merch for it!! I mean COME ON MAN!!! THE BOW IS ADORIBLE
Do it for the Cringe ME TOO I love that whole look and I wish I could dress like that!
Aw, yes, her blue dress was such a look.
YAZZ I LOVE HER BLUE DRESS DO MUCH
The blue dress is absolutely gorgeous! I love it! Also the sparkly one at the end needs more merch
Used to have an Ariel Barbie doll who came with the blue peasant dress back in the 90s. What I rarely see is truly that pink dress. Even back then I can't say I've ever seen it being advertised.
I love her pink dress though. It represents her character as being out of place well. But I also wish we would see more of her blue dress, I mean it’s so pretty and fits her better than the pink.
Because Ariel is literally my absolute favorite princess ever, I associate her with all of her costumes but most of the time I just think of her mermaid self, it just makes sense, the whole plot of the movie is that she can't not be a mermaid, I do like the dress, but I will admit, it doesn't make a ton of sense but also kinda does. It's different, it's not the standard that you would think of for a mermaid because, well, they didn't know she was one. When one thinks of the general idea of a princess, they think of pink, simply from the princess stereotype. Carlotta, the maid, dresses Ariel in what appears to be the idea of what a princess would wear. Now, you may be like "well they didn't know she was a princess" well yes, but she was a girl, who Eric thought was nice and pretty and funny, and unlike other Disney storylines, Eric was allowed to marry any girl he chose as long as he married, at least, that's what we can assume as it is never mentioned he MUST MARRY A PRINCESS. Anyway, Carlotta dressed her like a princess, presumably, because she and Grimsby were, in the words of Donkey: animals, and they got instincts. They could see the chemistry so they dressed her in what was seen as the finest in fashion AKA a princess dress. At the end of the movie, you can see Ariel is wearing the same style, however it suits her better, it's white because it's a wedding dress but the seafoam green makes it more her style. So in the end, she is getting used to the human world and has learned how to be her same quirky self while still enjoying the life of a human. Anywho thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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I thought the pink dress made perfect sense. It was not her. It was something they had or bought to dress her with. Where as the dresses in the sequel made sense because she could choose or have made anything she wanted for her style.
@@Nuswodahs exactly!
@infinityrose92 oh that makes sense
Ya it doesn't look good on her but totally makes sense and fits in with the story. Someone also mentioned how the unfitting dress represents awkward ariel in the human world
Just a side note that I learned from one of Lavendertownes videos, the pink dress might of been a way of symbolizing her being out of place, with the clashing colors and it appearing to big.
That's just a theory not really a fact. It's just an excuse.
I think pink and red are lovely together. It just very much depends on whether their chromas clash. A pink tone with a red shade look terrible together, whereas a muted cranberry is sweet with a dusty rose.
ariel, tiana, and jasmine's princess dresses are my favorite ones when i was a kid♡♡♡
3:32 I don’t see why Ariel *has* to be in an opulent dress for marketing reason...
Moana, Mulan, Pocahontas and Jasmine are many of the best and most iconic characters/outfits ever! All without the blingy, traditional princess dress.
But then again, I don’t work in Disney’s marketing department- so I have no clue. 🤷♀️😆
I really like the idea of her signature dress being a seafoam color for the obvious, but I think purple would work just as well and it could allude to her choice (bra) as opposed to a physical trait (tail). And she would've been the first in purple🤷♀️ Great video btw, I subscribed =)
Because Ariel signature color is sea green .
Rapunzle colour is purple.
I actually really loved the sparkly gown
Ugh tianas baby blue party dress had me PICKY over my dresses as a kid.. WHY DISNEY MAKING DRESSES SO GORGEOUS, FOR WHAT
colour association, shes green and purple when she’s herself, and pink when trying to fit into the royal mould without her voice. that’s why her wedding dress would have green, but the dinner dress is pink.
I like the new dress. I think it looks better than the pink. Honestly I never understood why they made it pink in the first place when they already had a pink dress for Aurora. So happy they made it green instead to match the colour of the mermaid tail. Makes more sense
I've always though the fact of drawing her in pink dress and pink gown as a way to separate her from sea..., she is in a new place, dry and strange , so she doesnt wears her colors because she doesnt feel comfortable yet. When she drives with Eric she wears cold colors more linked to sea because she feels more herself, also they end the travel in the lake. In the end of the movie she wears this light purple as a mix between her 2 worlds since she turned into human but still related to the sea (when Ursula transformed her was more like "now you are human and you cannot back to see unless you fail, therefore you will be in sea forever and being my slave") . At least that is my theory.
When I was nine I used my own babysitting money to buy a ream of fabric that was sparkly shiny light ocean blue, and silky and soft, just like Ariel's final transformation dress. I didn't know how to turn fabric into a dress, so I just played with the raw material. One day, about a month before my birthday, it disappeared. I was heartbroken, but when I went downstairs on my birthday, my grandma was there holding a little simple knee-length sundress made of the material. I wore that dress until it fell apart and then I saved the peices.
Moral of the story: DISNEY SHOULD HAVE MADE THE OCEAN DRESS ARIELS OFFICIAL PRINCESS GOWN FITE ME
It’s gorgeous, but looks like it was made by Paris Hilton and doesn’t really fit inline with Ariel or the movie.
My nostalgia demands a return of the pink dress. It's my personal favorite from the film. But my favorite color is green. And I love the new, green dress anyway /shrug
Green is a very flattering color on her.
I see people arguing that her pink reflects how out-of-place she is being on land. I look at it this way: the pink dress her represents her early life on the land, distanced from her former life as a mermaid while still getting adjusted to life as a human. The green dress is what she wears now, having acquired a sense of fashion that calls back to her teenage years under the sea. I think it's rather poetic for Disney to design her a new dress now, to show how much Ariel has changed over the years.
Her blue boat dress is the best dress tbh
I adore her pink dress mainly for the silhouette. But I think the style and pink highlight how literal of a “fish out of water” she is, like it’s not her. I always felt her later options were more chosen by her and that’s why they fit her better rather than accentuating her difference.
I felt that sentiment about the pink dress since I was a kid. That pink and red only looks good in certain instances like different textures and fabrics, maybe even a micro mosaic design.
My favourite Ariel dress is so the sparkly out of the water dress
Like, I SO want to own one
I believe it was a dress that was just lying around the castle.They couldn’t whip up a random dress to match her hair since she couldn’t go to dinner naked. Brown hair looks really good in pink and back when this movie was made, a lot of children enjoyed pink. I think that’s why the dress is there
I wouldn't mind them changing the dress to green so much if they had kept the rest of the design the same, I get that as the dresses get re-marketed and modernised they all get sparkly and stuff but if they had changed the colour first then added all the other sparkles in a later version I would be able to adjust to the green separately.
Of course that's just me and I understand that changing the dress to the opposite colour may have been a bit much for most people if it had been hardly changed previously but I just don't like that it has changed so much that it's no longer a new design of the same dress but a whole different dress.
I actually think the pink dress fits with the fact that Ariel is not fully understanding of the human world. You see, she just hopped out of water so I don’t think she would’ve have a clear understanding of color scheme? Maybe that’s why she picked the pink dress. She probably didn’t know it would clash with her hair, she probably just liked the color.
Honestly I like that she doesn’t wear pink in the parks because the pink with red hair reminds me of Anastasia from Cinderella
I literally have a polly pocket of Ariel with the pink dress it’s so pretty
The problem with Ariel's pink dress isn't that pink clashes with red, but WHICH pink they used. If you've ever painted you'd probably run into the issue of color tones clashing. Ariel's hair is a very warm color. So is her skin tone. So why on earth did they give her a pink shade with BLUE undertones?! It immediately clashes and washes out ALL of her color. In painting if you were to mix together that red and that pink you'd end up with an muted, brownish pink color. If you look at all the other redheads wearing pink correctly you showed, you'd see all their pink shades are warm toned.
Ariana Grande in Victorious looked good in pink and she had the same hair color as Ariel
I never liked the pink gown as a kid. But as an adult you can see that it fits. Ariel didn’t pick the gown herself, the staff at the castle probably had to find something for her quickly. Maybe an old dress from someone else in the castle. The color just shows that it’s not her dress. As for Ariels taste, she have never used above the sea fashion. And her target is not discovering that part of this new place. It is getting Eric. She is building her own style later, after she has won her prince (as we can see in the second movie).
My fav has got to be the sparkly green one
2:22 I REMEMBER THIS GAME!! i was just thinking about it before it came on screen
When I was a kid the red hair and pink dress bothered me and I actually liked her new green dress
"Red and Pink Don't Mix"
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(I do agree, tho, blue-green would have looked so much better on Ariel had they used it from the start)
Ariel is not a "natural colored" red head which is a more orange color, she's more of an red, red head which does go with light skin and pink dresses... I mean hello, valentine's day is all pink and red...
I always thought they made the dress clash with her hair on purpose to show that she's out of her element. Though from that perspective it makes it pretty weird to have it in all their marketing for so long so who knows
While I agree that this shade of pink wasn't a very flattering color on Ariel I feel like it fits the story. The dress isn't hers, it's something the castle staff found for her to wear. It probably belonged to Eric's mother, the queen. It also subtlety points to how awkward she is on land and how she isn't used to it. It helps the story but it really shouldn't be her iconic dress. I feel like maybe Disney should have created a dress in the movie that fits with the other dresses but also signifies her true form and her happy ending.
Pink looks good with red, pink is like pastel red
Fun fact: Lucille Ball was a natural Brunette. She dyed her hair to make more of a comedic statement
I'm not sure how i feel about the super sparkly and ornate version of the green dress, but in that transition phase where it's the same style and design of her in-movie pink dress but now in green i think looks a lot better with her hair color and also since it's a Sea foam shade, it kinda ties in well with her association with the sea and marine life. Also correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't in the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, she turned into sea-foam at the end.
I agree with you that the colour choice was off. I mean if they wanted her to have pink in her colour palette, some of her sisters have a pink fish tail. It didn't have to be green. With her red hair the green looks great. Personally looking at the lineup of her marketing materials I like the light green version of the original dress. I'm not a fan of puffy sleeves but it was in when the movie was made. The sparkly dress she comes out of the ocean in looks so out of place in comparison to everything else.
The pink dress isn’t HER official dress it’s just something they gave her so that she wouldn’t be wearing an old sale. Like of course they didn’t give her a customized dress that’s is perfect for her cause they wouldn’t have that in hand plus they didn’t even know her! Also I never really thought of the pink dress as her dress but she never really did have an official dress to me
I love Ariel the way she is no matter what
I love her new green gown
Well, I just want to put my two cents in as a professional artist who has a degree in painting (which involves knowing colors very well), I would like to say that I love Ariel's new green dress so much more than her old pink one. I grew up with Disney so I am just as nostalgic as the rest of you, but I was never fond of the pink dress. And yes, I will confirm as an artist Pink and Red do not go together. And no, pink is NOT light red. Pink requires adding a bit of purple to a light red mixture to properly be "pink." If you saw actual "light red" it doesn't look like pink. It's more salmon-colored. Although to be fair, I was the little kid who colored Santa Clause green in my coloring book. So I have no problems changing the colors of traditions.
Idk I liked her pink dress so much better but I guess the green one is great to.
2:22 I remember that game but with Barbie as a mermaid 😭😂😂❤️❤️
I didn't even know she changed dress color
The pink dress is just so boring but honestly I feel like it doesn’t make since for the scene for her to have a really pretty dress. I feel like her “princess” dress or the one that should be really fancy is when king triton turns her human again at the end of the movie
The purple dress that you felt was too mature for 16 year old Ariel wasn’t worn by 16 year old Ariel. It was worn by 26-30 year old Ariel because Melody’s birthday was being celebrated. (I believe it was her 13th birthday but don’t quote me on it.)
I think of it that way: This dress came out of nowhere. Somebody bought it for her or something, or maybe it was the queen's dress. Like, well... everything she wears in the movie.
I think the pink color suit the timid expectations of women of the time, instead of the bold green she got later.
I really liked the red and pink...
late to the party here- but just to add- the green she wears in the sequel isn't really *green* green- it's not the bright lime green- it is, in fact, 'sea foam' green, which for a mermaid is kind of horrifying (especially given the context of the original fairytale's ending. XD)
Rapunzel is a Disney princess who has the color purple
The "sparkly gown" was actually "magic". It was a way to have her onscreen without being NAKED.
Exactly we got to keep it pg
Okay this made me shook ngl.
Never knew this!!! 🤯
i thought it was more on the aphrodite thing where the water turned into clothes to stay close to her but here her dad changed the water into a dress to not be naken
@@pavalemanelomeli9868 ill go with this, from no on because its a pretty cool explanation
Not doing a seafoam green dress with pearls, to begin with, was a missed opportunity! Almost referencing the book's ending.
i did not even think of that and WOW what a missed opportunity. it would’ve been so good 😩
That was the original idea! They wanted (when Triton turns her human) to have her in a sea foam dress, but they would’ve been animating that till way past the release date. That’s why they went with the sparkly purple dress
Wouldn’t that be an abomination for her to wear pearls? Because she was a citizen of the ocean formerly
@@TheCc064 I mean it'd probably just be along the same line of humans wearing horse hair wigs, or wearing a wool sweater, it's things that are aesthetic that don't harm the wildlife we share the shore with just as a mermaid wearing a pearl necklace would be the same thing. I'm pretty sure one of Ariel's sisters is wearing pearls at some point too
Edit: yes, I looked it up, Aquata has pearls in her ponytail
That's exactly what I was thinking 👏
I actually really liked how the pink dress didn't really fit Ariel: she was trying to be something other than herself at this part of the story, trying to fit into a mould of what she thought "human princess" is like. The pink dress that doesn't work with her colouring or with the colours that are "hers" visually tells just that. Following the same logic, it makes perfect sense that in the sequel she'd be wearing green and purple.
Oh! Nice theory. Could this actually be intentional??? Awkward pink awkward ariel?
I don’t think it’s that deep
I like this, I wish they had a wow factor dress somewhere else! Like her wedding dress isn't super unique so somewhere else
I just figured it was borrowed. She was there for a day or two and somebody whipped that up for her? More likely Eric has a little dark haired cousin or something and it is her dress.
this also makes sense with the way the dress is a little too big on her
I think most people forget about the whole context of the movie and why she has a random, non-extravagant dress to begin with. She just randomly showed up and they found a dress that would fit. If they found this amazing, fancy dress that matched her mermaid tail, that would be a bit too convenient wouldn't it?
Not to mention that no one in the castle knew that she was actually a princess.
I love the dress, I also love the color and don't see an issue with her hair. But I wouldn't necessarily describe it as pink but dusty rose. And I absolutely hate that Disney changes the dresses they created. It's just wrong and not representitive of the movie/princess. They couldn't have sold those dresses to me.
Eric is a prince. It wouldn't take long to get her a dress. Anyway, the issue is that Disney decided that dress was going to be Ariel's iconic dress. It's on all of the merchandise where she doesn't have a fish tail.
@@RainAngel111 the movie is set in the late 1800s, if they had have wanted to make her a dress they would have had to make one to her measurements exactly, and then make the dress from scratch. a basic dress in that era could probably have been made in a day or so, but given the normal amount of extravagance put into a Disney princess dress it would have taken quite a long time. and i also think that, as the video mentioned, the dinner wasn't very formal or important so going to the lengths of getting a dress handmaid would have been odd.
@@RainAngel111 yeah you can totally just have a custom dress made for this naked girl that just showed up.. its gonna take at least a day, so she has to wear something in the mean time.
I don’t really think that Disney was ever going for *realism*. She could have “accidentally” found a green dress, it’s not too ridiculous in the context of a cartoon Disney movie about mermaids. Also, the fact they used this random dress as her main “iconic” dress is what I personally have an issue with.
I really hate that they changed Cinderella’s silver dress to blue but mostly hate that they changed her strawberry blonde hair to yellow!
i hate that they changed her hairstyle! they made her have a top knot with some strands hanging down her face and it looks like crap
yes, cinderella had the worst character redesign of them all. the only thing they needed to change was by giving her ears
Completely agree the silver
was stunning
@@aviatress5643 this.
And they try to make belle look like a brunette sleeping beauty
Longer hair and copy paste face
Plus yellow instead of gold dress
I love the pink dress and it’s the one I usually associate with Ariel, in fact I actually completely forgot she has a green dress now
@Mona Subramanian same
PinkPerfectPeach Same LoL
SAME
I actually really hate the purple one and I kinda think it looks weird
Really more on the greenish side of teal.
I like the original dress! It gave an impression of hand-me-down. At the time it’s not like people could just go shopping or create a dress in a day or two. The pink dress looks like it velonged to someone else first, perhaps one of the royal family members years back. Ariel doesn’t belong to her new world, and she’s there on borrowed time. Someone else’s life, someone else’s dress. In my opinion her true ”princess gown wasn’t the pink, but her wedding dress which has her colors and is obvi made for her
yess totally agree with you! the dress is beautiful but it doesn't look perfectly made/chosen for her and it totally fits with the story. i also really liked the idea that it wasn't perfect however she somehow still looked breathtaking (for me as a child).
I agree.
And had to be altered at the last minute
Considering the dress borrows designs from the dresses of the preceding princesses, it is a hand-me-down even in a meta sense!
@@izzyv.6169 Stop making excuses
I've seen the reason that they changed it in the park as people were mistaking her for Sleeping beauty which I know is a bit silly considering she has red hair but a lot of younger kids thought she was plus sleeping beauty is associated with the pink dress which is why they stopped letting sleeping Beauty wear a blue dress as she was being mistaken for Cinderella
Tbh it kinda annoys me that sleeping beauty only gets associated with a pink dress, considering she was wearing the blue dress in the most important moments of the film, when Prince Phillip wakes her up with a kiss and when she pricks her finger. Like I get that she might get mistaken for Cinderella so I’m not complaining, but she was my favorite princess as a kid so that always kinda bugged me.
@@dragonlover439 Same plus the dress looked better BLUE! Cinderella's og dress was white/silver anyways and a part of me will always be irritated it's blue bc of marketing and Mandela effect.
I heard the dress got changed just for marketing, so every princess is able to get their own unique color. But it makes me wonder, I haven't really scene any official pictures with the new princesses included, like Rapunzel, Elsa, and Anna. I wonder if they'll get their own color because Elsa wears blue just like Cinderella? Or maybe the dresses are so different that they don't bother
Heroine Young I think I’ve seen Rapunzel in some merch and her dress is purple so she’s fine. I’ve heard people saying that they probably won’t rope Anna or Elsa in with the other princesses because Frozen was just so popular it’s easier to just market them separately from the Disney Princess line.
i personally think that the princesses should’ve stuck to their original colours. cinderella’s sliver blue dress is iconic and aurora’s blue dress fits more as one person before said, it was worn during all her significant moments, like when she pricked her finger, woke up, hugged her parents and danced with the prince at her welcoming ball. plus, blue has always been a colour to represent royalty and status and not so much anymore, femininity. back to the pink dress, she probably wouldn’t have been allowed to wear what was considered such a masculine colour + i can imagine it’d be near impossible to produce & market a barbie pink dye, especially considering this movie takes place in 15-16th century.
I actually really like Ariel’s pink dress. Although I agree pink and red don’t really work together, I think thematically this dress makes sense. At this point in the movie Ariel is still getting used to being human, she is literally a fish out of water. The pink dress comes across that she doesn’t quite fit in, even the off the shoulder sleeves gives the impression that the dress is too big for her. It works for the scene, but I don’t think it works as her “princess” outfit.
The sea green dress is the best on her .
Because sea green is her signature colour.
I believe I read somewhere that Ariel's pink dress is supposed to be kind of a mash up of the dresses of the princesses that came before her, as it has the sleeves of Snow White's dress, the silhouette/skirt of Cinderella's, and the color of Aurora's pink dress.
i don't think her pink dress is actually her "princess dress"! her time in the castle was really uncomfortable, it definitely wasn't her big reveal time to present the iconic dress. she's wearing something thats probably borrowed, and i think the pink-red color combo is intentional to make it look like she doesnt fit in the palace
im glad we all saw that tumblr post lmao
I agree. But I don't understand why people are saying it's because pink and red don't mix. They do, lol. They're literally in the same color family since pink is created from red and white.
Yes, omg, you put into words what I was thinking too. I always thought her pink dress was kind of not flattering, but in an endearing way, showing that she hasn’t (like you said) fully gotten the hang of being human. The colors that really stand out and make her shine are her teal and purple mermaid colors, because those are her “true” colors.
When she said we associate Snow White with red I was like what?? I associate her with yellow, red, and blue never just one.
edit: it’s so interesting to see how everyone associates things differently for the same thing
Yeah Snow White is mainly yellow and blue
because Cinderella is the blue princess and Belle is the yellow princess. and since Snow White’s story had to do with apples and all etc, it makes sense that red would be her signature colour if she had one.
I associate her with white
same, i usually think of her as yellow and blue mainly, only a tiny bit red.
vMaybe red because they say she has skin as white as snow and lips as red as blood?
Fun fact: Disney had to _invent_ a shade of red for Ariel’s hair. They called it “Ariel Red”
One of my friends has "Ariel Red" hairs
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Woahhh cool!
No it’s called period blood
(It’s a joke pls don’t get mad but that is low key what it looks like 😅)
"red and pink don't mix" I severely disagree
I kinda agree, but I think the pink and red looks fabulous on Ariel
same
I hate pink and red together, but it’s STUNNING on Ariel
yeah, i think only some redheads can pull it off. like i think ginny doesn’t look great in pink, but ariel looks stunning
If you mix red and pink you just get a redder shade of pink...
Random fact: Princess Tiana has the most dress changes of all the princesses
She also had some of the best outfits
And counting the sequels, I think Cinderella has had more. (Child dress, child dress with bow, maid dress, pink ball gown, blue ball gown, wedding dress, pink honeymoon gown, mauve court dress, blue peasant dress, cyan banquet dress, horseback riding dress, gold festival gown, yellow and brown casual dress, second maid dress, torn wedding dress, and the second wedding dress.
And the 89% of the movie she is a frog xD
@@starthelotus3453 HOWWWWWWWWW
Kassandra Flores wdym how
them choosing a pink dress is a bit nonsensical, but given the circumstances that she just showed up to the castle out of no-where, it could be excused as a situation based on whatever the castle had lying around. they still could have made it more marketable but its just my opinion!
It's a cartoon. The castle had nothing laying around bc it was a cartoon. Lol. The 'designers' just messed up a little.
@infinityrose92 True, I just think that it's funny how they're saying maybe it's the only thing the castle had. I personally like the pink dress but I guess theres ppl who don't. Pink was a very popular color in that time.
They gave her the dress because it was the nicest dress they had in her size
Actually redheads and just red in general usually do mix with pink. Pink and red do go well together and thats why redheads tend to look amazing in pink. I hope this makes sense lol.
yes true, but ariels hair shade is not what a natural red heads hair looks yk its a very cartoony red
Completely agree
@@anya-eh6wv ur right
And yet as a redhead I cannot wear pink unless it's a more purpley colour
Especially with pink blush
I always thought the pink represented Ariel being in a foreign place, pink clashing with her colouring in the day and night dress. When she starts to feel more comfortable (out in the town dress) her colour palette starts to come back. When her true identity is revealed and she gets married she is back to her true colours, showing her now feeling at home. In a sense the pink represents ‘a fish out of water’.
I never thought of it like that
Well said! I love your explanation and I can so see it.
Disney: oh yeah we *definitely* did that on purpose
I wish they would just market her "out on the town" dress. Like I get why they don't, but I actually really like that look.
daylite34 Ariel’s dress that she wears to town with Eric and Aurora’s dress when she meets Phillip were so beautiful to me as a kid. Till now I still wanna recreate that look
That dress was really nice
They could glam it up and occasionally wear it in the park ✨
idkwhattocallmeself sameee
I love her "out on the town dress" and it actually looks good with her hair color. Besides, it was what she was wearing for both almost kisses, when Eric realized she was the one who saved him, and when she was outed as a mermaid.
i’ve always wanted ariels “emerging from the water” sparkly dress to be my prom dress 😭
I kinda disagree with the whole "no pink and red" thing. Monochromatic colour schemes can be very effective imo
Yes but her hair is more orange/warm toned red, i think it would suit more if it leaned to magenta/cool toned red
Yes, Pink and Red are a frequent and beautiful color combination in Asian culture and art.
I think monochromatic/analogous colour schemes can be used very effectively. But the problem with Ariel's design is that her red hair is so saturated that placing the pink next to it actually takes away from the vibrancy of the pink.
When she wears that dress it looks like she popped out of a Valentine’s Day card
@@Lili-cc7pz at 1:07 her hair is very cool toned.
I remember when all the disney princesses wore bejeweled dresses in the mid-early 2000s. I also remember when they all wore gold randomly. Does anyone else remember that? Nostalgia. XD
I do!!!! Those were their prettiest gowns!!!!
I do! I still have some Princess stuff with their golden gowns on them and to be honest while I actually love the redesigns, I love the golden gowns just as much. They looked some pretty on them!
@@aesthetic_prince1427 Yeah. For me the new designs just looks so elegant, and naturally as someone who is a sucker detail they don't feel as plain as the old ones even if I liked the old ones too. And bruh, literally just now when I was packing up my childhood stuff for my move I found my old stickerbook and practically half of all my Disney Princess magazines with Princesses in their golden gowns on them.
@infinityrose92 I agree with you! I always liked Aurora's bejeweled dress. I always thought it looked more historically accurate than her regular dress, especially with the cape that came with it.
OMG yes I was thinking the same thing. I also had a lot of princes stuff where the princesses have there gold and bejeweld dresses on. Personally I liked Cinderella's bejeweld dress the most, but maybe that's because I remember that one the best.
I like her "out of the water" glitter dress the best. That pink is a problem for exactly the reason you described.
that's her best dress for real
They couldn’t market that to children though, but I agree
@@rnelan1e very true
Maybe they gave her a more “fitting” dress because it represented her growing into an adult. She’s not the child she was in the beginning.
@@ombrenightcores4153 I like this
That blue dress was EVERYTHING when I was a little girl. It amazed me, captured my every little wish and dream, and mesmerized me. I still hope to find a dress as beautiful as Ariel’s blue sparkling dress one day and get to wear it to a fabulous event.
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I thought it was funny that she seemed to imagine it as sequined because I never imagined it that way.
My mom has that exact dress in her closet when we grew up and I couldn’t wait to grow up so I could wear it. Sadly she got rid of it before I had the chance😭
“Red and pink dont mix”
Pink is literally just light red what-
its literally not
@@anyways1715 yes it is, pink is a lighter shade of red
@@saralosen8963 light red is light red, pink is pink, whats not clicking
@kamill pink is literally just another word for light red... Bruh please go back to school 😔😔
@@bungacow9241 PINK IS LITERALLY A COLOR IN BETWEEN OF RED AND PURPLE ON THE COLOR WHEEL OH MY GOD
"red and pink don't mix."
That's such a controversial statement and now I need a full video on the history of this colors combined.
i'm NGL i debated putting that part in, but it seems like a LOT of people feel this way about it
I think it depends on the complexions and the hair color. ModernGurlz’s argument works when it’s medium complexioned redheads or for cool toned fair women, which Ariel is. Ariel needs a more icy type of pink or hot pink, not a salmon based one like they did in the movie. Even if she’s a cartoon you can tell that the colors clash and the artists didn’t really think about that, a bit alarming considering how good Disney is about color temperature and using colors to tell a story. Color affects a lot more than people think. I learned a lot about it because one of my hobbies is interior decorating and noted that for my friends, they’d ask me for advice because I’d inadvertently pick colors to decorate with the highly flattered them. So no, red and pink do work well, it just needs to be the right shade of pink for the person. For example, you’d never put the peachy pink Ariel has on Cinderella, Tiana, or Aurora because they’re meant to be cool toned. But on Moana, Merida and Pocahontas it would work because they’re warm toned, like the dress. On Moana and Pocahontas it would need to be a pinch brighter and warmer. Same for Merida, the redhead from Brave. Actually that peach pink would be fantastic in Merida, reminiscent of the colors in my picture. For the actress in the new live action the peach pink would work great as she’s very warm toned, her coloring looking like toffees. Or teals and anything reminiscent of the sea as she’s very “autumn” complected. Anything sea oriented would work fabulously with her coloring because her tones echoes a lot of colors found in tropical beaches and oceans. Well most of them, she wouldn’t work well with colors that remind people of the poles or ocean depths or the Northern European countries as the colors of those regions are very cool toned. Sorry for the length! I type fast and love these types of arguments.
For me personally it depends. Sometimes red and pink mix and sometimes they don’t. It all depends on the shade of the two colors.
Didn't Molly Ringwald already perfect the pink/redhead aesthetic in the 80s?
LynnMelo Yes! Seriously though! She did and it was gorgeous!
I think the pink dress was to help accentuate the fact that she wasnt in her element, that she was a, fish out of water
(I will not apologize for the pun)
I agree. Also, one should never apologize for a pun.
I think a green dress makes the most sense, as it matches her tail colour. It ties her story and identity together nicely, without changing too much about her after she’s become human.
I think Ariel wears a pink dress because it represents her feelings: affection for the prince. Remember, colour of clothes in films is an expression of character. And the way the colour doesn't really look good on her may be so because of her not being able to truly express herself (green, the complementary colour for her colour scheme, only appears in scenes where she speaks), meaning Ariel showed how she felt mostly through looks. Pink dress was perfect for reflecting Ariel's affection and showcase her inability to say it.
Normally afection is represented with red
@@unknowgirl8008 red can represent strong affection because of being a vibrant colour. Pink usually represents femininity, something unnatural and some types of love. The kind of pink chosen for this dress represents affection but not immediate love towards Eric, as well as her being a fish out of water (both literally and figuratively). Ariel liked Eric mostly because of his looks when she first saw Eric on the ship. That's why the dress is pink and not red. However, for true love she needs to know him better (which happens further in the movie).
Also red would just look weird with her hair colour and wouldn't match her personality.
@@berrystein9197 okay, now it makes sense
@@unknowgirl8008 actually pink is technically a light red ton
This is a very lovely explenation of her pink dress ! You just made me love more The Little Mermaid !
Lmao I actually really like Ariel's pink dress and I don't think it looks weird with her hair 😂
It does though. Because her hair is still the most vibrant color. With her skin tone a dress of multiple pinks against that striking hair. The hair is going to draw all the attention while everything else including her skin just start to fade together. It's not so much a problem within the narrative of the story. But choosing to market her with that specific dress was a bad choice.
I actually think the pink dress looks good with her red hair. Maybe that's just me, but the pink dress is my favorite. However, I do think that the color doesn't make sense with her color palette. Honestly they should have gone with the seafoam green variation of the pink dress. I don't like the silhouette of her current dress. They should have stuck with the old silhouette with the seafoam green coloring and then left it alone
Yes I agree. In marketing, the seafoam color can also be a nod to her mermaid origins, but also keep the silhoutte of the pink dress of the film.
“Red and pink dont mix” never turned off a video so quick lmao
Well bye 🤗
Look into colour theory then
@@benkenobi8916 as an artist, it depends on how bright the red and pink is, red and pink can work together perfectly if you use it right
I feel like they did that intentionally, Ariel coming to the palace was a complete surprise. They probably just used any dress they had on hand. She’s a literal fish out of water. And the dress color does a really good job at showing that!
agreed, the marketing team is the one who made the mistake
I definitely agree!!! I heard that they purposely made it pink to show how out of place she is (a literal fish out of water)
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Oh I agree. But honestly, why did they need to use that on the merchandise though? She has other dresses and her big transformation moment was when her dad made her a dress with his triton! They should have used that for the marketing instead of a dress that found lying about the castle. If it was inappropriate for that, they should have made it not inappropriate or just used the Kiss the Girl dress for that instead.
kenya taylor exactly,kinda. Well,to be fair-Either Eric has (or previously had) a female relative whom used to own said iconic pink dress that was presumably was hand-tailored for them (or,in this case,as i'm going to imply by my own personal theory-Eric was probably theorized and/or going to be a princess before the time of his birth,but-as he was born male-it was instead probably going to be saved for if Prince Eric's parents were if to bear a spare that turned out to be a girl/princess..or possibly Eric DID have a younger sister at one time, whom was going to be given the dress,but she was presumably married off to another kingdom while Eric was a young adolescent,perhaps) and/or was/had supposedly been inherited to Eric if he had any ladies-in-waiting (Basically,in short-Eric-through inherited means-had this dress from a female relative,such as his mother or female cousin/relative from far away whom fits/is physically close to Ariel's body-type/figure,mind you.)
Or
Eric,via the help and assistance of Grimsby and his Royal (some of them mostly female) staff,had requested to acquire the services of the local tailor/dressmaker to commission a few clothing items for his young Lady-guest,including that same iconic pink dress she wears (not to mention that Casual/townsfolk dress/outfit and/or her pink nightgown of hers,to be honest),upon short notice and thus,they did deliver as follows,mind you again-so.
I hate the green dress tbh. Yes, it compliments her red hair better, but that’s not my Ariel that I know! She looks... weird. It’s hard to explain, but her character seems completely different in the green dress. I’ve always liked the pink dress because it’s youthful, innocent like that of a little girl, and a shade of blush that someone makes when they see their crush. It represents her feels for prince Eric and her innocence, ie how she has to learn how to function as a human like a baby.
Even though I grew up with the pink one I think she looks best in the green
@@jimthecactus7425 same
@@TheFazbearShowtimer Hi fazbear showtimer
I would have put her in sea green.
I honestly like both of them tbh, the main thing that brothers me with the green is how there are two princess with pinks dresses which takes away the originality of both
I've actually modeled pallets after hers when I did colour designing lmao I think it looks amazing. Pastel pink is known to go with everything idk what you're saying man :')
I read that the reason Ariel's dress is green because of marketing. Back then, Aurora was already the "pink" princess and Disney wanted to capitalize on princesses in different colors. That's why you sometimes see Princess Jasmine in a purple outfit even though she usually wears teal. But now since there are more members in the princess lineup, you can see more than 1 princess wearing the same color.
I read that's why they cancelled Jane Porters Coronation to become an official Disney Princess, because her main dress is yellow, like Belle's, plus both having brown hair
@@goodnight2931 I guess main reason why Jane, Meg & Esmeralda aren't in the lineup is - those films were more marketed at boys, not girls. Especially Tarzan & Hercules, and back in the day princess stuff was aimed at little girls who just scream 'daddy buy me, buy me this & this I wanna be like Aurora!'
@@NenadlPopovic Yes that may be a small reason, though not entirely a true reason, Aladdin was like that for example. But the main reason is because they didn't do as good in the box office as Disney wanted them to. But I read Jane Porter was actually in the line up for a coronation, however was cancelled for the reasons I gave. She's the only one I read this about.
I really would like if they had a coronation for all characters that should be a Disney Princess to make them official ones too, there's so many that should, but I know it will never happen now
@@goodnight2931 well Aladdin became a prince + there was already a princess within the movie, sultan too. Its like Cinderella gender-bend. But Jane, Esmeralda & Meg didn't have any connections to royalty. Mulan joined cuz of 'heroic act' and she is the only one without birth or marriage in the line. I think the most unfair ones are Elowny from Black Cauldron & Kida from Atlantis, which were actually princeses in their films. But as you mentioned, their movies are long forgotten - so if a girl didnt bring enough cash - Disney stops merchandising her.
@@NenadlPopovic No, I was using Aladdin as an example for you saying Jane, Meg & Esmeralda weren't in the line up was because their movies were marketed towards boys, not because Aladdin already had a princess & sultan in the movie. Also Esmeralda was part of the official line up too but also got cancelled. Same with Tinkerbell
Mulan isn't the only official princess to not be born or married to a royal. Pocahontas & Moana are both daughters of a chief. They don't have to be royalty to be part of the official Disney franchise. There's actually a big list of reasons for characters to be able to become an official Disney princess & just as many reasons why they don't become one or are cancelled/removed from it. However, Disney only follow it when it suits them. The biggest reason being money earned
I so agree about Eilonwy & Kida, & a few others
I never realized how many dresses Ariel had. Damn.
Also, never considered princess clothing at all, but now that i'm thinking about it, it made me realize something...
When Ariel got her legs, why did her seashell bra just fall off? She got to the surface stark naked. So... Why did her bra fall off??
she’s still wearing her seashell bra when she first becomes human though?
@@sparrowsong0 I just rwatched it on Disney Plus.
She does have her seashells on during the rise and on the surface.
I just remembered it differently for some reason. I could've sworn they had all the camera angles from neck up or with "conveniently located hair" to cover the important bits. I could've sworn she was naked.
Oh well.
@@TheDrexxus they could have changed it when they added it to disney plus?
@@shadowartist101 I doubt it. Probably just the Mandela Effect at work. I can pretty vividly remember her being topless, but all evidence points to that not being the case. I think my brain is just playing tricks on me.
@@TheDrexxus possibly
but there’s also the fact that she was wearing someone else’s clothes so of course it wouldn’t be her colour pallet. and maybe the person really liked pink so that’s why the nightgown was pink too
I honestly love the green dress more than pink
Same, It also reminds you of the whole mermaid thing.
I didn’t realize her dress changed, but looking at it I do prefer the color. The minty green is a pretty color and it looks great against the color of her hair
I agree! It's just so striking.. the little mermaid was my favorite film as a kid and still is top 5 fav Disney films but that pink dress never made sense to me. It just looked so blah.
Green and red (her hair) are complementary colors so overall it just looks better
Me too, I also love the color green in general and it’s great to see that type of green dress. I remember when I was in school going to a dance I tried looking for a pretty green dress but had trouble finding one. It was my favorite color, so yeah, love the new dress.
ariel was my favorite disney princess as a kid and i was OBSESSED with her wardrobe, i used to be convinced my wedding dress would look exactly like hers lmao. i’m still a huge fan of the pink dress, i love the silhouette and i think pink is a really fun/unique color choice for ariel
"Red and Pink Don't Mix"
Valentine's Day: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?
(I do agree, tho, blue-green would have looked so much better on Ariel had they used it from the start)
It would also call back to her being from the sea really well, similar to how her tail is green
thats actually the big reasons of why i hate valentines day lol
i've always loved the pink dress since imo pink is the most youthful, child-like "girly" color and i just thought it was adorable and fit her vibe so well. however, i can see where youre coming from when you say it makes her washed out and i, too, think her best fit is the blue dress.
to be honest, i think the pink clashes more with her previous character designs than her hair. i like the red and pink together, and even though a lot of people disagree with that combo, i think people would be more accepting if ariel had a more feminine color scheme like many of her sisters. between her purple seashells (which, as you mentioned, are associated with villains) and a tail so green she could be mistaken for a crocodile, the pink really does seem to come straight out of nowhere.
however, considering the little mermaid kicked off the disney renaissance and considering where disney's animation devision weas BEFORE the little mermaid... yeah, i wont compare her to anyone who came after 😂 they did a good enough job
@infinityrose92 blue is also their peasant dress colour aside from Cinderella, and even then, it could be considered symbolic of her secret home life. So for the older films, they wanted anything not blue for the fancy reveal.
I will never understand why they don't market her in the black and blue dress. She wears it in her most iconic scene and she looks great in it.
I think it’s because she’d look plain next the other princesses. The current design was clearly made with The Disney Princesses franchise in mind, so they dressed her to fit the group aesthetic which leans heavy on the ball gowns at least for the white princess characters (+ Tiana). The new dress is a similar level of fancy, and I suspect the switch from pink to sea foam is to differentiate the dress more from Aurora’s. Having each princess in a different color looks better from a merchandising perspective in the Disney Stores and theme park gift shops where these dresses are sold.
@@xqueenfrostine Pocahontas has a completely different design than everone else. And sometimes they show her with the other princesses with a tail. So, I'm not sure that logic holds up.
Well that dress seems to be too simple and peasant, her pink dress is more official
As a redhead myself, I can say that it really depends on the colour pink that is worn.
Fr i liked her pink nightgown
Although Arial isn't the first princess, the success of her movie and following princess movies established the Disney Princess Brand. The Little Mermaid launched the Disney Renaissance. When designing Arial, they may no have forseen branding consequences. The princess lineup is now considered when designing the modern princesses.
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Oh wait, I was talking about a typeface not a mermaid 😂 thanks @@redscreen2530
I actually think red and pink look really nice together. It's sort of one of these old fashioned concepts like not wearing black with brown, if you ask me
Tbh I love her green dress, her shocking red hair and lagoon green dress don’t clash, green and red are complimentary colours, so they make each other stand out.