let's revisit the fashion in the aladdin remake | fashion analysis
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- here’s why the costumes in aladdin were bad and ugly
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Okay to give a bit of context on the weird split sleeves/under-boob dresses, that is actually a common motif seen in 18th-19th century Ottoman Turkish dresses for royal women, which this remake sort of set Aladdin in (Ottoman-ruled port-city). They just interpreted it in a really weird way, especially the under-bust designs. Also, her marketplace dupatta was draped in such a bizarre way, like they were going for a hijab, but didn’t want to actually look like a real one.
I personally think they did a good job on silhouettes, you can see they pulled from Arab Gulf henna dresses, Moroccan takchitas and Tunisian tabdilas, which was a nice nod to cultural accuracies. As for the coin dress, gold coins are very prominent in Arab gulf jewelry and dress (emphasis on jewelry), but again-the execution was just off.
Thank you for this input! I was coming from a South Asian perspective so this is really illuminating. And yeah I think a lot of the discrepancies came down to nobody from the regions being consulted for the costuming. I could sometimes recognize elements that they were going for, but it was always in a distorted and exotified lens so the looks came out looking like that :/
@@cherrybepsi Of course, I'm just glad I found a video that critiqued the costumes not because "it's not the same as the cartoon", but because there was an obvious culture that the creators were trying to evoke but did so in a way that was displeasing to the eye and mildly offensive. I will applaud this movie though-if it weren't for the subpar costume design, I wouldn't have gotten into studying and following traditional Arab and South Asian fashion. That being said, the creators had SO MUCH to pull from, but decided not to for some reason. (Oh wait, we know why 🙎🏼♂️🙎🏼♂️🙎🏼♂️)
@@kittycat1887 they fuckin made a fairy tale to be tailored in real life hence the "live action" part and why they need to tie it to that culture even down to the costumes ya wee bin bag of a brain
@@kittycat1887 in the 1000 nights book the clothes were realistic even if the events were not
@@kittycat1887 in the 1000 nights book the clothes were realistic even if the events were not
Kung Fu Panda did a better job of researching clothing of the culture it was portraying and those were movies about anthropomorphic cartoon animals!
if only this movie could even hope to measure up to the Masterpiece that is kung fu panda
@@cherrybepsi Tigress' clothing alone surpasses anything seen here. It felt like they wanted it to seem *exotic* while desperately trying to make her not appear Muslim in any authentic away for fear of alienating the White audience.
@@yannsteunou-murray9401 OMG FRRR
@@stupidass69420 1000th nights is book that was compiled in Arabia in islamic Golden age French guy did not invent it
No but you're so right how have I never realised this
so funny that they literally made historical european style clothing with "middle eastern/indian flare" like how tf did they manage to make this movie so white!! you could find better costume designs from a high schooler with access to pinterest and a pack of crayola coloured pencils
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Your burn was the most glorious burns I have ever read in my life. You deserve a whole jar of cookie 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪
The fact that it looks more European with Middle Eastern or Arabic flair leans even more into the white washing of the story and culture overall like the actual cultural outfits are so pretty
I'm not sure it really looks European either tbh. Asside from the sort of renfaire design, I couldn't match this to a region or time at least.
@@SarahJareth true
But can I just complain for a moment about how they wanted her to look "appropriate" for a teenager but they have her in these insane push up bras that just look uncomfortable.
okay yes such a good point! it's SO weird and doesn't even look cute so what was the point 😐
Yeah like, honestly her regular crop top and pants from the animated movie could have looked much more " appropriate" with a few more historically accurate modifications.
Most of her dresses look like they took a bunch of old English silhouettes, added bright colors and some dangly gold and jewels and called it a day. The structured bodices are SO western european. It's almost impressive how far they missed the mark. Also, this whole issue kind of reminds me of how Disney promoted the Mulan remake as being more accurate and hyped up that all the actors were chinese (which is kind of like the bare minimum but ok), but then NONE of the movie's 4 screenwriters were asian, and the director was a white woman, and so the story was a mess (like their complete misunderstanding of the concept of qi). Disney seems to be on this kick lately of trying to portray themselves as a progressive company that values representation and cultural accuracy, but then behind the scenes it's the exact same white-dominated space it's always been. Which isn't surprising but like. Ugh.
The costume designer was a white woman too if I remember correctly
Please don't say asian as if it is an ethnic group
I looked more Turkish to me. Like Turkey mixed with Western Europe
@@SarahJareth Correct. They talked about how she spent weeks "immersing herself in the culture" when they could have just, idk, gotten an actual Chinese costume designer with a specialty in historical dress. There wouldn't be a shortage.
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl would East Asian be a better term?
Let's be honest here, Disney's main goal with costume design is to appeal to little girls who will be buying Jasmine dolls and costumes. Hence, the gaudy colors, mismatched plastic looking jewelery, and vaguely European looking designs. If it looks too culturally accurate, it won't stand out as an obvious "Jasmine costume" and scare away the white parents. Not to mention Disney doesn't want to get in trouble with profiting off of cultural appropriation, so they make sure nothing looks too authentic. Basically, Disney doesn't care about accuracy they care about making money.
I mean, none of the european dresses are accurate either so, yeah, obviously the disney princesses are a brand and they need to make the costumes easily recognisable
Yeah people are expecting a creative labor of love when this is a dead eyed capitalist company mega production
I also thought looking at it about how they want a princess performer at the parks to be clearly in costume, loud loud costume - and the movie costumes can’t be TOO good because they’ll be stuffing a bunch of twenty year old park cast into knockoff versions for the next twenty years. I feel like the theme park was at the front of their minds since theme park animated Jasmine went through so many changes and was basically wearing a turtleneck since 2016
All business's wont to make money.
@@nessyness5447 So, they messed up poc outfits too
As a turkish person, some of her outfits really reminded me a lot of ottoman era royal clothing but like...in a way that made me feel like they were going for the ottoman era outfit but failed? People often assume that turkish ppl are arab just because we're middle eastern and muslim so I wouldn't be too surprised if that was really what they were going for. Great video btw!
They looked like the cheap ottoman costumes sold in US costume stores
i lost it when u zoomed in on the white guy's face after "south indian" 😭
that man is just out here, no PR, no interview notes, just blurting out the first thing that comes to his mind about brown people
I'm not a historical fashion expert or anything but with the bodice/corset pieces it feels like the costume designer took historical European bodice and then added funky colors and lines and shit to make it Middle Eastern TM
This is something that really irks me about Disney- they have so much money and influence, and can access pretty much any amount of resources and talent they could possibly want or need to make really great movies. And yet despite being able to do basically anything, they seem to half-ass everything they make these days, either out of laziness or fear that the end product isn't as "marketable" as possible. It's like watching someone gain access to a giant warehouse full of every LEGO piece ever, but all they do is build a car using all the same bricks and no wheels.
But on a positive note, I have to say I love your take on this, even though I myself am not well-versed in fashion/costume design as a whole. I love hearing other people talk about something they're passionate about.
Yeah I feel you, everything they make is just so processed and dry :/ Also thank you so much! I appreciate it 💖
What irks me about jasmine’s design, and the whole movie, both the live action, and animation, is that they are designed in a way to seem like Arab, desi, and eastern people’s cultures are exactly the same. Each culture is so vast, and interesting yet the Disney producers didn’t even bother to research properly, and choose a main culture to inspire from. I understand if they wanted to showcase all these cultures, and adapt it into this fictional setting, but even trying to adapt all of them was a failure to the production. Jasmine being dressed as a mix of a Californian girl screams westernization, and her being inspired by a belly dancing outfit is so disgustingly fetishy. You could have dressed her in clothing fitting the Abbasid or ottoman periods, maybe even a traditional indian clothing of the same time period but noooooo. Disney failed us all, and the two representations prove their lack, and want to actually research or showcase proper culture.
Tbh if they were accurate, it probably would have flopped
I'm sure they did the best they could with the costume designs and the costumes look amazing.
@@Wduck_ no😥
@@Ackermanicure You are all complaining to much about how her dresses should look they put a lot of hard work into making thoughs dresses.
@@Wduck_ ok and? Olivia, the whole point flew right over your head.
i feel like a lot of ppl attack this movie for casting an indian actress (even though they don’t realize jasmine’s ethnicity is literally a mix up of what white men thought brown people were like) so i like how you pointed out how the actress was whitepassing as well, and the outfits were just... ugh.
also about the wedding: if they were trying to do an indian wedding... bb you need like the whole city there stuffing food you don’t even know about into your mouth 😭 and i’ve never seen a couple kiss in a wedding... or at all (modern bollywood movies have physical touch but my parents are still anti pda so)
People from much of Middle East and North Africa can range from fair skined to dark brown the actresses would not be out of place in Egypt for example
Kissing is very common in Bollywood now. They don’t even shy away from showing sex scenes in Hindi web series.
@@cricket_lover494 idk what your point is, are you saying real life and movies are same? They mentioned irl parents are against pda and thats true like most you can do is hold hands and even then some old grandma will think its pda. So wtf sex scenes in movies gotta do w real life
@@phoenixgray9231 Aree bhai…he mentioned in today’s Bollywood movie u might see some pda & all. So I am just correcting him that pda is 90s thing in today’s era kissing & sex scenes r very common in Bollywood. Simple
I honestly disagree with the whole white passing thing. She may be half indian but she is still of indian descent. Just because her skin is lighter dosent make her white passing. Just google "north indian women" and she looks like she would fit right in. Or like how another commenter said she would fit in in Egypt. Her name yes, is easy to pronounce and is very white-washed unfortunately but she is not white by any physical means. I feel that the white knight media has lost the narrative on how colourful asian skin can be. I mean just look at my dp, I'm Indian without an ounce of Caucasian blood in me. Im starting to believe that people wont be happy unless a POC is casted the exact way they picture them to be with the colour of the skin that is dark enough to fit the stereotype and is of "pure" descent despite the years of intercultural marriage and mingling due to colonisation and another whole can of worms. Which is ironic with how they are battling against "stereotypes and colourism" Just because she is half indian dosent make her invalid and "white" thats just erasing half her heritage. And its like saying that unless you are of pure descent and dark or yellow enough you can never act as a POC because you are "white passing".
This is the first time I'm seeing these costumes, never watched for reasons. Disney wants to be more cultural in these live action movies yet still having all white people behind the screen. Sigh
literally like just trying to be diverse for Woke points and nothin else
If they’re gonna actually make an attempt and spend all this money, I have no clue why they wouldn’t bring in people part of this community to green light the details
I hated those costumes so much in Aladdin! Ugh!
But hey, don't hate on 90s Bollywood clothes. That bright green thing Kajol wears in Dilwale Dulhania Lejaenge is a classic now. Lol
i wasn't hatinggg i'm just saying 🙈
PLS DO NOT START ON KAJOL’S FASHION SENSE IT IS BEYOND ATROCIOUS
@@itsktyyu it's "china" but not the china we know
@@itsktyyu I didn't know China has jjins and sand dunes.
@@aphrodite4419 calm down , and its not kajols fashion sense lol, its the costume designers. And honestly, that dress looked so pretty and i love the movie too a classic
I can get as a fantasy story not really wanting a specific historical point and instead more the atmosphere- but understanding of color and shape of garments is important. I really don’t get the continued choice of a bodice, it didn’t fit at all and def was more ‘basic ren faire’ mixed with like coachella, which is a shame cause they had such a broad area and timeframe they could have pulled from.
This is exactly how I feel about the 'Mulan' live action costumes. I haven't seen the movie, never will for ideological/political reasons, but I've seen pictures. What is it about these non-Asian costume designers who think that Asians like to wear loud mismatched colours with no sense of beauty or cohesion?
That's exactly what they think I guess
It honestly never occurred to me that Jasmine could be from India, I always thought Persia or something, but I'm Slavic, so no expert whatsoever. What irritates me a lot is that either of those cultures have incredibly rich beautiful clothes and the designers translated all of that into Halloween costumes. Like, why? All of that gorgeous heritage wasted on cheap gold coin trims. Ugh!
Well Aladdin has a weird mash of different cultures in like one kingdom which is weird so many may think that Jasmine’s mother came from a different country we just don’t know which one because Disney thinks all “oriental” cultures are the same or sth which makes sense kinda funny to think that they got more than 1 culture to choose from yet still failed at being cultural LMAO. It seems that they intended for Jasmine’s mom to be uhh from a fictional country loosely based off India in the movie?
I always thought she was Indian when I was younger
The funny thing is that a lot of Indians grew up thinking Aladdin was an Indian-set movie (including me), and apparently a lot of Middle Easterners thought it was set in the Middle East. They really mixed up the cultures lol
@@TabooTalz SAME
@@TabooTalz Uh no. There is an old black & white Indian film from Tamil Nadu and the costumes didn't look Indian. May be there is an Indian interpretation of the story to suit Indian audiences (just like how there are Indian movies based on William Shakespeare's works. But as Indian I always saw it as Arab or Persian.
Welllll. Jasmine is a PRINCESS! She's royalty and here she is wearing pieces I'd find on a discount rack at a hinterland shop that's 10 years old and probably stained in some spots
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Disney wants so badly to erase the image they have of being culturally ignorant/insensitive, yet can't even get visual aspects-the CLOTHES right. Like, it would really kill them to at least have a costume designer that knows what they're doing 🤦♀️
Bajirao Mastani is one of my favourite period pieces because of the HUGE scale it's made in, and I seriously had no idea that Aladdin had such a huge budget and still did not look as grandiose as Bajirao! (or even half of it really) I liked Aladdin just as a fun watch but now I'm actually kinda frustrated at how less they cared about actually getting things right 🤧
I loved that movie 🎥 but I don’t know if it was accurate to history
tho like honestly, I wonder if that pink dress and the others had lines / stripes on them because they saw the geometric architecture, like in mosques, and was trying to reference that? I'm honestly befuddled. She looks like air traffic map.... :t
AIR TRAFFIC MAP 😭
11:15 "random white guy i found on google" LMAOOO
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DIED at this part
The pink and orange gave me major Padma and Parvati Patil vibes, lol.
Ughhh pls don’t get me started on that fail of costume choice. No seriously, would it kill people to give ACTUAL nice representation of Indian clothes. What’s even better is that they didn’t even have to go that route: both sisters wore ‘robes’ in the books, not a sad excuse for a whatever-the-heck-that-was they wore in the movies
@@aphrodite4419 exactly! Representation at its WORST. Also, I couldn't help but notice your Lore Olympus dp ❤
@@ad6252 hehe thanks! Although, to be perfectly honest with you, I haven’t really watched it......I just really liked the goddess and god designs 😄
@@aphrodite4419 Ew
I haven't watched this movie because I honestly don't care enough about it to do so but it's SO interesting you bring up how it's supposed to be 8th or 9th century - in the magic carpet sequence (in the original) they fly through Egypt, where the Sphinx is being built (around 2500 BC), through Ancient Greece, past what we can presume to be buildings from around 450 BC, and then to what LOOKS like the Forbidden City in China, built in the 15th Century. Really heightens that vibe of the Orient (in this case, the Orient being the mystical world of Agrabah, which exists in but irrelative to our world) being something unchanging, intemporal, and never progressing
oh wow so just a true hodgepodge of vaguely "eastern" cultures huh 😩
I mean, those were Disney Easter Eggs meant, I think, as a joke
As a Spanish European girl who has watched a ton of Bollywood films and knows HOW beautiful traditional clothing can be, I was shocked to see how ugly they where, specially if you have movies like Padmaavat, Ram Leela, Bajirao Mastani...like come on, it's literally on UA-cam, it feels like always, just a bunch of money hungry people that don't care, just sad.
A little question, does anybody know books or places that have information on how are sarees made and different types of traditional costumes, cause I'd love to learn more✨✨
Loved the vid btw😂
I guess your fan of Sanjay Leela Bhansali 😂
@@akkkkk813 Quite a fan yes😂😂
And I also found the flesh tone part of the aqua outfit was awkward. Either show her stomach or don’t. There are some middle eastern/Indian outfits that show the stomach, even saris show a small amount of stomach.
I would have gone for something more based on the cartoon outfit. Maybe change the pants for a floor length skirt, make the crop top with 3/4 sleeves and a more rectangular shape, add a veil. And add a more luxurious print instead of olain aquamarine color..or more ornaments and jewelry . There are some " accurate" cosplays and fanart designs that look so much better while at the same time looking more like the cartoon jasmine.
@@nessyness5447 the way her top was styled looks more like a corset, not like a bra or a tube top.
@@KaeMcSpadden i meant the cartoon top
@@nessyness5447 I know. I was saying the live action version here looks too much like a corset. I have seen cosplays that are more culturally or historically accurate and are still close to the original character design.
@@KaeMcSpadden that was my point, that i would have gone for something more along the lines of what those cosplayers do
YES OMG I hated the pink dress IDK what made them think it looked good, it doesn't in look nice in any cultural style tbh so did most of them but that one oh it was just so terrible
also I feel like majority of the costume issues (in regards to the weird color blocks/layers) could be solved if they could've made it a translucent layer like I haven't really seen desi style clothes where the skirt parts are like color blocked its usually one and they have pretty patterns and if there are multiple colors it's like a fade or there are like chiffon layers or something in another color
true! it was missing the georgette fabric that really makes a desi Look
Omg that white wedding dress was so wrong! In most Indian cultures, white is the colour worn at funerals, so it's almost never worn by brides and grooms at their own fucking wedding. It's considered really ominous and disrespectful. And orange and green is not a "South Indian colour combination" (🤦♀️), but they're colours of the Indian national flag (more specifically, saffron and green)
I wish white people stopped pretending they know everything about cultures they clearly don't have any idea about and then parade that ignorance in front of the entire world. And I hate how that's normalised. I appreciate trying to be inclusive and trying to represent other cultures, but this is not representation... it's appropriation
Edit: I think the reason why the costumes look so 90's is that Bollywood movies from that decade are really popular overseas for some reason. Before meeting me, all of my friends from overseas thought 90's and 80's Bollywood depicted real life in India. And they love those movies, for some reason. They don't think they're cringey, they think they're "exotic". In fact, the more cringey, the better it is. Those friends now know how horribly mistaken they were about life in India from watching those movies, but they still love them because they see them as "musicals" (since the characters are always singing and dancing at the drop of a hat.) They don't see the movies like we do, but their interpretation is different, and a lot of it is just the "exotic" factor. They haven't watched any modern Bollywood movie whatsoever, and those old movies are what they think are still made in India. I'm guessing the white people who made this movie also watched those old movies as kids and went, "well, now we know exactly what Indian customs are like", never consulted an actual Indian, have never been to India, the only picture of India they've seen is that of the Taj Mahal, the only "Indian" food they've had is the British version of chicken tikka masala (made with curry powder and not actual spices) and then they made this facepalm of a movie. I haven't watched the movie myself, but I really hope none of the characters said "namastay" while actually making the handsign of namaste at the same time. That's something white people love to do (and it's hilarious)
Girl , Indians have different religions
Indian Christian girls do wear white for weddings , we wear black for funerals but I agree that she should have worn like a golden colour or something, red is predominantly worn by Hindu women , but jasmine isn’t Hindu
@@marytc2714 I know, because I'm an Indian myself, and i already mentioned your point about Christian weddings, but Jasmine is clearly not Christian. It's not exactly specified which religion Jasmine is from. She might be Muslim, but it's not sure. The setting seems to be a kind of mixture of Islam, Sikhism and Hinduism, and white is a very uncommon colour for all those religions to have for their wedding dresses
Wait…. This movie was base on India? Cause it wasn’t made obvious in this live action.
Actually Hindu brides in some culture do wear white sarees. There are tons of cultures within Hindu community. Having said that, this movie is based on arabic culture. Your argument on white wedding dress doesn't hold true to me.
I saw a Tamil bride being married in a saffron and green wedding sari, where in India would people actually wear something like that though? please help me figure out, I'm black.
I legitimately bonded with my friends bc we were all bitching about the costumes from aladdin. Every time we found pictures of a new costume the group chat would just rage.
"i didn't have patience to photoshop a buzzfeed liticle" KFLJKFLDSGDS HOW ARE YOU SO FUNNY FDKLSDFKLS
If sanjay leela bhansali would have done the costumes and set design, he would have won an Oscar or at least been nominated for it, they took a white dude who had never done this before. every movie by SLB regardless of the story has beautiful costumes and set design in the movie is always on point. This movie makes me so effing angry
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i agree with you 1000000000000%%%%%%% Sanijay wouldve done a much better job
As a university costume design student it's awful to see how badly this costuming was done. Honestly you've enlightened me to alot of errors i didn't originally notice and in the future I want to make sure I'm never this kind of costume designer. Maybe they should actually hire a bollywood designer or at least have these designers as consultants
I'll give my small take on the Aladdin's hair. Basically when you're doing VFX, hair will be the hardest part to key out the green screen especially if it's curly hair. In Aladdin, Abu is almost always on Aladdin's shoulders hence why his hair is stiff so that it is easier for the VFX artists (roto artist/compositing artist specifically) to mask out his hair.
not a problem, just hire a real little monkey
@@cherrybepsi but but that's animal cruelty
Right because she’s actually serious about hiring a live monkey-
@@whateverdude2139 it's jokes y'all calm down 💀
Imma be real. She ain't strike me as white passing. She's very clearly a brown woman. A light skinned brown woman, but brown nonetheless. But this was a really interesting take.
Arab are literally considered white in usa passport we aren't brown my god😔
Just what I thought . Naomi Scott is British but her skin tone isn't really white. Also not all Arabs and south Asians are brown, we do have people with lighter skin colour.
@@lmao5070 we have Brown people as well as people with lighter colour.
arab is an ethnicity, not a race. you can see black and white arabs coexisting.
I'm so honored to be here for Jared, 19's UA-cam directorial debut
Imagine having the obscene amount of money, influence, and reach that Disney has, deciding to make a live action remake of one of the few Disney Princess Movies(TM) that is set in a non-European inspired setting with one of the few princesses of colour, with the ability through modern technology to be able to do previously unprecedented depths of research and find multitudes of incredible creatives, historians, sociologists etc. Who actually come from, have spent their entire life surrounded by, and spent their careers immersed in the exact cultures you want to draw from for your movie, and you... Don't. Aside from just how visually displeasing the costumes are, this movie was such a fantastic opportunity to give a huge platform to SWANASA creators that was just... Wasted. Love or hate Disney (and boy do I have some Opinions about Disney but that's not the point), it's impossible to deny their huge influence in pop culture, and they could be doing so much amazing stuff with it! But instead. This.
That's my main thing! Like y'all have the budget and the resources to make something look GOOD, not even "historically accurate" but just not actively ugly, and this is what they have us 💀
Analyzing the costumes from this movie and the world building they explicitly stated and implied is something I've been talking about since the movie came out. I've been researching traditional West Asian clothing and heard from people who are actually studying such things and I find it notable you mentioned that the guys customes were alright because from what I've seen the guy costumes (both main and background) where the most accurate from the film. Where the ball was dropped so much it may not as well even been held was with the female costumes. I believe to try and at least make sense of the messy cultural mashup that the animated Aladdin was they to explain it away by changing Agrabah to a port city thus being influenced by multiple cultures and that Jasmine's mom came from a South Asian inspired kingdom thus why she dresses so different than the rest of Agrabah. However, as you pointed out this fails on so many levels. Jasmine's outfits take very loose inspiration from South Asian clothing yet for some reason corests/structured bodices and ballgowns are involved in four of her looks. When I first saw that pink dress with the coins I thought perhaps it could be explained as they're dressing her up in such a way to appeal to the European inspired Prince but then I learned it was done for the sake of showing how constrained Jasmine feels as a Princess and it's like...but no. Then there's the background female costumes and Agrabah being a port city now. I did like seeing a number of different cultures represented through the clothing such as Tajik hats, Phulkari Dupattas, Balochi kameez, and others I can't remember off the top of my head but my issue was...it was all just thrown together. I swear at one point I saw one random woman go by in an outfit with all of these combined and while it looked nice and isn't necessarily impossible, it seemed like an odd decision for a movie where they were talking about trying to be more culturally accurate. Furthermore, the excuse of the port city bothers me because yes in a place like that it's only natural that people from all around travel and live there and it's only natural that some kind of cultural diffusion would occur but I feel like a port city would still have it's own distinct identity with other influences that enrichen that but also not just become a mashup of everything. Sorry this is so long but I just have a lot of feelings about the choices made under the guise of being more culturally and historically accurate.
omg don't apologize at all!! this was super interesting to read and i understand where you're coming from completely. they were really trying to double dip by being lazy with the designs AND somehow claiming they were being "more faithful" to the cultural/historical context 🙄
I am from Alexanderia a massive port of Mediterranean and my city is not more multi culture than reast of Egypt
I'm so glad you pointed out how fucking cheap this movie looked because I've been pissed about it since it dropped. They could fund part of a rocket launch with that budget and somehow the whole cast looks like they tumbled out of a party city
Fr woulda been better spent on the costumes, sets and ambiance instead of that weird ass editing
not the random white guy u found on google i really thought he was a producer or sth until i read the caption 💀
the bajirao mastani vs aladdin comparisons 😭 not just in costumes but the sets, the cgi, the directing, even the bloody filter in bajirao mastani looks even more expensive than aladdin, a movie from one of the biggest entertainment companies in hollywood. also jasmine's outfits feels like if the met gala did a south asian theme and the b-list celebrities show up in these
What you see as medieval princess dress was actually middle eastern, used in iran and lebanon. It's kinda sad that people see it as european and not recognise it as middle eastern.
Yes dude I dont know why she's showing pictures of indian clothes
Arab and Persian and turks wore dresses like Europeans (the royal families)
Jasmin wasnt spouse to be indian the story is arab/Persian wich shahrazad was telling to shahraian in the 1001 nights 🤷♂️
@@lmao5070 it's Shahriar😅 1001 nights is originally a Persian story later taken by Arab authors and then western authors who each added their own stories to this series and it depends on the time era and I don't know much about other countries but Iran started wearing western clothing for loyalties like around 160 years ago started by a Qajarid princess and it wasn't even worn by all of the loyalties until the Pahlavi dynasty who wore western clothings alot(even tho not all) and it was the last dynasty of Iran before the Islamic Republic came and this happened in less than a century. I'm pretty sure Alladin's story line doesn't match this it should be closer to Islamic golden age rather than when middle East started wearing western clothing
@@lo-fiaesthetic5382 you mean the Islamic golden age when Baghdad was the capital of the Islamic world ? I'm pretty sure even back then nobody was wearing Indian clothes.
I mean nobody was even wearing a niqab back then because people weren't that conservative but I'm pretty sure that the fashion in the Islamic golden age was a see through dress. You can see harem painting if you want
@@lmao5070 yes that's the time Period I'm talking about, I was talking about Western clothing Indian clothing was never worn in middle East. Adding Indian culture to the movie was Disney's mistake💀
@@lo-fiaesthetic5382 yeah sorry I'm drunk I didnt understand a think of what you said
imagine claiming to have "researched" different weddings in south asian cultures and not knowing French kissing in front of (especially) family members is considered taboo and shameful....
that south indian line took me out lmaoooo. the fashion takes really sound like you know what you are talking about, great work
hehe ty 💞
To me the real problem with this costumes is that they look like exactly like costumes and not actual clothes that someone would wear outside a stage 😐 so plasticky and fake
holy shit i never saw this movie but wow... wow... i never realised jasmine's costumes were that bad... also i love fashion critique... thank you for this meal💗
of course 😌💕
I would die for Bajirao Mastani outfits
at the start of the video i thought" hey i didnt think her clothes were THAT bad" and thn i realised all of her gowns look exactly the same especially with the corset thing thats goin on and they are all just different colors and accessories
I spent the whole movie hating everything else about it so didn’t even realise how crap the costumes looked
I think they got confused between Indian and Arab cultures. Arab or middle eastern dress is not this much colourful I think. Even if they are trying to portray Indian Muslim dress, still it didn't has the same colours as in the movie.some of the turbans look like Sikh turbans from India - of course very different from Arab style.
As a Syrian (with several Arab and south Asian friends): THANK YOU. Couldn't agree more
Thank you so much!! I didn’t like them but didn’t have any of the knowledge to explain why so I just kept my mouth shut. Also im not brown so I just sat there and ate my food
LMAO yea these did not look cute to anyone idk what they thought they were doing 😩
Jasmine outfits look as cute costumes you could wear to a costume party, colorful, funny and cheap. They don't really look like the kind of outfit you expect on a big budget film. Any of the photos of other outfits you put in the video are like a thousand times more beautiful that the ones in the film.
Out of topic but I didn't like the fact that Jasmine was supposed to have this big gorgeous eyes but they casted Naomi, you CAN find women that look like the princesses, the same happened with Cinderella, Aurora and Belle, I'm sorry it's my opinion and i just think that Disney wants actors with some ''name'' so it catches but I would rather see an unknown actor that actually looks the part, same thing with Jafar in the cartoon he's older and scarier, P.S. I get why they would go with colorful outfits so it would be more eye catching...but like it's true they want to be more diverse but keep white people to do ''research'' on things they don't get.
Jafar was cool, but he just wasn’t the Jafar I knew. Jasmine I didn’t like much either.
Same cindrella was still fine but belle was the worst. She was so tiff with no expression at all. Belle we imagine supposed to wide eyed smart girl with big personality.
@@kanikagaral7637 Emma Watson was not the greatest choice in my opinion. I’m not really a fan of her line delivery, and besides......she doesn’t even LOOK like belle....
@@aphrodite4419 exactly my point
@@aphrodite4419 I really feel like they picked her because Hermione and books so they thought Belle wasn’t that much of a stretch. But Belle is much softer in personality than Hermione, not weaker but sweeter which Emma unfortunately couldn’t capture as well
Putting the costumes and sets of Bajirao Mastani and Alladin side by side makes Alladin looks so cheap and unclassy. I understand that they wanted a more colorful palette but there are ways to make that look better than that!
such a great video!! i knew those costumes looked off to me but couldn't articulate why. also WOW those bollywood costumes
yesss any bollywood movie directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali is gonna bring the Lewks. the plot is another story.....but great gowns. beautiful gowns.
I love this roast ❤️ it’s a good mix of educational and savage 🥰 I can feel your channel is about to blow up ❤️❤️
thank you 🥺💖
The fact that they literally copied Bollywood dancing and all in the songs and tried to make the clothing look Indian which completely sucked cause the costume designer was like "They'll never know"
And here in India when they make period pieces they go all out with budget to get those azing dresses. Especially for royalty.
adds this to my reasons for hating Disney. but also this insight into traditional/formal dress was really interesting and I'm glad I got to see it
Even a B grade Bollywood movie can come up with better costumes. But what is Disney going for, Middle East or Indian? Dont they know that there are about 20 different countries with their own cultures, before even Middle East reach India? and in India, there are hundreds of different styles.
godddd Baijirao Mastani is literally 20x better on every level on 1/10 of the budget. I'm just going to go watch the victory song from it now to clense my palette from having to view that terrible costume design with my good eyes.
Tbh as someone who has worn outfits they refrenced , no these are not Turkish inspired. At all. Literally where 😭 they are known as kaftans, and literally nobody, no a single woman would wear such an exposing dress especially the boob slit no honey no 😭😭😭 and the designs on these are far from any middle eastern, especially arab countries. 😭😭😭😭😭
This whole movie bothered me, because Indian and Arabian traditional dresses looks fabulous and they could have done some cool designs... but they did whatever it was that they did. As an Indian I was like wtf when I first saw jasmine
As an Indian Punjabi feminist obessed with bollywood...I agree with every word you said. You literally took all of my thoughts regarding this movie and put them into a video lol. Thanks.
9:44 in the gulf area (idk abt other swana countries) we used to wear a beautiful tradtional green bridal dress but they stopped doing that, I believe in the 80s-early 2000s and ever since then our brides have been wearing white dresses, however during lilat al henna (henna night) where everyone gathers wearing tradtional clothes the bride wears the green dress so ya I hope that we return to wearing the green dress again during the official wedding in the future because it was beautiful and it was more like our culture
Yea the gulf arab countrys do that but not every arab country in my country iraq they wore a white dress and a black vale some do red vale too but that was in the past and then they brought the bride on a horse to the husbands house lol😂😂😂
haven't seen the movie, but from what I see here, I think the costumes were probably ordered as "typical fairy tale princess dress, but make it exotic"
Middle eastern(arab,turk,Persian)princess in past wore typical European dresses with a vale so I'm not surprised
Granted I'm not south asian or arab but I grew up in Egypt and India so I'm familiar enough with both countries/regions culture and dress. So when I watched the film I was confused about why the costumes were a mix of indian/south asian, NA, and SWA. To me it felt as weird as watching a film where the costumes and culture are a mixture of traditional russian folk custome and spanish folk costume.
But as the film went on I thought the weird 'mixture' was bc Jasmine's mother came from a indian/south asian-coded kingdom bc the sultan and everything/everyone outside the palace seemed Arab-coded but the only people I really saw wearing indian "inspired" clothing were jasmine and other people in the palace. That was the only way I could make sense of the costumes bc the alternative explanation of the designers just mixing Indian/south asian, SWA, and NA fashion bc they didn't know anything about the cultures seemed like something too stupid to actually be real.
The examples you provided of better, accurate looks are stunning!!!!!
No.....the budget comparison....I think I have to pass away they had 10x the budget......& just deewani mastani is better than the entire Aladdin I genuinely am going to be ill
like how embarrassing must that be for them
Bruh I've always felt off about jasmine with this weird in between thing that it's movie with brown characters and uses a lot of stuff I'm also familiar with as a Punjabi as well. But execution is always a bit off and like having it set in Middle East made me hesitant to criticize, it's only with this video I realise that nah bro they smashed all our cultures together with no real effort.
The main blue dress in live action made me cringe so much because it's so stiff and the pictures you showed of alternative blue lahengas were way better. That's all to say I'm glad this video got into my recommended, it feels cathartic to watch.
At leat they didnt show the belly lol if they did she would be 100% Indian
Princess in old Arabia used to were dresses like Europeans but with a vale on the head so I dont think they westernized her clothes 😂 but they look hella cheap
After watching the movie, I wondered why Jasmine was the only character to change outfits several times while everybody else looked the same.
I hate how a bunch of eastern cultures were just mashed together. If you did that with western cultures, everyone would find it soooo weird! Like imagine a movie taking place during the French Revolution, but everyone's sporting Italian names and German accents (and speaking English, of course) while living in Victorian mansions and wearing medieval dresses with corsets that shouldn't exist for another century. Oh, and the Englishmen, all with random Norwegian accents, are just getting along splendidly with the French (100% historically inaccurate)! But the nobles aren't executed (even though that was one of the biggest parts of the French Revolution) because American cowboys come to save the day. The name of the movie? Probably something with a Russian-sounding pun.
Maybe in like an anime... but even anime writers seem to do a better job in their research
brooo best comment i cant stop laughingg
Someone should make that
5:22 DEVDAS !!
Gosh, I love this movie. Chandramukhi especially.
team chandramukhi but she deserved better
OMFG I'm living for how you're ripping into the clothes
I thought it was weird to see Victorian silhouettes in Aladdin.
Omg when are you gonna understand that middle eastern princess used to were clothes just like Victorians 😭
@@lmao5070 😧😧 silhouettes and wearing clothes are two different things. I knew they wore clothes... Did they have whale boned corsets and crinolines?
What are you implying?🙄🙄
I mean a dress just like the Victorian they used to wear dresses that show there skin and vale on there hips (it seem that was the fashion of that time )
But now we wear vales on our hips just for dancing and they had realy colorful tight bra just saying we weren't wearing "saris or what ever its called"like Indians so the dresses are accurate
And the gold coins on the head or on the dress were accurate too you can search harem painting and you will see if you want too
@@lmao5070 When was Aladdin set?
The story of which it is based on, "One thousand and one night" was set in 600-700..
I know of what you speak of. But the time period for that is the mid-1800s.
@@ajayiayooluwa9836 but the story is much older the oldest version of it in Arabic says that the story happened in china but all the character in story have Arabic names so its realy confusing
6:25 When I watched the Aladdin live-action I actually felt like Disney wasn't being honest with cultural design, like I feel they know what they're designing. The first Aladdin movie was successful so I guess they wanted to make the live-action as a marketing to kids to purchase the next 'big thing' for fashion in disneyland or something.
Edit: I thought about the same thing too 9:50
omg yes the reason why i didn't watch this movie was bc the promo outfits Jasmine was wearing looked so horrible they really did my girl so dirty :(
when i saw the pink dress i was like ok so Disney woke up and chose violence
I think they should have just stuck with the Indian or Arabic fashion or blend them together a bit than what the final product got. But going with full Bollywood would have been a very smart and possibly the best decision for it.
Uhm you got it wrong buddy, aladdin is Arabian based story not indian 🙂
@@alien9179 I know they are different, that's why I listed them as separate costuming direction for this movie, as it's aesthetics seems all over the place. And just because the most known version of the story is based in an Arabic setting does not mean that movie directors and retelling of the story can choose a different setting and time period for their own version of it. Your ability to read human language does not equate for your ability to comprehend it or it's context.
Also by your logic, this movie should have set in China as Aladdin originates from China. 🙄
@@uberkirbeeh7954 uhm is there any prove it was in China? Plus the man who wrote aladdin cartoon movie said it was originally from Arab. My theory is China stole the move after the collapse of Baghdad. But not sure i just want the brown people to be recognized 😕 not to replace them with other cultures.
@@alien9179 The earliest versions of the story literally opens with it saying that the story takes place in one of the many cities in China. Notably, Far East. They didn't steal the story. It just that over time people shifted it taking place in Arabic setting, because the Arabs were the biggest fans of that story. You can literally find this out if you do a 5 min google search.
@@uberkirbeeh7954 so it was written by a Chinese guy? Not sure but I'll do a research.
I have an honest question for my SWANASA friends: how does color theory work in your community? I love Bollywood films and I love how the colors in the films seem purposeful and carefully placed. Billowing fabrics and constant movement are so eye catching I was wondering if there was a method to how colors are placed in everyday or is it just for film?
from my experience, if you live in a city or a more modern part, people generally wear western clothes (jeans, t-shirts, etc.) but when you go to the "ooru" (sorry idk the english word for it), you'll see everyone wearing churidar, sarees in every color of the rainbow. black is uncommon though, bc its seen as the color of death. sorry for any language mistakes :DD
@@sanjana4872 Ooru (ancestral village). Black is not a symbol of death (unless you are Christian) but the colour of Shani (Saturn). Hence, considered inauspicious, except during the winter equinox.
I was JUST saying to my husband yesterday that Bollywood 20 years ago already had better production value and costumes than this film.
I’ve never seen this movie and I don’t plan on it. I’m also not brown so I don’t wanna meddle in this but I gotta say the costumes feel like the stuff we Europeans can put at our cities medieval festival
So I'm not part of the culture but greatly enjoy Indian cinema (and most of the films you drew as your examples I've seen) as well as enjoy (historical) costume design. After watching your video, you make a great point and finally helped me actually clarify how I felt seeing this? It was just very just bland all around? Like the costume designers partly watched some Bollywood films (and MAYBE an episode or two of Magnificent Century* if I'm being generous) and was like "how can we take this and co-opt it as our own?"
*I know MC is is different period of time and different geographic location but to me some of those outfits looked like there was some Ottoman period kaftans tossed into the orientalist blender of "Inspiration"...
Let's be real Disney live actions after Cinderella in 2015 was just disappointing I can't
She had no color theme. The best designers do that. And her wedding dress looked like half of the outfits in the scene. How is the bride melting into the crowd?
Damn it's ridiculous that you're not getting more views yet, your content is really good
This is the first video of yours that I've ever seen and I just want to say..a Punjabi Sikh youtuber???? uh YES PLEASE-
Ikr I'm punjabi too I'm from New Delhi
Where has this video been all my life?! I love the sense of humor and the wit!
The red violet dress reminds me of something Esmeralda would wear as a costume at the Feast of Fools
Bajirao mastani is my favorite period movie😭💙
I'm not south Asian but you cannot deny their fashion is too notch
Fr the fabrics are so beautiful
why are the bodices so structured that looks so specifically european
"...Because I don't, I know what I'm about, and that's being a hater -" 😂😂
Thanks for this analysis! It was very enlightening. Forgive me, I actually did love how vibrant and ornate Jasmine's costumes were, but I am also just the ignorant demographic this movie targeted. But aesthetically pleasing is not accuracy. I completely agree with you that more respect and research needs to be paid when portraying other cultures. It made me sad to hear you so deflated because you and all the SWANASA cultures referenced here did deserve better. I agree it's crappy that Disney didn't hire people actually of those eastern cultures to design the film (and you're totally right about evoking stereotypes of oppressive cultures when we in the US have plenty oppression and corruption and bigotry of our own).
But disney is never historically accurate, look at cinderella or beauty and the beast. And it also merges different cultures, for example in sleeping beauty all the names are italian but the arquitecture is french. Snow white is german but her castle is inspired in the Alcazar of Segovia, Spain. Etc , etc. They never look for historical accurary and always merge cultures, they only look to be attention catchy with pretty colours for the kids.
Jasmine's outfits look like a costume with all the plastic beads and coins all over her. She stands out to me because her costumes don't fit with the other outfits of the other characters,. The neckline on most of them seem like such a modern cut with the deep sweetheart, but they're 'trying' to pretend this is historical fantasy so why this look and just for Jasmine, is it feminism? Is it a subtle attempt to make her seem more modern and therefore more right than everyone else? Or laziness?
I was kinda expecting something like the costumes from One Night with King since the Persian Empire covered most of the region Aladdin is most associated with now and the Queen looked extravagant, but still look like she was part of the same movie. I remembered a lot of embroidered fabrics and not beads on everything.
This neckline is in every arabian traditional clothes and the gold coin in arab countrys are used alot on dresses the dress is accurate but it looks cheap thats all
Try searching Arabian dresses or turkish or any middle eastern dresses they look like the European medieval fashion
I dont see why they should make jasmin were Indian clothes?
@@lmao5070 I did not know that, thanks! I admit that my knowledge of fashion is mostly European and newer. Kind of wish fashion was taught in history class it's kind of important as it is a representation of culture
Remember that scandal that they were giving the extras spray tans? So they wouldn't look so white? Yeah, not surprised that the costume department did as poorly as they did.
omfg i actually hadn't heard that but i just looked it up and wtfff 💀💀💀
So nice to see an Indian UA-camr making such good videos ☘️ got to learn so much about our own cultural dresses.
How could Disney make good outfits and do research when the movie can't even pick a culture they were trying to represent.
Loved this. Keep up the good work :)
Indian women didn't wear that much tighter clothing on top half of their body so openly in ancient times women used to cover it with shawl like cloth. That Corset design is very European design.
Arabian princess used to were dresses like Victorians so yeah they did there research I guess
Why should an arab princess wear Indian clothes anyway
great video! big agree on the looks of the outfits, if they weren't worried about accuracy they should have at least made them look good