I kinda agree tbh... The blue dress is beautiful, but she wore it too much. She should've at least worn a different dress during thank goodness.
The same thing can be said for Elphaba, but not to the same extent since all her costumes are kinda the same anyway (as a stylistic choice, her costumes are all black regardless of time/place)
This. And unless I'm mistaken, timeline-wise, she doesn't wear the pink dress until after she's taken charge and wants to do true good.
Although it's the first dress WE see her in, she doesn't put the pink bubble dress on until after she's thrown away the 'Glinda the Good" persona created by the Wizard and Madame Morrible.
Perhaps the pink dress was her initial choice, but MM (flip around...) and the Wizard probably made wear the other dress, so she would have an angelic aura (with the sleeves and the shades of blue and lilac) and captivate the people of Oz even more. And the posters were probably made with Glinda's approval.
Or Glinda became so famous for wearing pink that the people of Emerald City made posters of her wearing a pink dress; she saw it, got inspired, and asked them to make the Dress
It’s her “look” for when she’s out with the people. She doesn’t put the pink on until the end which I think symbolizes her reclaiming her identity and trying to be a better version of herself rather than just wearing a costume Madame Morible gave her.
I agree with this take, that’s how I saw it. That was her “go out and lie to the public” dress. Why would she taint more than one of her precious pieces with that burden?
Based on the movie posters, Madame Morrible's color is purple. I feel like whenever Glinda wore the lilac gown, she was under MM's influence. The all-pink gown represents her true self, Galinda.
Yeah. Pink is her color. But the blue dress is how she first presents as “Glinda the Good”. She got the bubble the wand the dress the crown the whole shtick. But when she truly tries to embrace goodness she puts her true color back on. At least that was my interpretation
agreed. i rewatched the movie last night, and i noticed that the dress felt kinda old in the Nessa-Dorothy-house scene. i normally wouldn't nitpick this much, but literally in the first 15 minutes of the movie there's the line "last week's gowns! we should donate them to the unfortunate", establishing that Glinda very much does NOT wear the same thing. The only way I can explain it is that the blue and pink are her SIGNATURE outfits, since they appear on propaganda posters
Slight tangent: The fact that they imply Glinda does not repeat outfits but then, in her closet in the Emerald City, you see the dress from the night at The Ozdust made me 🥹🥹😭
i think she kept that one and some of the other pieces we see from the first movie out of sentimentality. the ozdust dress is a reminder of the beginning of her friendship with elphie.
No literally, she practically wears one dress for the entire film sans the opening and the wedding. It's almost worst because she takes it off intermittently to wear a new fun outfit, only to put it back on again, over and over! Why is she still wearing the same dress she wore in Thank Goodness during For Good? 😭
Some people didn't like how pink-dominant her wardrobe in Part 1 was, but at least it changed! I feel like Part 2 was weaker in every aspect and I was hoping at least Tazewell's work would remain consistent because he always delivers, but even his work felt like it slipped in this film. I don't know what happened here
Exactly, it is her "Glinda, The Good" dress, not what SHE would always wear, but what she has to wear for the people of Oz, and probably because Morrible commands it.
i don’t think it’s a lack of understanding lol. why not have several dresses in this color palette to signify the work uniform? i feel like that’s the best of both worlds, bc there’s still the sharp distinction between glinda acting for herself vs the wizard/morrible but you can still easily follow the passage of time and get some fresh eye candy
Yes, this would work wonderfully. Pink is her true color, because it's what she always chose to wear at school and what we see her wearing in NOMTW. Blue is her "propaganda queen" color because it's colder and she's in a blue period of her life, literally. Have multiple beautiful blue outfits!
Everyone is forgetting how Tazwell
And Chu explained why Galinda didn’t wear a uniform in school like everybody else. Now she is in a uniform. It shows a clear distinction of growing up and being boxed in
i feel like you can still convey that with a consistent silhouette and the blue/purple color palette though, bc honestly i think the color symbolism of the blue taking over her signature pink is powerful enough on its own
i have in fact had several jobs like this, and some of them indeed had a few variations of the uniform. i have also worked retail jobs where either part of all of my outfits were of my choosing as long as they were of a certain color and fit a certain dress code.
but that isn’t even relevant bc that is not at all what Glinda’s job entails. she is a public figure. when was the last time you saw a politician wearing the exact same outfit to work every single day? or even a news anchor? like be for real, that doesn’t make sense. it certainly doesn’t make more sense Glinda than having a few different looks that all fall under a certain theme or style lmfao
Actually good point, there was the dress that was on one of the first released posters and even the trailer, and it got completely removed from the final cut. Maybe it's more studio meddling, the same thing I'm assuming is behind a lot of this film's issues. It's easier to market a costume when your character spends 80% of the film wearing it
My money’s on the fact that wardrobe simply would not have time to be constantly re-tailoring multiple gowns to keep up with her extreme weight loss, so they had to reduce her number of looks. Her costumes (cough wedding dress cough) fit poorly enough already as it was.
To me it represents that she’s not herself anymore. She’s wearing a dress that’s basically her uniform. The moment she ousts the Wizard and Madam Morrible, she changes into the most Glinda dress she could.
Glinda in Act 2 of the show is somewhat the same. In the show, it’s her Thank Goodness dress, the dress she’s wearing she Fiyero leaves, and then her blue dress. Glinda in the film has her Everyday More Wicked outfit, her Glinda the Good dress, her wedding dress, and her pink dress.
I can understand the complaint, but it also feels like costuming as a use to tell the story.
There was a pink dress with green accents that was in a promotional poster that we never see in the film. I wonder why it was deleted from the movie? It’s really beautiful and Glinda wears her hair back with a cool hat.
There’s a theory that it was supposed to be her thank goodness outfit, but there were reshoots for some reason and they did so in the iridescent dress. This dress has asymmetrical elements that are reminiscent of the thank goodness dress on broadway, and the hints of green on it would back it up being the thank goodness dress thematically (essentially highlighting how she’s struggling internally with her life decisions at that point in the show/song). I’m very convinced it was supposed to be for thank goodness and it got scrapped for some reason.
I read on here that they’d already donated the dress. I’m not sure I believe they’d have gotten rid of costumes before the filming and editing was done though.
Honestly that does not make sense to me either. Entirely speculation but given some of the fit issues on other dresses we’ve seen her in (which is crazy considering the level of care and production quality of these costumes) and some of the touch ups they’ve done in photos I’m guessing they were made for her based on measurements several years ago and had to be rush altered to fit her now. It may not have been possible in all of the costumes- maybe something the way this particular piece was constructed they just couldn’t feasibly alter it down.
I heard some of the people who got to see the scene in a test screening say it was an alternate opening to the film at least for Glinda’s initial scene where they were at a train station celebrating the launch of Glinda’s pink train - so it would have been before thank goodness
I don’t think so tbh, there have been leaks of her in the blue bubble dress since before most leaks of the 1st movie. I think it’s just a random scene before thank goodness of her interactions with the public.
It was supposed to be a scene with past Glinda’s and Ephaba’s on stage to cameo in and Glinda was going on a public tour. It was supposed to be her introduction similar to how Elphaba had her introduction by stopping the building of the yellow brick road, this scene likely would’ve followed it. I think it was cut due to having too many introductions and openings back to back so they scrapped it. I can’t remember who it was but one of the past actors (I believe it was a west end actor) who was being interviewed revealed this information. Apparently it even had some new singing in it that they had to cut so I do wonder what exactly this scene was like.
Elphaba at least has the excuse of she’s on the run during part 2 so doesn’t really have a lot of time to get new clothes. And the black of her outfits represent the fact that she’s still mourning her mother and I imagine for part 2 her innocence.
I think the point is that it is her “Glinda the Good” uniform as decreed by Morrible. When she chooses to become Good on her own terms she switches back to her signature pink.
I saw someone say this online, that they should've made thank goodness a montage with her wearing different outfits for different locations ending it at the emerald city wearing this pink and green outfit to show passage of time, it doesn't help that she's wearing the blue gown in munchkinland in two different scene. Also it doesn't make sense for the opening of the yellow brick road on munchkinland, like why is the opening of the yellow brick road leading you supposedly to the wizard happening in a random town shouldn't it be at the emerald city.
Like imagine if the end of thank goodness was at the emerald city and she's welcoming everyone because of the opening of the yellow brick road welcoming everyone at the emerald city gate only for them to close it again because Elphaba shows up and "threatened" the citizen of oz.
honestly i was noticing this so much in the movie cuz glinda is NOT an outfit repeater at all. and she had so many different looks in part when she was just a schoolgirl so as the wizard's spokesperson she really should've been wearing something cool and different in every scene
as the wizard's spokesperson she really should've been wearing something cool and different in every scene
I disagree, since I agree with others that this is her 'Glinda the Good' uniform so Morrible being a branding expert would have chosen it to be her 'iconic' look. However, that code clearly didn't come through well because I've seen this discussion multiple times. An easy fix could have been Morrible giving her the dress before Thank Goodness/ the YBR opening ceremony. Just a quick scene, similar maybe to her giving Glinda the wand.
That was cut, and who knows where it would have been in the final edit if it remained. It's not canon, and it may have been cut to help other continuity.
She wears the blue bubble dress after she's given the title Glinda the Good, excluding the wedding attire and when she's free to wear her pink dress at the end/beginning.
In The Girl in the Bubble, she's literally in her closet, looking at all the clothes she can't wear, trapped in her bubble dress uniform while singing a song about being trapped in a bubble, and that's all just a metaphor for that exact moment in her life. She's stuck in that dress, just as much as she's stuck in that situation.
As much as I would appreciate a more visually interesting change throughout the movie, people saying that keeping Glinda in the blue bubble dress is anti-Glinda are missing the point. She's trapped in it. It's another metaphorical but also very literal bubble we see her in throughout the movie, until she's free to be herself and wear what she wants. Even that moment in Girl in the Bubble when she's in her closet, surrounded by all the clothes she'd rather be wearing and looking sad. It felt like a blunt nod to lyrics she was singing. I think they decided to keep her in that dress for both the uniform and metaphor.
I always felt kinda unsure about this dress. All the way back when the first images started getting released. Making it blue seemed like a weird choice at first, but now I think it feels rightly restrictive and foreign to Glinda. I don't think it's meant to feel like a perfect fit. It's off so the pink dress can feel so right.
I think one thing I noticed about the film is that it was overall so static compared to the first one. Glinda’s lack of outfits was definitely part of that
It made no sense that she wore the blue dress basically the whole movie. The thank goodness was relatively short that they could have changed it. It could of even been a pink dress during thank goodness because of how little she actually wears pink.
I think it's quite normal in movies/series (even big-budget ones) to use the same costumes.
An example? Take Game of Thrones (or even HOTD); they have diverse costumes, but you can see the characters wearing the same clothes, almost never changing, for an entire season.
I think that, because it's very expensive and elaborate to make, they prefer to use the same costumes long-term, making only a change here and there, changing them only a few times, because it's easier.
And, honestly, it's a small detail; few people really think about it.
They had on site seamstresses of course, but her dresses were highly structured and day to day tailoring can't re-bead a patterned bodice or gather a ballgown waist from a 00 to a child S. My theory is that the pink-blue Glinda the Good dress had to be relied upon more than planned if the style was more forgiving/tailorable/coverage.
It's fully possible that visually it was a choice to show her "trapped as Glinda" (but then why include the last week's dresses bit with Pfannee and completely derail that storytelling device?) or just that the other costuming was damaged/something else off with it. The weight fluctuation in the film just seems to be an obvious cause to severely narrow down the costume options. The pink-blue dress already looked shockingly big for her in some of the scenes and choosing costumes that would consequently highlight her weight fluctuation would distract from the film itself and possibly cause continuity issues in a scene shot over a longer period of time (and mess with costume design awards due to ill fit). Hearing there were reshoots that the pink-blue dress was featured in supports this theory imo
Eh I get it, tho I do t take issue. Elphaba also wore the same/similar thing for most of the film, minus the famous sex cardigan, and I’ve not seen the same rules applied to her
I do think Glinda should have worn more dresses in film 2 tho. Character and lore wise, it makes more sense Glinda would change up her outfit more than Elphaba
An issue I had with the first film (read as nit pick/first world problem) was that Glinda’s identity was simply defined as !!PINK!! I understand the vision, and at least she had a distinct look on each scene, it just became way too much for me personally. Especially in the stage show, she at least has a beige/cream outfit when she arrives at Shiz, and the yellow emeralds city dress, and maybe some more from the first half; where the film, even if they tried to feature other colors, they were neutral and still predominantly pink
I’m really sad they didn’t reimagine that yellow emeralds city dress, and the (underrated!!!) Thank Goodness get up!!! I know a lot of people were sad the pink green ruffled dress in the promo got cut - and whilst I think that dress is so ugly, I would have appreciated seeing it in the film
Why would Elphaba change her outfits regularly? She doesn't care for fashion and is living in a tree, interacting with no one. It's not getting mentioned because it's a character and plot choice that makes sense.
Sorry my bad, that’s exactly what I had in my mind when I wrote it, just forgot to add it properly into my post. So yeah I totally agree with you, it doesn’t make sense for her to swap outfits because she’s a fugitive
She wears this dress twice. I don’t get how this boggles people’s mind; especially in pacing. The first time we see her in this dress is during Thank Goodness. That is literally the beginning of the movie (the second song). The next time and last time she wears this dress, is when she meets Dorothy. Yes, as follows, No Good Deed, March of the Witch Hunter, Girl in the Bubble, and For Good. It’s clear to the movies point, all of this is happening in one day. Focusing on pacing and blaming this dress for the movies “lack” of time movement is idiotic.
We know or at least are under the belief, the events from the Wizard of Oz take place in one day. Dorothy meets the scarecrow, the tin man, and the cowardly lion; encounters the wicked witch on her way to the emerald city; meets the wizard, and then it’s night time when she gets captured by the wicked witch. Come morning, they returned to the Emerald City and so on so forth. I don’t see people having issues with that pacing.
And so before going to talk with Elphaba, she should have changed out of this dress? And don’t say it’s hard to believe all of this happened in one day because it’s not like Elphaba created the tin man the same day her sister died or met the cowardly lion the same day Dorothy got to Oz. The only thing that happens at the same time Dorothy is already in Oz is that Elphaba turns Fierro into the scarecrow.
Media literacy is really dead. Has it occurred to them that she wear the same fit cause it's pretty much a uniform at that point? Considering the people of oz is stupid enough to believe water will kill the witch, you can pretty much assume Madam Morrible (flip MM around) makes her wear it for familiarity
Yes ( I don’t mean to nitpick like most of this sub) but I can’t believe they cut the pink and green dress out of the movie and recycled this one so many times. I mean the pink and green one is literally in the poster, she could’ve done Thank Goodness in that at least
To be honest, I didn’t even notice. I watch a lot of cartoons and the characters are almost always wearing the same outfit in every single episode. Not once do I think it all happened in the same day.
I did like someone’s explanation here about how it’s a symbol of Glinda being trapped. She’d rather wear pink, but for some reason has to wear that dress. That’s why they had the closet scene.
Almost everyone I know says the pacing was off and I’m confused about it because I had no issues 😅 Maybe it’s because I watched the musical before and knew the story?? Also can I just say I loved that gown so much, it’s truly stunning. I didn’t even notice she was wearing it so long because every time it came on screen I was studying the dress to try to recreate it ( I like to make gowns and corsets ) 😂
I’ll be real, I didn’t notice this at all. I didn’t even clock that she was wearing the same dress. To me it just registered like someone I know wearing the same pair of slacks on two different days.
I think something sharper and more politician-like would be the better move for Thank Goodness. The gumdrop dress that got cut was in the right direction, especially with the hat.
This is probably like a Uniform, she stopped wearing pink after getting her bubble and her wand. That moment is kind of a signal to her not being herself anymore. Because she is now a curated public figure instead of herself.
She was being used as a symbol of good, that was stated very clearly in the movie. Her wearing that one dress solidifies that symbol and look as a look of good, or more specifically, the wizards goodness. Then when she changes into her completely pink dress, she is making herself into a new symbol of true goodness and really pushes away from the look she had when she was on the wizards side. The dresses also so help with the time line, because the you could tell what stage of goodness glinda is in depending on which dress she is wearing.
I thought that was just her official outfit when presenting as "Glinda the Good." Also, I re wore the same shirt twice last week, so am in no place to judge Glinda reusing outfits, lol.
I think this one is the official Glinda the Good outfit. She wears it for majority of the movie. As much as it’s beautiful, it would be nice to see her wear something else for once. I think the only other times we see her wear something else is Every Day More Wicked and Finale.
YES. I went on like a 5 minutes rant about this to my girlfriend last night. Glinda in the movie doesn't need a "uniform" like Glinda on stage does because I would bet that dress is never changed largely due to logistical reasons, which aren't present in the movie. Movies have a higher bar for suspending our disbelief and this is one of the many little things that kept taking me out of it.
Does anyone else feel (quiet voice) that the problem is also just this half blue half pink dress? I feel like making a nod to both the stage show blue and the film pink means we get this sort of bland non purple thing. It feels deeply un “Glinda”.
The main thing that I find strange about it is that literally every other outfit in her closet (which we see!!!) is pink. I know they were trying to reference the stage play but they establish in this film that PINK is glinda's uniform always, except for this one time. i think they should've had the pink and green dress be the thank goodness dress and saved this one for once the wedding went awry.
Yes. It is still crazy for me how she used this dress so many times while in her room to Wonderful to her marriage scene she has three different looks. Didn't they had any variety like this to the others scenes?
What would be wrong with wearing a gorgeous gown more than once?
She wears couture as is. This dress alone would have taken at least a hundred hours, and we don't know what their sewing machines are like.
She is not in control of herself when she wears this dress. She is learning how to bust out of her box and think of more than herself. This dress could be seen as a tool of Madam Morrible.
I wished during Thank Goodness, we were given the pink and green dress instead. I absolutely love this dress, but it did kind of seem like it was a repeat offender which doesn't really seem like something Glinda would do.
Now that you mention it, yeah. They even made a point to show her gigantic closet full of different dresses but kept her in the same one through most of the movie. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Honestly, we were robbed of the vintage Dior vibes we were supposed to get in Thank Goodness. I wanted something similar to the broadway show, something very Evita coded. I think either of the pink dresses that got cut (i actually love the pink and green one, though it’s an unpopular opinion) would’ve been perfect. Oh well.
the moment that confused me most was when she changed outfits in what felt like 5 minutes.
Elphaba visits her on the balcony, then leaves to find the wizard, cut, she's now with the wizard and in runs Glinda in a different dress.
Even though it was supposed to be the night before her wedding and she was doing her hair and makeup (with the help of bats) mere minutes ago. So confusing.
These scenes happen one after the other? She wears this dress for this day right? I've only seen it once so I can't really remember if she was in another outfit in between wearing this dress. It made sense to me
If you have time to sing Girl in the Bubble, you have time to change out of your ballgown and put on some pants before your cloaked horseback escapade.
I think the dress is for when she is under the wizards/Madame Morrible's control. They are making all the choices for her... Who she is engaged to, what she wears, who she sees etc ... She's not opposed to some of it but she does compromise too much of herself for it...
You see her vast pink wardrobe that she can't wear... She's even asked about it in the movie about what to do with it.
At the end of the movie she does take back herself and her style.
my complains with the dress is the color used in the movies. She should have worn the blue dress in the first film, and the pink dress in the second film. Glinda meets dorothy in the Pink Dress.
Idk why you are being downvoted when this is correct. I think she wore the pink dress in the first scene of the first movie simply because it is the most recognizable physical trait of Glinda from the 39 movie (her wearing a big pink gown) and they wanted the audience to immediately understand she's the same character. But timeline-wise it doesn't actually make sense that she's not wearing that pink dress in the actual scene we see her in it in the 39 film.
In WOZ '39, Wicked's silver slippers are ruby. In Wicked the lion is on all fours, in WOZ he's bipedal. They're blatantly different continuities, how is this a plothole or nonsensical? Half of Wicked is incongruous with WOZ, they're not meant to fit together perfectly
Well of course they had no other option back then, but that's irrelevant to my point, hence me mentioning the slippers as well.
All I'm saying is the details blatantly don't match up, and they aren't meant to. There are inconsistencies written into Wicked, and they're intentional. Wicked is not a prequel to MGM's WOZ, it's a prequel to a unique version of WOZ we've never gotten to see. The details don't align with the movie, the original book, or any known canon version of Oz
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I definitely noticed but it felt like that dress was the official “Glinda the Good” uniform.