The new outfits are bad. At best they look like some of the classier outfits that parade dancers wear at Disneyland Paris. At worst they look like ill-conceived costumes for a community theater production with a bizarre mashup of midieval and 1930's nautical styles.
The fabrics are all wrong, making them look like cheap Halloween costumes. Instead of the detailed textured fabrics of the past, we now have
cheap polyester sustainably recycled textiles that don't hold their shape well, and are of uniform thickness and weight, in ways that don't make sense with the actual clothing they're trying to recreate. These materials are practical for parade dancers who will be moving constantly, sweating profusely, and quickly passing by their audiences, but a poor choice for singers who mostly stand still in the air conditioning with plenty of time for guests to see the (lack of) detail. It seems like the fabric was selected because it was machine-washable, not because it looks particularly good.
None of the costumes fit the performers well. Unlike most CM uniforms, these don't need to be worn by hundreds of people of varying sizes and body types; they need to fit a fairly low-turnover group of a few dozen people. They can and should be tailored to the performers who will wear them on a regular basis; the previous designs were created individually for each performer, creating not only well-fitting garments but also a variety of styles that spanned the centuries. Instead, these all seem to be a size too big for the performers wearing them, with only the sleeve lengths looking consistently correct.
Presumably the embroidered designs were inspired by music notes and clefs and stringed instrument f-holes (yes, that's the actual term), but instead just look like more swirly-twirly-magical nonsense that gets applied to all things Disney. It doesn't read as dignified, or even clearly recalls the inspiration. Instead it only serves to remind us that we're in a theme park, which as Disney management repeatedly seems to think is stupid entertainment for stupid people.
Maybe someone decided that the old uniforms would look out of place when singing
classic Americana Disney songs like "You're Welcome" or "Let it Go," and rather than allowing the Voices of Liberty to perform a dignified set list to match their respectable outfits, they decided it was better to dress them in these ill-fitting polyester costumes to match the low-effort song choices instead. It's a poor choice, but one that fits right in with Disney's recent philosophies.
