Not including the movie type characters, i'd definitely make the claim that Haunted Mansion uniforms are rather attractive. The maid and butler outfits are very classy and cool. And I like most of the world showcase costumes (besides the new American Adventure ones).
I'd have to agree with the HM costumes being "attractive" in that they definitely fit both the area and the attraction. I think many of the costumes found throughout Tomorrowland as well as Frontierland are the same. I think maybe that's the key with these... the attraction and the pavilion are so Colonial and not at all modern so it's less that these new costumes are ugly or unattractive and more that they don't seem to fit the area they are worn in.
Horse Jockeys?I love the VIP tour CM girls in their skirts
All costume changes are considered to be horrible unless they are pre-approved by the Fanboi Fashion Police.
But the costumes aren't designed to flatter the CM's. They are meant to flatter the stage surroundings. They are theater costumes. Nobody looks great either in 18th century torn rags for a production of Les Misérables.
Part of communicating a place is based in a representation of time. I find it hard to believe that the Imagineers who designed EPCOT Center did it wrong and somehow filled in the gaps with a more elaborate costume that just happened to look colonial like the architecture.
What is more American than Mickey Dee's ?No kidding.
But apparently Imagineering of the early 1980's did get it wrong, and it took 30 years for the brain trust in TDO to break through decades of mistakes and finally give the American pavilion what it needed; a contemporary polyester uniform that looks a lot like what you'd see in a fast food drive-thru window.
If only the 1982 Imagineers and Orlando executives had been as brilliant as their 2012 peers and realized that contemporary drive-thru vision, this is is the pavilion uniform that would have debuted in '82 with the American Adventure's first day of public operation....
"Welcome to the American Adventure! The next show starts in seven minutes."
After this, our EPCOT30 weekend, how many people snapped out of the denial phase regarding what the park has become? I mean, D23, the presentations, the tweets...at some point they had to look around and say, y'know, this place kinda sucks nowNo kidding.
But apparently Imagineering of the early 1980's did get it wrong, and it took 30 years for the brain trust in TDO to break through decades of mistakes and finally give the American pavilion what it needed; a contemporary polyester uniform that looks a lot like what you'd see in a fast food drive-thru window.
If only the 1982 Imagineers and Orlando executives had been as brilliant as their 2012 peers and realized that contemporary drive-thru vision, this is is the pavilion uniform that would have debuted in '82 with the American Adventure's first day of public operation....
"Welcome to the American Adventure! The next show starts in seven minutes."
No kidding.
But apparently Imagineering of the early 1980's did get it wrong, and it took 30 years for the brain trust in TDO to break through decades of mistakes and finally give the American pavilion what it needed; a contemporary polyester uniform that looks a lot like what you'd see in a fast food drive-thru window.
If only the 1982 Imagineers and Orlando executives had been as brilliant as their 2012 peers and realized that contemporary drive-thru vision, this is is the pavilion uniform that would have debuted in '82 with the American Adventure's first day of public operation....
"Welcome to the American Adventure! The next show starts in seven minutes."
Speaking of saying things elsewhere in the thread... (LOL
) the key here is not that these are unattractive or don't flatter the CMs. The key is that the costumes at each attraction or in each land are themed to match the environment. While it may be true that the pavilions are supposed to represent places and not times, in this case, the pavilion is undoubtedly set in a very specific time and the new costumes, flattering or not, are out of place. I think that is the general "complaint" with these. Sure it's great to put the CMs into more practical costumes or modernize where appropriate but if it conflicts with overall presentation of where the CMs are standing, it becomes confusing.You mean this one right?
You mean this one right?
(not my picture - borrowed from Passporter)
