being someone who has a few different personalities in the clothes closet , it didn't ping me.

I don't think movie characters get to have that same flexibility, though. Wardrobe is part of the shorthand of character. Sandy totally sold out for Danny, for instance. I don't care what was left in her closet.

I agree, ita. But when Andi went over to Iona's, it's not like she had cleaned her closet out. That whole scene between them was in her closet (wasn't it?) and you could still see her eccentric stuff hanging up, as opposed to in trash bags. Whereas with Sandy, we didn't see her closet. Plus, Sandy had changed personalities AND clothes. I only ever got that Iona changed clothes.

Are we talking about what's her name in The Breakfast Club? Scary dandruff is art chick?

That's my favorite moment in the whole damn movie.

being someone who has a few different personalities in the clothes closet , it didn't ping me.

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Huh. I never thought of it that way. It always struck me as part of the endless "You'd be so pretty if you didn't dress like that/dye your hair funny colors/wear strange eye makeup/be just like everyone else" messages I see everywhere. (I know, I know, my issues.) But it never occurred to me to look at it as just trying on a different costume for the date. Though I could have *sworn* there was a line that implied Iona was changing not just her style, but who she was, for the yuppie date.

I dunno Aimee. In a lot of 80s movies, clothing was used to demonstrate character, especially a change in character. Like Working Girl. It was all haircuts and designer suits as self-empowerment.

I loved so much of The Breakfast Club, but could never fathom why anyone would actually prefer to look like that.

It was a puzzlement.

I dunno Aimee. In a lot of 80s movies, clothing was used to demonstrate character, especially a change in character. Like Working Girl. It was all haircuts and designer suits as self-empowerment.

I can see that as an 80's movie thing. I guess I have the luxury of not having seen the movies when they were released, I saw them when I was in my twenties, when I already possesed several personalities in my closet, so I just attributed it to that.

That's my favorite moment in the whole damn movie.

I do like that moment. It's up there with the Cap'n Crunch/pixie sticks/white bread sandwich.

My favorite is Brian telling what he did to get detention.

Or Claire giving Bender her diamond earring.

And now I think I need to go and find a DVD of Some Kind of Wonderful, because I love it almost as much as The Wicked Lady.

::reflects::

I suppose it may be no coincidence that both contain girls who dress as/like boys, although they're very different films.

If you like the gender benders, Just One of the Guys is great.