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Earlier on my dad somehow mistook Alix for Chat Noir, so then I was like... yeah okay you know what she is Chat Noir now

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Meta #9: Costume stories

Hey, this meta is not gonna be very intense historical, literary, or what; it's just gonna be about clothes! The only indication I gave most of the participants to ZeVlog was : put on something that fits the situation in which you're comfortable. I think I wanted to convey this idea that the videos were shot spontaneously (which, to be honest, I struggled to believe about higher quality projects such as TLBD or Carmilla because they're all just so weirdly put together all the time lol... I dunno, is it American ? I like natural ><) and I wanted the bros to be at ease (so some of them wear makeup, some don't). Little stories about the costumes : during the shooting of the seventeenth vlog, George/Hamid Saraj received several compliments by randos in the street because of the Yuyu Hakusho shirt they're wearing. Several people noticed and commented on Madame de Grognasse/Lesgle's amazing dress in the fourteenth vlog. There's also Aaliyah Xpress’ drag appearance, and someone also complimented Marius' eyeliner, and I have to say Dee is an amazing makeup artist even with things as « apparently basic » as liner.

Clothes wort talking about!

But overall, I have nothing to do with their display of stylishness and fabness. My bros are just fashion icons don't @me !

Buut I made some decisions when it comes to the three characters that are more heavily involved in the fictional side of the story, that is to say Grantaire, Enjolras and Marius.

First, Marius, I told Dee : bourgeoise who doesn't have money anymore so we settled for a pseudo preppy hipster thriftshop look with pieces that mostly cost like 1 or 2 euros, but worn in a pretty conventional way overall (which is not Dee's usual style, she likes to customize her clothes and is a cosplayer and drag queen/king, so conventional is not her everyday life).

A little story about Marius : Dee cut her hair and dyed them pastel pink between the beginning and the end of the shooting, and like I had already shot some late vlogs (with so many people involved, we didn't shoot in order), so Dee had to hide her hair in some other videos. Hence, her adorable little hat in the ninth and sixteenth vlogs.

Then, for Enjolras, the only thing I told Peter was : RED ahah. I think I got the character's signature color right. In the thirteenth video even, it looks like Enjolras is only wearing black but there's a bit of red on their shirt. Peter is an incredibly stylish person IRL, so we got a very stylish Enjolras but... I mean... it all goes back to the musical. What the fuck is that amazing looking red waistcoat that makes him a living target? Visual codes! Well, I guess as long as style doesn't get in the way of the revolution.

We also had a hair « accident » with Peter who momentarily had longer hair for the Red and Black video. We also used a hat to hide it!

“Hair accidents” covered by hats

As for Grantaire, I decided three things for them : first, to use my military coat. It's a piece of my « garde robe » that I’ve worn since High School and I got several of them so I could keep wearing it as long as possible. It's an airplane pilot coat, you can find it for very cheap. And it's the first male piece of clothing I owned, so the roots of my transness are there lol. I just thought the military style gave Grantaire a little punk aspect and the shape of it is pretty intemporal. I gave Grantaire my old, used coat with stains and stuff. I currently wear another one that is less used.

We started shooting in June though... that thing was HoT!

Second: messy is the word. They're never put together and often have their shirt half out of their pants, too big clothes, and overall maybe they don't look dirty, but they look messy. The short-shorts also made some of their outfits look less put together and also it allowed me to show my hairy legs! Hairy legs for the win!

The essence of Grantaire’s style

Third: I know, from the musical, people got that Grantaire's color was green. Well, with the coat I settled for more of a red/blue opposition with Enjolras, which echoes many famous Franco-Belgian comic duos (Spirou and Fantasio, Alix and Enak, etc.) But I got a detail from the musical and it's the stripes because musical Grantaire wears a kinda striped waistcoat. In ZeVlog, Grantaire often wears stripes. I think to me it was like an echo to prison, as like Grantaire is in several layers of mental prisons and that shows on their clothes.

(Fun fact: most of ZesongsofaMisérable were shot the same day, so I just brought all my striped clothes ahah).

Another detail, after the tenth vlog; did you notice that Grantaire started wearing Enjolras' color ? In the eleventh vlog, they wake up in a red shirt (a Divine Comedy (it's one of my fav bands) shirt which echoes Napoleon's symbol of a bee so it was both musical, as the eleventh vlog is about music, and French :P) and after that Grantaire often wears red. They're trying to communicate with their crush through clothing? Or maybe they're just influenced by Enjolras without being aware of it.  Also, in the eighth vlog and in ZeFic, I adapted the domino scene from the chapter Enjolras and his lieutenants and replaced the Robespierre red waistcoat Grantaire wears to impress Enjolras with a communist red scarf... Well... the red scarf has still a part to play....

Grantaire’s courtship