#other users have made some really excellent and cutting observations about how she behaves in the e4 outfit

[witchkillr]

okay hi i want to talk about agatha's costuming for a sec bc holy fuck do these people know what they're doing. all that follows is my own opinion/analysis.

i could write a whole post about cop!agnes and the butch coding with her but that's not agatha and doesn't count, so we pick up with the robe.

snakes! we love snakes. i think a lot about lilith parallels for agatha. if you look at westview as wanda's constructed eden, and agatha the corruptive force that rips it apart...

more than that, though, this is agatha at the most vulnerable we've ever seen her. she's still on the back foot, sorting through the situation she's in - her neck is bare, her hair is down. rio knows this and is here to capitalise on it. her lack of armour makes the fact that it's possible to touch her, to wound her, all the more apparent

she may hate the style, but this is absolutely not the last we'll see of purple in her 'comfort clothes', so keep that in mind

then we come to the 'witchvengers assemble' outfit. several things here.

first of all, these are agnes' clothes - except the shoes (though from "whose shoes are these?" we gather that they don't belong to her, either. not one single element of this costume does). agatha is, again, putting on the mask of an eccentric suburban sweetheart to get her read on lilia.

she can't bear to do it exactly like agnes again, though, so she adds the throw as a shawl, the pearls from teen's car, the stick in the hair. she wears the blouse loose, where agnes' fashion has historically favoured a tighter silhouette. and from all those things come this new character.

this outfit is very busy - the vertical stripes in the blouse, the geometry in the shawl. agatha is trying to convey mess. she's reaching for humanity. it's so much more approachable than the perfectly put together aesthetic sensibilities adhered to in wanda's westview, where looking like a postcard was the main visual benchmark for whether or not you could be trusted. ever the social chameleon, she recognises the differing demands of this new situation and works with what she's got to meet them.

the power outfit! i love this look so much. i don't think i need to explain to you that this is agatha's attempt at confidence in a situation that leaves her very unmoored - some little fun things of note instead.

that dramatic victorian silhouette with the frock coat. maybe historically-inspired fashion has always been agatha's happy place, or maybe this is another direct reaction to what she's been forced to wear for the past three years. maybe it's both!

agatha likes high collars. she likes to protect her neck, and she likes to be able to move. (see: the supervillainess fit in wv 8 + 9, the 2000s turtleneck, the 80s blouse)

she's keeping her purple close without being gaudy; that lining is gorgeous, and deeply tasteful. following through on that theme of "bringing her into the real world" (daniel selon, lead costumer)

her hair is up - like it often is when she's putting on a front of one kind or another. the hair came down for the reveal in wv too.

her mother's broach is front and centre here. so fascinating to me that she still honours evanora like this even after everything.

well, we spent a couple of hours free from contrived, colour-blocked suburbia...

though she's back in a suburban mom outfit, it's someone else's idea of a suburban mom: jen's. she gets to keep her high collar, but the structured blazer evokes a lack of movement - a sense of being trapped.

the hair and makeup bring in ideals of social media-style perfection, iterating on those expectations in wanda's tv-world. she's able to use the hair to hide behind in a literal sense.

this outfit does a great job of representing why agatha panics so quickly here. it feels like moving backward to her.

all that being the case, this look should be very comfortable by contrast, right? and it is, but there are problems here too.

selon talks about wanting rio and agatha on an "even playing field" here, and that's why they've both got these deep necklines - playing on the coding the robe set up in e1.

agatha has a lot of freedom of movement here, and she (rightly) thinks she looks hot. but this isn't an outfit she would choose for herself. baring her heart is not something she ever does willingly, anymore.