I'm back on my wardrobe-colour-meta shit again.
(This is long and probably psychotic)
They're both wearing navy suits (read: on the same page/guarded against the world together) the first time that they decide to make love, and Alex is wearing a nice black t-shirt (read: completely unaware of the consequences) under his suit jacket, whereas Henry is wearing one of the lightest blue dress shirts that he wears throughout the movie with white buttons and a dually-blue striped tie under his (read: guarded whilst being the slightest bit carefree/daring).
They're both wearing gray suits with white shirts and different coloured ties (which they quickly remove as soon as they're alone to be naked together - read: a new level of being on the same page while being mostly carefree/daring whilst still being united in being slightly guarded as both ties have blue in them) when Henry meets up with Alex in NYC.
They're both wearing nothing but white (read: completely carefree/daring together) when Henry was answering Alex's personal questions.
Alex is wearing a navy shirt with notes of white (and green - read: united with Henry on being guarded whilst also being carefree/daring) on it and pink swim trunks with white drawstrings (read: carefree/daring and having reached a new level of longing) whereas Henry is wearing nothing but blue (read: just guarded) when they're in the hammock together.
Henry is wearing a blue and gray plaid shirt with blue jeans and white sneakers (read: very guarded on being united with Alex on that new level while still managing to be carefree/daring which is quintessentially Henry) as he does karaoke which is why it makes perfect sense to me that Alex, during that scene, is wearing a black shirt with a maroon/pink kisses font on it and blue jeans (read: completely unaware of the consequences, united with Henry on being guarded, and longing for more).
Alex is wearing a black t-shirt (read: completely unaware of the extent of the consequences of wanting Henry for ever) the morning after he realizes he's in for-ever-love with Henry and confirming this by then even telling his dad about them.
Alex is wearing pink swim trunks with white drawstrings (read: longing for more, carefree/daring, and not on Henry's level of being guarded) during the almost-love-confession whereas Henry is wearing blue swim trunks with, among other colours, pink turtles on them (read: guarded and longing for more).
Henry is wearing a gray t-shirt and blue shorts (read: conflicted with wanting to be with Alex and being guarded) while alone on Alex's lake house bed with out him.
Henry is wearing a pink dress shirt and navy dress pants (read: longing for more and guarded) as he talks to Bea after leaving Alex whereas she's wearing a blue dress with a white print (read: both guarded and carefree/daring) as she asks him, poignantly, "What about your heart?".
They're both wearing navy suits with accents of blue, and white (read: both guarded and carefree/daring) when they face the king together and confirm their relationship to the public.
They're both wearing gray suits and white dress shirts with no pink or black (other than on accessories which don't count) to be seen (read: back on that heightened level of being of being together, carefree/daring on the relationship front as they are together/no longer longing for more, and completely aware on what their relationship means) on election night, and Alex is wearing a navy tie (read: guarded), because he didn't want others knowing that he was nervous about the election which made Henry getting Alex to focus on his tie all the more palpable to me as he's literally trying to reassure Alex.
On that note, I will point out yellowish hues represented confidence in the wardrobe throughout the movie, which tracks as Henry never, with the exception of the dots in the design on his copper tie that he wears to the NYE party, wears any until then, and I could break down the wardrobe department's colour choices in literally every scene of the movie with every single character and it would still all track. I'm either crazy or the movie had the exact right wardrobe department.
Friendly Reminder #1: What is Alex wearing when he tells Nora about their first kiss? A blue sweatshirt (read: guarded) with a purple t-shirt underneath (read: adding a longing-for-more emphasis) and dark grayish navy denim joggers (read: putting the emphasis back on being guarded whilst also being subconsciously all-in with Henry on wanting for ever together with out Henry knowing it) and what is Nora wearing when she's trying to convince Alex that they've been obvious the whole time? A pink blouse and greenish tan checkered dress pants and navy heels (read: both longing for more, confident whilst being sympathetic to Alex being guarded).
Friendly Reminder #2: Alex is wearing a white Henley, tan button down over it, and blue jeans (read: carefree/daring, confident, and guarded against the world with Henry) when actually confessing his love for Henry and all Henry is wearing is a navy robe that features a maroon paisley pattern on it and navy pajama pants with blue stripes (read: torn between being guarded and longing for more with Alex).
Friendly Reminder #3: Henry is wearing a navy suit with black lapels and a light blue vest, white dress shirt, and a pink tie (read: every thing that he associates with Alex with out being with Alex, which is why his facial expression goes from talking with his chummy sister to that of some one being called out by some one whom knows his true self/his public persona, which is also why I swear what she said there was "I'm going to get you a man at this event") in his very first scene only to then wear a literal "Blank Space" dress (which is blue with detailing of pink and white/silver, depending on the lighting, because the man in question was already subconsciously on a mission) as she notes how attractive Alex is in her opinion which he does not deny in his second scene. "The whole bloody time".
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