POISON FOR THE FAIRIES (1984)

Sometimes it's easy to look at the costumes of a film analytically and determine exactly how the choices are working to build chacterization visually, or how specific costumes relate to a character's emotional arc.... and sometimes it might just be looking at pretty clothes. Poison For The Fairies falls into the latter for me - if there's a significant subtext to the costumes, I'm not picking up on it. You could probably work and angle on the contrast between the brightly colored, girlishly innocent visuals and the darker thematic elements of the script, but I don't know if there's enough of a conscious effort to make that argument. For me, you don't always need a ton of hidden meaning to validate and aesthetic choice. Sometimes it's okay to be pretty for the sake of being pretty.

Um, enough pontificating - Poison For The Fairies is super pretty, let's celebrate that: