Thursday, November 09, 2006

Clothing or Role of Female Disney Characters

After doing some major Google research on the female characters of some of my most beloved Disney movies I agree there are differences in clothing styles. Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, and Sleeping Beauty are all dressed as proper women and very covered up. Belle is dressed in more common every day clothing until the end when she is dressed up for the ball with the Beast, but she is still covered except for her shoulders and that was the style of dresses back then. The other characters are in proper dresses for most of the movie. On the other hand Jasmine and Pocahontas were both in much more revealing outfits. Jasmine wears pretty much just a bra with little puffs on her biceps, her stomach is shows, and then she wears three-quarter length puffy pants. Pocahontas wears a dress that has a strap on one shoulder then angles down and stops above her knees. Both of these characters are from different cultures than the other Disney characters and I think this has to do with their lack of clothing. Jasmine is the most provocative clothing because she is not covered on top and her stomach shows, while Pocahontas is a little revealing on top and has a short dress. I think that since Pocahontas is technically American, because she is an Indian and they occupied America first, she is more covered than Jasmine. As I looked at more recent movies such as the new Tarzan and Mulan the clothing seems to be under control. Mulan is covered in every scene even when she is not acting like a man, and on top of that she is a foreign woman, yet Disney did not dress her in exotic clothing. In Tarzan, Jane, is also a proper English woman with a hat to top it off and even a tie. Of course she is the damsel in distress, but she is a more outspoken women and does not need to lean on a guy while at the end she does get saved by Tarzan and ends up staying with Tarzan in the jungle. I think we should be more concerned with the parts the women play in the cartoons rather than the clothing, because Pocahontas and Jasmine are mainly the only characters that are provocatively dressed.

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