Bridget Jones’s wardrobe

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Watched this last night. Thought film was very ‘meh’ but that’s beside the point. What I really noticed was how awful Bridget’s wardrobe was. I’m no fashion queen by any stretch, but I thought she looked incredibly old fashioned. Awful floral dresses and tired ugly black ankle boots. And the hair? I just wanted to douse her in conditioner. Is it just me?

I haven’t seen this yet but I read an article online on how to get Bridget’s wardrobe as worn in the film and I couldn’t get over how dowdy and boring it all looked.

Honestly, it looked very Daily Mail circa 2005!

She's playing a character, BJ has never been polished, always misses the mark with clothes/hair. I think that's what makes her likeable and relatable

It's just part of her character.

The "frazzled english woman" look is a very "in" aesthetic at the minute. Look it up on pinterest. I love it but dress dowdy anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️

Well, yes. That's her character. Her character isn't stylish therefore why would her costumes be stylish?

She always dressed like that.

Several of her items of clothing were old ones from previous films.
It seemed to be part of her character. A widow with 2 young children buying new clothes for herself might have been far down her priority list.

She's a widow with two kids and she's never been very organised or "put together". It's suitable for her character and situation.

OP I thought the same. Her outfits were very odd and didn't seem to represent any particular fashion point in time. As previous posters said she seemed to be wearing the same stuff she was wearing at 35 but I don't think it was fashionable then? It was all very mismatched but not in a cool way. I assumed the short skirt was a nod to Daniel Cleaver's comments re her short skirt in the first film.

I was also a bit distracted by her walking. Sadly I've actually been googling RZ walking trying to work out if she was doing it for the film or that is her natural way of walking? In BJ she sort of totters but as if she's had a back injury and is now wearing a brace. Looks very unnatural and totally unnecessary if put on.

I thought in the first BJ book she had nice clothes, didn't she? She wasn't overweight, but was obsessed with her weight.

@CountTo10 , we watched the mini series What/If recently and she was doing the BJ shuffle/plod in parts so I suspect it may be her natural walk irl or very dodgy acting!

The walk was far worse than the clothes

Oh good, won't have to try to fit in!

Yes, I thought the character was supposed to always miss the mark, that's the bit she finds insurmountable, that's the story.

I really liked her style better than the film

I'm going to see this on Friday and from comments I rather suspect she's going to look like 'me' - will report back

It's part of her character, as PP have said; she's also meant to be someone who last felt really confident some time ago, and is clinging, in her fragile, lonely state, to clothes that used to suit her, and made her happy, and feel like 'her'. The joke about that see-through top making a reappearance is that that's what she wore the last time she went on a date - it's been that long. Her wardrobe slowly gets better as she steps into the new phase of her life, and works out who she is now.

To be honest, I rather identified with the 'dragging things out of the wardrobe and realising you bought them in 2006' feeling. I'm Bridget's age and it's taken me a while to get my head around the fact that I've got coats older than my stepchildren or in her case, toyboy.

I thought the clothes were spot-on! The Levi 501s was a nice touch, and wheeling out the ‘dress, boots and denim jacket’ look was what she thought would pass as young and cute for a date. I thought it was quite sweet!

I thought she was intended to be stuck in the past. Look on Style and Beaty anda the style rut comes up regularly.

Also the short skirt and ankle boots show off Zelwegger's excellent legs and ankles, which is part pf the point.

It was her hair that did my head in, that it would always look so messy, not about not being styled, but unbrushed.