The Costumes of Once Upon A Time

I am a huge fan of ABC's hit fantasy drama show Once Upon a Time, in fact it is probably my top rated show in all history.

One of the bonus' to o.u.a.t are the exquisite costumes meticulously designed and made by Eduardo Castro (emmy nominee) and his 'magical' team. So I decided to make this post.

I decided to put together some of my favourites including some other miscellaneous costumes.    



The Costumes of Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard

Eduardo said he tried to keep a romanticism to Snow White and uses bright colours for both her and the counterpart Mary Margaret to symbolize and portray the purity they have. He has successfully executed this style as we can tell from this beautiful white gown with a bird or dove like feather style on it.

This is almost definitely a fan favourite as it is 'Bandit Snow's'. It has a host of cream/beige different fabrics including fur and white sleeves again reflecting the purity. This is more flexible and not as tight and fancy so that it is perfect for 'Bandit Snow'.
       

This costume was created for Snow's council for season two. This outfit is practical yet regal and definitely has the romanticism Eduardo talks of. I especially like the white puffed sleeves and the quilted fabric that I heard has the shorofsky beading on it. (This is a personal favourite costume of mine.)       

This is the first thing that we see Mary Margaret wear but it looks really good with her blouse (and she usually wears a blouse or beret) and patterns at the top.
  I love this classy outfit as it really portrays the sweet, benign character of Mary Margaret and again she wears a blouse this time a hot pink.

      I just think this outfit is amazing and I love this baby/soft shade of blue and you can see the lovely matching hat and gloves.

  
The Costumes of Prince Charming/David Nolan 
Eduardo and his team really captured the chivalry and honor possessed by Prince Charming and this regal red doublet is certainly not an exception here. On the blood red doublet you can see the lovely swarovski beading that makes these stunning patterns.

        I adore this princely get-up which is seen only at the Prince's wedding. It has a lovely velvet like quality to it and works very well with Josh Dallas who plays Charming on o.u.a.t.

     This doublet is a common piece for Charming to wear whilst on his many old adventures and is another of these fan favourites. I love the brown and black leather and how it contrasts to the maroon cape with the lovely fur.

      Zach Van Norman from Once Upon a Fan said that he has a theory that as Charming is nearly always wearing red and David is nearly always wearing blue it symbolises how Charming is stronger and also more chivalrous as red is a much stronger colour than blue (usually is). This leather jacket looks very good and suits David's fairly 'cool' personality, the blue checkered shirt with the grey/blue t-shirt and jeans reminds me of the nineties as men use to wear lots of big loose-fitting shirts with patterns like the checkered one we see here(,this fits in the stuck in time ongoing theme that's in Storybrooke). This reminds me  of something I would wear myself, maybe not the leather jacket though.

Other Miscellaneous Costumes in o.u.a.t


Robin Hood and Marian Flashback Costumes 
         




















I love these two costumes and how they are wearing these gorgeous doublets with matching cloth capes(perfect for an honorable bandit).




Here is the classic red leather jacket, arguably the centerpiece costume for the show, first seen in the pilot. It is simple but works so well.
 
Less well known I still love this blue leather jacket and notice Emma wears darker royal costumes than her parents.



This is another of my favourite costumes and blue is my favourite colour. I love how it sort of takes after her father as far as it being an aged, awesome doublet and the amazing gloves but has a sweet pure touch to it as we can see from the sleeves like her mother Snow. This shows us that we are dealing with a strong, independent young woman but she's still sweet and friendly and on the kind of good spectrum. Notice this looks similar to Marian's costume I showed you just earlier. (scroll up to see.)





     I love this regal look that Rumple shows of here. This gold piece is one I wish we got to see more of.

I love this outfit and I do notice Regina/The Evil Queen (or ex evil queen) has some amazing costumes the're just not always my favourites but I do love them especially this one. If I did not put at least one Regina costume on this blog post I think you might just all want to kill me. This beautiful riding outfit is extremely regal and very elegant (not to mention deliciously evil), the blood/royal red is very good and striking to you and the curved huge hat with the feather just makes this get-up amazing and finishes it off to perfection.

Here is the costume design hand drawn by Eduardo Castro.






















Last but not least is Regina's young outfit which has this sea foam or baby blue which is so lovely and suits the innocence of young regina played by the fantastic Lana Parrilla. It was actually said by Regina in a season four episode 21 'mother'    that baby blue is her favourite colour.




 I love this fashionable costume and Eduardo himself said that Aurora's dress was their "homage to modern couture" and it is in many, many ways but still manages to have a fairy-tale/fantasy or period look to it just not as prominently as some of the others.