 |
|
3.1.16.5 Uniforms.
** Anything unusual in Jackson's use of uniforms?
No. School uniforms have been discussed previously (see 3.1.5.5) in terms of the
ways they are used in real life by real students. Jackson also used uniforms as a way of
showing the importance of school in the girls' lives--most scenes in the first half of the
film have the girls in their school uniforms even though they are hardly shown in school.
Uniforms are used as a symbol of social pressures to conform, yet the girls are shown
slipping out of the confining bounds of society, dressed in uniform but not bound by
convention. Pauline's school uniform gradually becomes more confining and oppressive,
however, and her appearance more sloppy and rebellious. And the rigid conformity shown by
the 'uniforms' in Digby's is a reminder to Pauline and to us that the real world doesn't
give up the fight easily.
