#i wouldn't care if like only one of the outfits were heavily matchy bc Stella wanted them all to match or something. that could be cute af

[charmixpower]

I think it's fine if the girls exchange colors of patterns or used things that are the signature of the other, because in real life nobody use only the same color and pattern for every single day of their life, and friends don't really go like "I can't use hearts because thats Bloom things" or "I can't use yellow because that is Stella color", and besties love to have matching things

Yellow has never been Stella's color but

I'm not gonna bitch that Flora wears a heart once, or that Musa has flowers on her cheongsam

I'm bitching because all of them are wearing the exact same pattern and exact same color which feels out of character in a show that had fashion designers come on to give each of the girls their own unique style. It just feels insulting to the audience for me to believe that they'd all decide to do that

The other thing is, it's a cartoon. No one wears the exact same outfit every single day they do something and yetttt

In drawn visual media colors and symbols become a part of a perticualr characters identity. It's part of how you recognize things related to them in a visual media. Take the Believix wings for example, those beauties only work because each girl is associated with a perticualr symbol

I don't perticually care if a character isn't wearing their assigned colors in every outfit, I'm glad they don't. I do care if they're all wearing fucking pink, because that destroys the purpose of using color strategically in visual media

I like seeing Tecna in blue, Flora in orange and red, Aisha yellow ect ect. I have no problem with color swapping, but the symbol swapping is a bit different. They're symbols are in their wings to their fairy dust charms. It's just apart of the character designs at this point and ignoring all of them so they all look like something out of Bloom's closet is annoying as fuck

Finally, the matching thing :///

Matching pajamas we're they're all in pink and have hearts, matching disco outfits where the color purple returns with a vengance, the horrible matching band outfits that don't look like anything most of them would wear, the matching cafe outfits when pink bites back, the matching salior outfits, the flower princess thing, their swimsuits all being the exact same style bottoms, the god forsaken ballet outfits where all the outfits nearly have the same silhouette??

This isn't best friends matching anymore, this is the designers either getting lazy or deciding the Winx club are all the same girl and should dress to this fact accordingly

I mean just look at older seasons. Dance class? Horrible and tacky, but by God they weren't all wearing the same style of puffy skirt. S3 Disco had them all wearing completely different outfits that look nothing like eachother outside of a vauge 70s~60s theme. Almost like the designers were aware they're different people who don't dress the exact same. They're early seasons pajamas never matched, neither did their bathing suits. But now they do

And if your wondering why this bothers me so much it's because fashion informs the characters. If a character is wearing something you can assume they like it, which is a form a characterization. If they're all wearing the same thing in different colors, what does that say about their personalities?

#i wouldn't care if like only one of the outfits were heavily matchy bc Stella wanted them all to match or something. that could be cute af #but its like every fucking outfit and it drives me up a goddamn wall #i mean i would be weird i Batman started dressing like a different animal no? bats are his symbol. that is more extreme but ya know #im not mad btw #just passionate about character design and visual story telling. its the reason i draw in the first place ndjdjd #winx club #rus chatters #asks #winx season 5 #long post #oh and im like 70% sure i have undiagnosed ocd. so i do take the colors and the symbols more seriously than your average person #so that might be useful to keep in mind