Wish List for Season 9

[A Cousin]

(06-07-2010 08:19 PM)Naivety Wrote:  I'd like to see Ruth wear her old necklace again, and wear the same sort of clothes as she wore in the bus scene. Longer skirts, bohemian type tops, that sort of thing.

I liked her pre-5.5 wardrobe better as well. It was softer and more overt: bonkers, if you will.

Wardrobe choices are never an accident though. She is still wearing long, flowing skirts and tunics, but the color palate has changed considerably: from bonkers yet brilliant reds to cool and collected blues. She is also not wearing prints anymore. Nothing that will make her stand out. I think that with her subdued wardrobe in S8, they are trying to reflect the change in her state of mind, maturity and experience. She is not the same person that left in 5.5. I will be curious to see if her wardrobe changes as she rediscovers her equilibrium on the grid.

They may also be trying to equalize the age difference between Harry and Ruth. Not that I have ever objected to it, but it felt a lot broader in S5 and prior than it does in S8.