While she was inspired by galore '90s teen comedies that Do Revenge pays homage to, costume decorator Alana Morshead cited Jawbreaker as her main notation point, highlighting the "bold colors" of the 1999 movie arsenic a important constituent erstwhile it came to dressing the main radical of girls.

But Morshead wanted to marque definite she kept the costumes relatable to this movie's audience. 

"Even though the costumes are precise agleam and immoderate are implicit the top, they inactive consciousness realistic," she explained. "I didn't privation to spell mode excessively charactery wherever it was astir comedic, wherever it's like, 'No 1 would truly deterioration that.' So it was uncovering that enactment of being thing fashion-forward and innovative but besides thing you would deterioration out."

At first, the filmmakers weren't definite they were going to person the characters deterioration uniforms, but it was a sartorial determination Morshead pushed for due to the fact that "there's thing astir backstage schoolhouse uniforms that instantly takes you into this clique-y, elite, mean miss vibe."

Morshead's precedence was to marque definite the schoolhouse ensembles were conscionable arsenic dynamic arsenic the looks being served extracurricular of school, explaining, "It was keeping it connected the aforesaid level due to the fact that we spot them astatine schoolhouse truthful much."

To marque definite the uniforms inactive highlighted the idiosyncratic styles of each character, Morshead utilized accessories, including socks, jewelry and nail polish to differentiate the looks. 

And a large inspiration for Morshead was the capes and berets worn by students successful South Korea, though she tweaked the benignant for a functional reason fixed the movie's setting.

"Those references I found, they were much applicable due to the fact that they were wool and they were for warmth," she explained. "I loved that look, truthful I said, 'How could I usage that but marque it Miami?' Let's marque it a precise bladed cloth and pastels."

The biggest situation for Morshead was having to formal hundreds of extras in "huge" scenes, including location parties and schoolhouse events—especially erstwhile her monolithic bid of the uniforms from overseas arrived conscionable days earlier filming began due to COVID-19-related shipping delays.

"I didn't person a backup, truthful I conscionable truly took a gamble," she admitted, adding that her squad besides handmade galore of the pieces seen successful the movie, including the berets, capes, sweaters and skirts.

"It's a ton of pieces for truthful galore people," she said. "I wanted to marque capable to where, erstwhile we saw the group, it had extent to it. It wasn't each level and precisely the same."

Well, Camila Mendes is decidedly not in Riverdale anymore, with Morshead uncovering inspiration from '90s supermodel style—namely Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista successful George Michael's "Freedom" euphony video—to trade her quality Drea's agleam and bold look. 

"It's the large hairsbreadth and the immense earrings and the acheronian constitution and everything is precise abbreviated and tight," Morshead said. "I was keeping her successful much blues and purples and a cooler palette."

For Eleanor's makeover, Morshead wanted to marque definite she didn't marque the quality "a mini-Drea." Instead, she noted, it was "really playing off" Stranger Things prima Maya Hawke's vibe: "She's precise laidback, chill, California."

So Morshead opted for a "mod '60s" vibe, uncovering inspiration from Twiggy and a young Goldie Hawn.

"It's a warmer tone, much the mustards and burnt oranges and reds," she explained. "Drea wasn't making her implicit into a clone of herself. She was making her into what she believed would beryllium the champion mentation for Eleanor."

Morshead's favourite outfit for Eleanor was a matching wide and chapeau look from Miracle Eye, a family-run Latina concern based successful L.A.

"I truly would conscionable scour Instagram for autarkic brands and female-founded companies," she said. "There are truthful galore of them successful the movie, which is truthful chill due to the fact that present they are getting highlighted."

Morshead created Drea and Eleanor's standout looks for the movie's climactic Admissions Party.

"We wanted that to beryllium ace special," she explained. I knew it would beryllium astatine nighttime and determination would beryllium fire, lights and a crowd. So however bash we get them to basal retired from a assemblage that's besides going to beryllium truly dressed up? I wanted thing that could truly reflect."

An representation of Carla Bruni became the inspiration for Drea's greenish iridescent gown, which had a astonishing plan constituent added to it. "My assistant costume decorator introduced maine to the quality proviso stores successful Atlanta," Morshead said, "which are unthinkable and the chains connected those dresses are really 2 belts that were $1.50 each."

When it came to Eleanor, "I loved the thought of an androgynous oversized suit," Morshead noted. "She's inactive conscionable excessively chill to beryllium like, 'I'm going to get a formal oregon gown.' Like, of people she's wearing a chill suit and tin propulsion it off."

"I retrieve I woke up 1 time and was like, 'Orange zippers. I request to marque thing with orangish zippers,'" she continued. "I went to the cloth store and I bought 75 orangish pants zippers and we sewed them each unneurotic and past wrapped it astir and made it benignant of a corset top."

But the agleam lamé cloth was a gamble, Morshead admitting, 'A lot of radical were like, 'I don't know, Alana.' And I was like, 'I know, it could beryllium terrible. But let's conscionable bash it, we request to effort it!' Of course, we did it and we were like, 'This is it!'"

The boys in Do Revenge are conscionable arsenic fashion-forward arsenic the ladies, particularly Max (Austin Abrams), Drea's ex-boyfriend. Harry Styles was "all implicit the temper board" for the character, Morshead revealed, explaining that she wanted to update the archetype of what the astir fashionable feline successful schoolhouse would look similar successful 2022 in examination to teen movies of the past. 

"He's wearing a pearl necklace oregon he's got an earring oregon nail polish," she said. "Back then, possibly helium would've been made amusive of. Now, highlighting being yourself is cool."

As for Russ (Rish Shah), Dre's alternate blue-haired emotion interest, playing up the opposition betwixt the unexpected mates was key.

"We really wanted to abstracted him from the radical and the school," Morshead said. "I conscionable emotion however other Drea helium is and it makes it truthful overmuch sweeter that they would ne'er deliberation to beryllium with each different conscionable by looks oregon schoolhouse status. But astatine the extremity of the day, it doesn't substance what you deterioration and who you bent retired with."

Finally, Outer Banks star Jonathan Daviss' idiosyncratic benignant was the inspiration for his character, Elliot, Morshead opting for agleam and flowing fabrics. "He's conscionable the coolest," she explained. "Like, Jonathan didn't request much. So conscionable highlighting his effortless benignant and past bringing the Miami successful with loose, unfastened shirts."

To acceptable the chill clique of girls isolated from the remainder of the stylish precocious schoolhouse groups, Morshead paid homage to Grease's Pink Ladies by having Tara (Alisha Boe), Meghan (Paris Berelc) and Montana (Maia Reficco) deterioration matching jackets.

The metallic pastel numbers were custom-made for the movie by The Mighty Company, a female-owned concern successful L.A., and Morshead wanted each quality to have her ain color.

"I conscionable ideate each miss being like, 'I privation I could deterioration that jacket,'" she admitted.

Cult favourite Sarah Michelle Gellar plays the badass (and well-dressed!) schoolhouse principal, a fitting homage to her iconic crook arsenic Kathryn successful Cruel Intentions. And getting to enactment with the prima was "definitely an 'Oh gosh!' moment" for Morshead.

"The 2nd I walked in, she was truthful welcoming. She truly respects the trade and she's conscionable specified a pro," the costume decorator said. "We had a truly bully clip creating this quality wherever she acceptable into the schoolhouse but she wasn't wearing thing that wasn't realistic. Her and Drea person immoderate beauteous aggravated moments, truthful I didn't privation to distract from that by having her deterioration thing crazy. We kept it truly cleanable and sleek and precise chic."

The astir important point of covering successful the movie is arguably the customized formal worn by Oscar Winner Olivia Colman, Eleanor's favored bearded dragon. But Morshead revealed the scene-stealer wasn't successful the archetypal script.

"I retrieve getting a substance from the adjunct manager being like, 'We're going to person a bearded dragon and we're going to request a dress,'" Morshead recalled. "I was like, ‘What?!' It was specified a weird, comic substance to get."

In bid to marque the dress, Morshead received a photograph of the carnal lying down adjacent to a portion measurement to get the due proportions. "We were like, 'OK, truthful let's marque immoderate teensy clothes,'" she said with a laugh. "Olivia was a full pro and not a diva."