![]() Wallace's outfit with this licensed costume.īased on Quentin Tarantino's classic film, Pulp Fiction, this Mia Wallace costume comes with everything you need to portray Uma Thurman's character. Are you planning to step into the role of Mia? Now, you can have Mrs. That's why she dresses with such a style that accentuates her status as a deadly femme fatale, while still feeling completely natural to her character. That's why she has such decisive style that combines simplicity with elegance. ![]() After all, she's the only woman who could tame the crime lord of L.A., Marsellus Wallace and a vapid woman with no opinion about things definitely couldn't keep him on the line. Mia Wallace is the kind of woman who knows exactly what she wants. I want that trophy, so dance good.” - Mia Wallace, Pulp Fiction So if the first button was placed a bit lower, which worked with that accentuated collar, we might catch a glimpse of the bandeau top underneath, so that when he rips her shirt off, the audience won't subconsciously think, 'Oh great, they put something on underneath so we don't see her bra.' In other words, there was a method to my madness.“I do believe Marsellus Wallace, my husband, your boss, told you to take ME out and do WHATEVER I WANTED. ![]() Sometimes we work backwards-and we have to make it all look real. Because later Vincent's gonna rip that shirt off and plunge the needle into her.Īs the costume designer, you know everything that's gonna happen. So I envisioned her sitting there having the milkshake with Vincent, being a little seductive with that black wig-Quentin's vision was that Mia would look like the old silent movie star, which she very much did, of course-and I'm thinking, 'Well, you want a little cleavage.' We also want to see, if it happens naturally, the bandeau top underneath. Those are the parameters I was working with. She's the boss's wife-a do-not-touch item-and yet, she's hot and a bit of a bad girl. I wanted there to be this tension because we know that Marsellus is a scary guy. The whole thing was my custom design: the larger collar and long cuffs feminized the look, as did the suppressed waist. So I cut the pants off, which made them hers, as opposed to what was out there, and then I just put these gold Chanel slippers on her feet to accentuate the fact that she was the mob boss's wife.Īs for the white shirt, it was a version of a man's shirt that we made a little bit sexier. You know, I kind of brought back the cropped pant-or rather, reinvented the cropped pant, because they weren't in fashion at that time. I said, 'Well, let's just cut them off,' and make a proportional statement. All of the black trousers that I liked were a little bit short, so I made the executive decision. We had no money, as usual, on Pulp Fiction, and Uma's very tall. I think Mia's look was true to the iconic history of broads in movies, and of femme fatales in movies. Think back to the fact that she wore those very tailored suits-just like the men. ![]() You know, I think that Lauren Bacall was a Reservoir Dog, in her own right. I created the look for that movie, too, and then mentioned to Quentin-and he agreed with me-that Vince and Jules were both Reservoir Dogs. The culture and history behind these films started with Reservoir Dogs. "First of all, Mia Wallace is a female version of a Reservoir Dog. Below, costume designer Betsy Heimann, in her own words, tells us why, precisely, she chose that outfit: Twenty years ago today, Mia Wallace, the idling, bored, chemically dependent wife to Ving Rhames' kingpin, Marsellus Wallace, took to the dance floor with Vincent Vega (John Travolta) for one of the most off-putting-yet-hypnotic dance montages in cinema history. In a new weekly series, Why That Outfit, explores the psychological underpinnings (and on-set backstories) behind some of film and television's most inexplicably iconic looks. Some outfits stick with us long after the closing credits.
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