Sirius and those bikini posters

[sunnyskywalker]

For a long time, I saw Sirius’s posters of Muggle women in bathing suits as a typical teen thing, with irritating his parents by sticking the posters on permanently (permanently for wizards with no imagination, anyway) as a bonus. But I wasn’t giving him enough credit. The girlie posters are direct threat the to entire value system and prestige of

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[with_rainfall]

Catching up, but I wonder what the magical equivalent of half-naked women would even look like. Are there witches - or wizards for that matter - who would agree to be photographed, or are they all just paintings? What would they be dressed in - short robes? Would they be Veela? Does the WW sell girlie pictures? Is there a black market of Muggle girlie mags running?

Yeah, I always thought Sirius’s flying motorcycle was part of this too. All his ideas of cool are straight out of the Muggle 80s - motorcycle, leather jacket, posters. I’m surprised he didn’t have a Metallica record lying around somewhere. It was a very conscious rebellion against everything his family stood for.

[chantaldormand]

Before the movies, school robes were supposed to be worn without anything under. I always imagined them to be more on baggy side- especially since all students were hesitant to be the first to go up the ladder to Divination class :D

I imagine the more tasteful mags (if wizards have those) would have more form-fitting robes with scandalous cuts on sides and perhaps- oh my- visible ankles :D

Rowling probably sat down and made mood-board of cool 80s uncle when she was creating Sirius.

[sunnyskywalker]

I would so love to see a filmed version where they dress the way the books nearly always say they do. (That's one of the only fun parts of Rowling's website--the drawings commissioned for a lot of her ramblings show the clothing much closer to how it sounds in the books, and it's fun.) Draco's dress robes supposedly made him look like a vicar, and it's probably safe to assume that his robes are good traditional wizarding style, so "cassock-like" is probably a good starting point. Whitehound reposted one of Rowling's own drawings of some of the characters, including one in school robes, which supports that.

Which is to say that I can totally see those magazines with scandalously tight, short robes ;-)

Sirius is lucky he didn't go to prison later in the '80s or he might have had acid-washed jeans and a permed mullet.

[chantaldormand]

I can understand why film-makers changed HP's cast wardrobe. I don't think I could take seriously the movies if they actually had the cast walking around in baggy robes and somehow not tripping while evading Hogwarts' hazardous construction quirks.

/Sirius is lucky he didn't go to prison later in the '80s or he might have had acid-washed jeans and a permed mullet./

Or animal print clothes *shudders*.
Although Sirius would totally rock non-permed mullet.

[sunnyskywalker]

Velour tracksuit! So many possibilities.

Given the way wizards adapt Muggle trends, like Fudge's pinstriped robes and lime-green bowler hat, there could totally be wizards and witches who wore acid-washed denim robes over their hot pink leg-warmers. Maybe with a leopard print headband or scrunchie for their hair.