That is not a dress, she smirks.
Shes wearing a bathing suit.
(Abbys wearing a demure, ankle-skimming maxi.)
Meghann Fahy’s Merritt Monaco inThe Perfect Couple.
Thethem, in this case, isold-moneyWASP.
Youve heard it before: The clothes make the man.
Yet, inThe Perfect Coupleand pop culture, its never felt more relevant.
Dakota Fanning’s character, the snobby Abby Winbury, knows the importance of a robe.
The most obvious outsider isMerritt, the mistress of family patriarch Tag Winbury.
That Missoni dresswhich she wears through pretty much the entire seriesis, sure, expensive.
Yet, its not the rightkindof expensive.
Nicole Kidman as Greer Winbury in The Perfect Couple—she loves a silk blouse.
Dakota Fannings character, the snobby Abby Winbury, knows the importance of a robe.
The whole reason to do it outside here was because of the fucking hydrangeas.)
Now, Greer looks great.
Yasmin Kara-Hanani inIndustry,who often wears trench coats (including one from Burberry)
But she never looks comfortable or natural.
Suddenly, her overdressed, overcompensating aesthetic makes sense.
The Perfect Coupleisnt the only show using clothes to send subtle signals about class.
Robert and Sir Henry, after the trip.
Youre not here to fix the lights, he says.
(The designer style can retail up to 3,000 pounds.)
She doesnt need to earn money like Robert.
Harper in one of her much improved suits.
She already has it.
In season two, Robert is, yes, wearing an appropriate suit.
I just got it.
Yasmin, however, does several lines of coke in a Saint Laurent dress.
Even when it comes to psychedelic trips, there is an appropriate attire that certain characters seem to intuit.
The financial ascension and fitting in of Harper, too, is reflected in what she wears.
Television characters may not always be wearing hearts on their sleeves.
Recently, it seems like they do.
