We need every single punchy, colorful, perfectly coordinated outfit, ASAP.
Jawbreaker, the 1999 Heathers-inspired high school satire, celebrates its 20th anniversary today. A critical failure that's gone on to become a cult favorite, the film is most notable for its perfectly coordinated and colorful fashions. Jawbreaker's far-fetched plot of devious high school girls and the fallout from a prank that leaves one of their clique dead makes for a pitch-black comedy wrapped in candy colors, and fashion is essential to the devious onscreen world.
The bad girl friend group of Courtney , Foxy , and Julie strut the hallways in punchy, colorful, perfectly coordinated outfits. Like in so many high school movies, their friendship seems defined not by mutual feelings or kindness but a desire to outfit themselves in complementary looks.
Many of the outfits have a kitschy late-'50s/early-'60s vibe. A quick shot reveals the girls' back-seam stockings, and Courtney wears short-sleeve sweaters and headbands that wouldn't be out of place on a stylish sitcom wife of the era.Fashion is used as an obvious device in Jawbreaker, never more so than with the character of Fern Mayo . Fern is a goody-goody in terribly unflattering baggy pants and drab cardigans.
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