Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes

As technology increases and our skills of manufacturing enhance, our imperfections of the past are looked at in a whole new way. While visiting, The Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television, at the California museum in Sacramento demonstrated how our society has changed classic images. While touring through the exhibit looking back on all our old favorite heroes and movie characters costumes, we can see how simple yet wonderful these costumes were. By taking a comparison of Robin’s costume from the first Batman movie and comparing it to the newest one, a great deal of change has taken place through the decades. Although fashion has improved in design and function ability our past creations and icons can never be taken granted for. Because of the image of certain icons creators know that our perceptions of heroes and even side kicks will always bring us back to our favorite childhood characters. As most of us know in the begging Robin, Batman’s sidekick wore a black mask and a red shirt for the top along with green tights and green sleeves. While using complimentary colors for his outfit designer’s help gear our memories toward Robin when we see an outfit that resembles such colors. Although the old and new costumes are constructed differently, our perception of the design creates a symbol that is engraved into the society’s minds.