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1) Luke wears a white tunic with sandy beige pants for the majority of ANH, a gray shirt with gray pants for the majority of ESB (with the ice planet gear and occasional muscle shirt thrown in for good measure), and primarily wears black throughout ROTJ. Oh, and at one point or another he wore the orange Rebel pilot gear in all three films and once disguised himself as a storm trooper (did anyone notice that the black hood and robe he wears when he enters Jabba's palace in ROTJ makes him kind of look like the Emperor?).
2) Han Solo generally wore white shirts black vests or a dark blue jacket, black boots, blue dockers with red stripes on the side or brown dockers with yellow stripes on the side. And, like Luke, he once disguised himself as a storm trooper.
3) Princess Leia primarily wore white throughout the first two films (sign of virginity?). She wore a white dress in ANH, a white jumpsuit for most of ESB [briefly wore what looked like a brown dress], started off with a stolen bounty hunter costume then wore almost nothing for about 15-20 minutes in the 3rd film (I'd rather not think about what Jabba the Hutt might have done to her beyond the licking) and then branched out into some different military clothes and some stuff the Ewoks presumably stitched up for her (end of the virginity?).
4) Obi-Wan Kenobi wore homely a hooded brown robe, faded white & beige clothing with brown boots and a utility belt.
5) Chewbacca wore nothing except for the metal thing with the pouch he slung over his shoulder.
6) Lando Calrissian is introduced wearing a light blue tunic with dark blue dockers and a cape in ESB; for a brief moment at the end of the film, he can be seen wearing a white shirt with a black vest ala Han Solo. In ROTJ he is disguised as one of Jabba's guards and then gets a beige shirt with light blue pants and a gray cape for the assualt on the Death Star.
7) Darth Vader & the Emperor always wore black.
8) Those extras who were not Imperial officers, stormtroopers or Rebels all wore various different low budget costumes.
In the prequels, the bigger budget seems to equal a wider variety of wardrobe, at least for some characters, certainly for Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman)
. The Jedi - Obi-Wan, Anakin, Mace, Yoda and all the rest - have fairly simple wardrobes that consist of tunics, baggy pants, shin long boots, and homely robes with utility belts. The Senators all wear what look like extensions of the ceremonial robes worn by the Emperors of Greece, Rome and various French and English rulers. But then we get to Padme and her wardrobe is overly complex; she goes through a couple of different get ups in PM - most of which look like extensions of Japanese imperial stylings - and I was inclined to tolerate them because she was an "elected queen" (????), and there's a bit of a stigma that queens are required to have ridiculous wardrobes, yet she still has various wardrobe changes in AOTC where she is only a "senator", and you'd think a senator wouldn't have the same tailor as a queen. Aside from not looking very Japanese, one big difference in Padme's AOTC wardrobe is that almost all of it is either strapless, backless, gutless, or in some way serves to make her out to be almost every adolescent boy's romanticized ideal of a what a young woman should look and dress like - in this case, she is the romanticized ideal of Anakin Skywalker, the would be masochistic rapist/future tyrant of the universe. Even if Anakin is a psycho, how cruel is it to give him a speech on resisting forbidden love/lust when you're wearing leather? And she follows it up with a somewhat revealing, silky white nightgown. I mean, what is this woman trying to do to the future Vader? He's already unstable enough as it is, she's gotta flaunt being all shapely and cute around him? Then for the desert scenes Padme's wearing white. Though it looks a bit more normal than her more ornate dresses, it kind of makes her stand out against all the beige of the desert and the darkness of the cave (Anakin blends in slightly better because he's wearing brown, albeit dark brown). Then her white clothes get torn at the gut and the back to show off her abs. After a while I kind of felt like George Lucas and his costumers were pushing too hard to make us find Padme attractive/beautiful/cute/sexy/desirable/lust-worthy or whatever.
Somehow I always thought the mother of Princess Leia would have had a more sensible and pragmatic/practical wardrobe. What say you all to this mindless rant? And if this was already covered in Chefelf's lists of reasons to hate the prequels, I'm sorry for wasting your time.
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