this isn't a reupload 😭😭😭😭 i've just mentioned it in almost every other disney video i've ever made so i thought it was time it got its own video (plus i was tired of commenting the same 4 points to the ppl disagreeing with me in the comments) 😂
I agree!, BECAUSE in the 1950s the dress was very blindingly white, not even silver(I know it's cannon, but the high exposure of films back then, gurl) 👓
It’s blue in the “Disney universe” and in other movies because a silver dress looks like a wedding dress. If you make dolls or dresses for children in the real world if will more often then not come off looking like a wedding dress, that is why Disney marketed it as blue. Just like when they marketed sleeping beauty in the pink dress not the blue ( even though she wears the blue dress a lot more than the pink one in the movie) that’s because Disney made the colour blue associated with cinderella 😄 so really it has to do with how they can sell the merchandise😆 atleast that is what I have learnt ( I’m going animation right now, but I guess it could be wrong. 😆🙃😁)
I agree; I adore the original white dress but that doesn't stop me from loving the live action version. I see the 2015 Cinderella more as a reimagining of the original; they took inspiration from the 1950 film, but really it's just a different version of Cinderella that exists in its own right.
Exactly! Blue is one of my favorite color but seriously how many blue sparkling dresses have you seen in your lifetime? Now how about a Silver ( not metallic color silver but a white-ish silver like the fairy godmother’s dress in the 2015 Cinderella) dress with glitter and sparkle. Just one word that describes it’s beautifully and accurately to me is..... ✨Ethereal ✨
Yeah, it especially sucks now, because Sleeping Beauty’s dress had to change to pink to accommodate the already-false Cinderella color. It started a cycle of false colors 😭
One more Argument: In the original Grimm-Fairytale. She got three dresses: one silver, as the moon, one golden as the sun and one sparkly as starlight. No blue dress for Aschenputtel :)
@@jelliclelife My exact thought when reading this comment! Did you know that that movie is based on Charles Perrault's tale, which is also the author of Cinderella!
i actually read once that the dress was meant to be “glass-like,” similar to the slippers... a fantasy dress made of imaginary pixie dust and impossible glass! which is why the gown looks more blue in the nighttime as well, since glass reflects the surroundings! plus the explanations u gave but obvi the dress is silver💗💓
I’ve always been annoyed by this! Whoever thinks “kids won’t care” or “kids will be more attracted to her dress in blue” are wrong. I watched the movie a lot as a kid, and even back then it bugged me that her dress was blue on all the merch when it’s very clearly white/silver. (And on top of that, I always preferred Aurora in her royal blue dress than the bright pink they always have her in. It was blue for the majority of the time she wore the dress in the movie, including the spinning wheel scene and being woken by Philip. Give Aurora her blue dress and put Ariel back in the pastel pink).
Ariel looks adorable in the pink dress it really fits her. I don't know what the person above me is on at the moment but I always loved Ariel in that pink dress as a child, it made her look her age and not too mature or childish
@@bluenpurple2328 And it matches well with her hair. People say it doesn’t work because she’s a redhead, but it doesn’t clash for her because the dress is so light and her hair is so vibrantly red. Merida’s hair wouldn’t work with it, but Ariel’s does.
@@KeepCalmContemplateYourChoices Ariel is meant to look "horrible" in the Pink dress, it was her first human gown. It was supposed to symbolise how she didnt fit in because the Pink was meant to clash with her red hair :)
This confused me so much as a kid, because I always thought her dress wasn't that blue. It always looked like a really pale baby blue silvery color to me, and it makes more sense that the original color was silver. I feel like there were other ways Disney could have gone about marketing the dress so that it didn't look too wedding-y
I wonder about this. Disney didn't want to market Cinderella in silver because it looked like a wedding dress. But Disney seems perfectly willing to market Elsa in her white Snow Queen dress and sell said dress to little kids to wear as costumes.
@@Moonlitwatersofaqua its been many years, different people do the marketing and merchandising + character designs now. maybe they changed their mind or the silhouette of the dress is less traditionally wedding.
@@Moonlitwatersofaqua That's very true, I thought it was to do with the dress style. Cinderella's dress, if sold as the original white colour, would look like a traditional wedding dress due to the wide skirt design, while Elsa's white ice dress is sleeker and executes a more "snow-like" feeling, especially with the cape and diamond patterns on it.
@@charliebear_711 I kind of doubt the silhouette is the problem. Cinderella's dress is more of what we think of when we think wedding. However I have noticed that more sleeker silhouettes are much more in style this decade. I just remembered Anna has a white dress too and a few kids dresses of that one are sold too. I've been a bridesmaid in 3 weddings and the brides all chose silhouettes that were more similar to what Elsa and Anna wear than the traditionally big poofy princess dresses. Likewise Kate Middleton's and Meghan Markle's also look more like what the sisters wear. Actually thinking about it this way makes me understand why after Princess and the Frog Disney stopped putting their female leads in big poofy dresses.
*cinderella animators:* so we agree to shade this gorgeous sparkly silver magic-dust dress darker when she's in a darker environment? makes it more realistic, hope the viewers appreciate this. *viewers including future Disney:* oh yeaah wasn't her dress blue n boring? pass
You should check out Ultimate Fashion History's video on the dress. They go in depth about the color as well as silhouette ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aYFpVzkP3UM.html
Disney: We couldn't sell a princess wearing a gown similar to a wedding dress, it would be problematic Mattel, making milions of dollars by selling Barbies wearing wedding dresses for decades: allow me to introduce myself EDIT: since users are mentioning the carnival costumes - I can't see where the problem is; just make it glittery/glossy silver, trim it with tons of duo chrome sequins, and no one would think it's a wedding dress. Is all about hue and reflectiveness of the fabric. It's not that deep and no genius needed honestly. Also, white is not necessarily associated with wedding, is just - as usual - the umpteenth western archetype of it.
Will N Well yeah but traditionally wedding dresses are white so since Tiana’s dress is green it doesn’t really fit the image most western people have of a wedding gown, so to them it doesn’t look like one ig?? Idk. Personally I think if a kid wears a dress that looks like a wedding dress, since the person wearing it is a child, it doesn’t look like a wedding dress cause it’s a kid and I don’t see how anyone can look at a kid and go “yup, this kid is getting married!” like that’s crazy to me but ig Disney didn’t see it that way
Will N You have to consider the events you are talking about happened presumably not a long time ago, they made the decision to make Cinderella’s dress blue years and years ago, when it was probably more taboo, and now they can’t change it back cause it’ll confuse little girls
Will N I think you’re replying to the wrong person buddy, the person who said they changed it cause it looks like a wedding dress is the original poster. My comment was stating that _if_ they did change it cause it looked like a wedding dress, it wouldn’t be cause they don’t wanna sell dolls that look like they’re wearing wedding dresses it would be cause they don’t wanna sell costumes that look like wedding dresses to children.
Will N No, I meant the original poster of the comment was the one that said they changed it cause looked like a wedding gown so your comment should’ve been directed at them not me
it always irked me aurora didn’t have a blue dress just because at the end of the dance sequence when her and phillip are dancing into the clouds, just before the book closes, the last colour we see the dress as is blue, so it always just made sense to me for it to be blue. i’m pretty sure it’s blue when she meets her parents for the first time as well
Just pointing out more evidence: During the transformation scene, you can see the underskirt of her pink dress, it's white and when the transformation happens it barely changes color.
I’m making my daughter’s birthday dress and we’re doing a Cinderella party. I know her dress is silver but I’m so tempted to use dusty blue or periwinkle just for recognition. I’ve even debated layering silver and periwinkle tulle for the skirt. Also Cinderella is strawberry blond in the movie
Kingdom Hearts actually made Cinderella's dress white when they could have made it blue. They also made Aurora's dress blue instead of pink, seeing that her pink dress is more popular.
You are right! I love her hair color. I've heard it described as Titian Blonde or Squash Blonde (that description seems cute cause you could also call her hair pumpkin blonde) since it is a pale orange blonde.
I feel like you missed the most obvious explanation as to why her dress appears blue in the film: light refraction. As an artist, you need to understand the way lighting affects the world around you so it can be captured in a painting. her dress is blue simply because the background is blue around her and her white dress is reflecting the blue that is refracted. It's the same reason the sky and ocean are blue. They both do not have color; we simply have the blue/violet rays reflected into our eyes.
The world we live in Cinderella: Blue Sleeping Beauty: Pink Ariel: Pink then Green Belle: Yellow The World we should have Cinderella: White Sleeping Beauty: Blue Ariel: Green Belle: Gold It doesn't effect much but it would be better by a pinch
I always loved the shimmering purple dress Ariel comes out of the water in at the end of the movie! Although its silhouette is too simple for her iconography or theme park outfit, I always wished they themed her more purple like her clamshell top and that dress from the end of the movie. But now Rapunzel’s color theme is purple so that would be confusing.
@@misslinguinni maybe if they had made her dress purple instead of pink. I never thought about it but purple on Aurora would be pretty... tbh purple on any of them would be pretty but I think thats my purple bias showing
@Isaac Mckennall I think the blue suits her character more, she's calm and reactionary, much like water. She's by far my favorite. However Disney missed the chance for her dress to be Mi Parti because she's a Medieval Princess, so why not Blue and Pink
She looks so much more magical with silver. Although, the blue one looks AMAZING in the live action. I love them both but on different terms. I need to see a version in gold like the old folk tales 👀
Can we also talk about the change of hair color between her and Aurora? If you look at the two original films Cinderella has strawberry blonde hair, and Aurora has a more pale/ashy blonde color. But with the merchandise, it seems like they swapped the two. Cindy's has gotten incredibly paler and blonder, while Aurora's has become darker and golden. I dunno something I noticed after working in the parks.
Yes! I noticed that and it began to annoy to me. I like the reddish color in cinderella's hair, it makes her stand out against the original three princesses.
Veronica Elders The reason the 35mm looks dirty blonde is because since they didn’t have great technology back then, everything has a greyish tint. Look at the background for example, it’s literally black and white when it’s supposed to be blue and purple.
Fun fact: my mom is a stylist in TV, and when I was little a famous sewing team she collaborated with for work made me a Cinderella gown for carnival. The dress was silver, and all the kids were asking me why it wasn't blue ahahah Well, I guess that whoever made me that dress knew the real tea 👀👀
Can we all agree that the tweaks they give Cinderella’s hairdo in more recent images (chunky highlights, loose tendrils coming out of her bun) are unsettling? I don’t know why but I hate it lol
Yess I've noticed the same thing! They changed her hair from the rolled up bumber banged updo look in the original to this weird messy bun with side-swept chunky bangs
yeah the ashy blonde with highlights looks so weird and unnatural and even weirdly dated now? also why would Cinderella color her hair, she was given a makeover in her movie cause she didn't have anything but her scraps
I think actually Cinderella’s dress is neither blue or silver, is literally like *stardust white*, but I bet they didn’t make it white-ish because next to the other princesses could have been mistaken as a wedding dress?, that’s my theory
@@elainestokes2787 so they could sell stories of young girls who get married to the first guy they meet but not a doll with a dress that could be similar to a wedding dress?
@@AllThePeppermint Same! I really wanted to make Aurora's blue dress for my barbies, because in merchandising the cut of it isn't right. I told my mom about it, and instead she went on ebay looking for Aurora dolls. We ended up getting one, but won't fit my barbies. :(
I actually heard that Disney marketed Cinderella’s dress as blue because they thought the silver would resemble a wedding dress on toys and other merchandise.
@K Annie lol but still they couldn't keep their original design, they literally only changed the dress's color because Of merchandising, they couldn't make dresses for little girls because it looked to much like a wedding dress like WHAT.
@K Annie They were intended to be enjoyed by everyone, not just children. Snow White was truly heralded as a cinematic masterpiece when it was released and inspired the Wizard of Oz to be created.
I know righttt I mean yea, Cinderella and her dress is mostly marketed to children, but elsa's new white dress is not as childish, and is more elegant, so I don't see what's wrong. I would be very happy and satisfied if disney would go back to marketing cinderella's dress to be a more silvery tone.
i thought her dress was a silver tinted blue when its actually a super neutral grey... but then i realized the whole night scene is filled with deep rich blues.. which would affect the perception of the color.. its still messing with my eyes wth
Yes Cinderella II was horrendous but I’d just like to remind everyone that Cinderella III: a Twist in Time is amazing. You should go watch it right now if you haven’t already. It’s on Disney Plus.
Why are you calling me out like this? 😂 I actually really liked the Anastasia story in Cinderella II. But the plot with Jaq becoming a human was weird.
when i was little i loved cinderella ii. i liked that anastasia and cinderella had put aside their differences. but cinderella iii is without a doubt better
@@spacemilk4010 I only had Cinderella ii when I was little(I think the grownups mixed it up) and didn't see the original so I loved it as well haha I was so happy when I finally got the original Cinderella, Cinderella iii is definitely better than Cinderella ii but yeah
@@misslinguinni Anastasia's story ft the baker is the ONE redeeming quality of CII 😂. It also sets up CIII really well w/ Anastasia, a great layered, complex character.
OMG THANK YOU. My friends always laugh because it's a pet peeve of mine, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who knows it's SILVER. I have a similar issue with how Sally from Nightmare before Christmas' skin is blue in marketing and her dress is always waaaay off.
There's an alternate timeline in which Cinderella's dress was marketed as silver/white and that led to real-life recreations of it being popular at weddings
besides the fact that I’ve been living a lie this whole time, the colour comparison with everything is aesthetically pleasing and the colour palette is so elegantly well put i love it a lot ❤️
I’ve always said that the fairy good mother was the spirit of Cinderella’s mom and the dress she gave her is the her old wedding dress but Disney can’t sale white dresses to little girls without making them look like brides
It is such a shame that most kids these days won't even really get a chance to see the old film, and instead will see the blue-ray 2012 edition, and the new cinderella marketing. They will never get to see her beautiful silver gown 😭😭😭
Yeah, I was so disappointed when they revealed her new look with the limp tendril curls and pattern on her dress.. Seems blasphemous to change an iconic character design. I grew up loving her in the 90s and that's 40 years after the original came out and we didn't have an issue with how she looked 4 decades later. :-\
I’m sooo obsessed with your absolute perfect rendition of this gorgeous dress. Something about twirling in a pretty dress too. Today I learned Disney animators made it silver! I wish they had kept it silver all along though I love blue.🤍🩵💙
When I was younger I thought it was artist but I remember rewatching at like 13 or 14 thinking why does her dress look gray now? And even then it didn’t seem the blue disney marketed it but a very pale blue lol
I’m so happy you made this video. I watched the 1950 movie for the first time in forever on Disney Plus and was FLOORED at the white dress color, despite the restoration you mentioned. I think the original animated film dress looks better than anything since still!
Braylin When modergurlz said the pink dress was horrendous she was talking about the pink version of the silver dress that we see in Cinderella II, not about her mother’s pink dress in the first movie lol
This reminds me of the Kingdom Hearts series, where wherever Cinderella makes an appearance in her ballgown, the color of the gown has been silver/white. It's a rare show of fidelity to the original movie. It's one of the few times I've ever seen her in any Disney property (even a crossover with Square Enix) where her dress isn't blue like in the Disney Princess brand.
On the eye colour: as someone with blue eyes, silver definitely makes them pop. Thats why I wear silver jewelry and also why I highlight my eyes with silver. So a silver dress would 100 percent make her eyes pop
I was always angry about how the dress was marketed as blue, but it still looks as beautiful as ever. Plus, the live-action Cinderella dress has got to be my favorite dress ever. Plus, I really liked the turquoise/green dress she had in the 2nd.
the silver makes sooo much sense with the eye comment. I don't think there's any argument to say that her canon dress is silver. it's just these disney princesses and characters are way bigger than their one movie. and like you said absolutely saturated for capitalists greed that could care little for creative integrity. still it's nice to appreciate what it was in it's time.
I once had a "fight" with two girls who insisted Cinderella's dress was blue. I was try to present my arguments when they basically belittled my opinion because I was a man and therefore wasn't as good as distinguishing colours (yes, that was literally the argument they used). I basically just shrugged it off and thought "not worth the effort".
I think that the blue background also plays a role. If you put gray or silver (that are not actual colors but just a mix of black and white) next to colors like blue or red, they tend to appear to the human eye as more "cold" (for blue) or "warm" (for red), so the dress appears "colder" than it would have been on a white background and we tend to associate coldness with blue-ness
I really really love the original silver sparkling dress of Cinderella. I understand how it's probably very difficult to mass produce a silver dress (without it looking cheap and/or too Christmas-like) so Disney opted for a blue dress. But still, when I was a little girl, I had repeated dreams about Cinderella in that silver dress and crystal slippers. That sight of pure beauty and elegance just shook my soul lol
I'm showing this too everyone I know who says that "you do know Cinderella's dress is blue?" to me. I'm right! It was silver and her hair was strawberry blonde!
i absolutely loved that you talked about the multiple rereleases of the movie, and how the color grading is affected throughout the redistributions of cinderella!
Also further evidence is the saks 5th avenue limited edition collecter doll. (The Disney limited edition dolls are very expensive and very accurate to the original movie. The detail and such is hand stitched and only about 1000 are made) that dolls dress is silver and design by Disney based off the original movie. So clearly her dress is silver but mostly market as blue.
suemommie I know! Which makes me very sad because the limited edition dolls are so beautiful and unique (I own the Aurora) I feel like marketing Cinderella in her silver dress would not only make her design true to the movie, but it would also make her stand out and contrast with the other princesses. Specifically belle and Aurora.
From someone who worked at Disney I was informed the decision was intentional to make a blue dress so as not to confuse the dress with a wedding dress.
I also grew up in the '92 VHS and I remember being so sad I couldn't get a doll with a silver dress! I could not understand why all the dolls wore blue!!
great commentary, honestly I didn't even know about this discussion but now I'm obsessed with it 😍 Also, personally I think given that every Disney princess has a unique style and dressing code/color, when picturing a blue dress it overlaps with Aurora's color-changing dress in Sleeping Beauty. So, I think sikver would make more sense.
You've managed to convince me. BTW, in the read-along storybook with cassette that I had as a 4-year-old back in ye olde days of 1984, the illustrations made Cinderella's dress...PINK!
Another thing that Disney deliberately changed with Cinderella, would be her hairdo. Her hair was originally supposed to be in something akin to a French roll, not a bun.
I feel like I’ve been lied to for years!!! This is insane! I don’t know what to believe anymore! But whatever color her dress is, I still think it’s beautiful. I wonder if this is why her dress was white in the musical though.🤔💙🤍
Also reminder that in the original, pre-disney fairytale, Cinderella attends the festival for 3 nights, and each night the shoes and gown become more extravagant. However, the dress and slippers are always described as being gold AND SILVER, no matter which rendition of the dress.
In the animated version her dress is clearly Silver I caught onto that very early on because it’s much easier to make a blue dress than it is a silver one
