#5 Dawn and the Impossible Three

The thing that bothers me a lot about this book is that the kids aren't impossible, but the covers try their best to make it look so.
Maybe the writing process went like how comic books used to be produced: draw the cover and make a title first, and the writer tries to build a story around it.
Anyways, here are Dawn's outfits on the covers:

Unlike the covers (except the graphic novel one), I actually made her hair reach her butt and be almost white. Unlike the books, I made her a little more tan (but still pretty pale) because for some reason, out of all the SoCal stereotypes, AMM forgot the tan.

Moving on to descriptions:

Mary Anne wore her first sweatshirt and pair of jeans in this book! Which is weird. Why was Mary Anne not allowed to wear a sweater? Sweaters and turtlenecks aren't that different.

Dawn describes Stacey walking up to her looking like this:

A baggy floral jumpsuit. Sophistication at its finest. AMM and the ghosties did have a thing for Stacey in jumpsuits.

Dawn herself is wearing this:

Dawn describes herself as looking "ordinary next to Stacey". Which is true, because Stacey does look ugly!

- M

#4 Mary Anne to the Rescue! (Covers)

Sorry about the lack of activity, I was busy getting ready for the school year and doing other art:

(Pictured: my other art)

I didn't have time to do the graphic novel covers outfits so sorry about that too!

- M

#3 The Truth About Stacey (Covers)

I don't have a copy of the book, so all of these come from the covers!

First cover:

Stacey, what the hell are you wearing? A patterned shirt over a sweater with shades? That's the stuff Claudia wears! You're supposed to the ~classy~ one.

Second cover:

This one is more Stacey's style, but I'm pretty sure she's wearing a jumpsuit under her coat. ANM and the ghosties had a thing for Stacey in jumpsuits.

Graphic novel covers:

Nothing impressive or interesting, but certainly something you can picture an actual 13 year-old wearing.

Kristy is Kristy. The covers show her wearing the same jeans and sneakers from the Kristy's Great Idea covers. Sounds about right. I hope she only has multiple pairs and doesn't just wear the exact same pairs for weeks. Who am I kidding, it's Kristy.

Mary Anne remains Mary Anne. It's 2017, so the nerd look is in. In fact, every look is in. I think. I may be a teenage girl but I have no idea what's going on with fashion nowadays. Whatever it is, it's probably better than jumpsuits and neon turtlenecks.

...You've gotta be fucking kidding me.

Moving on, Claudia's outfits:

The graphic novel covers are so accurate when it comes to Claudia's wacky fashion, unlike the covers of the original books, where they drew a colorful sweater and a side ponytail then called it a day.

That's enough for today. See ya!

-M

#2 Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls

Since my only source of BSC outfits are What Claudia Wore and the BSC covers I found off of Google, I could only find Claudia outfits. But at least they're the best ones!

I'm wearing purple pants that stop just below my knees and are held up with suspenders, white tights with clocks on them, a purple plaid shirt with a matching hat, my high-top sneakers, and lobster earrings.

This outfit actually isn't that bad. Nix the tights and the lobsters, make the pants longer and I could see it in a fashion show.

Cover Outfits: 

This is the one from the first cover (the one with Kirsten Dunst on it). There's actually a pattern on the sweater but because it's obscured by her arm I didn't draw it.

This is the one from the second cover, which looks way more like a Claudia outfit, but still pretty tame. Up your game cover artist!

Also, while Googling covers, I found the UK cover, and Claudia looks eerily similar to Tomie.

Maybe this is why we never see any of her boyfriends again after their books.

- M

#1 Kristy's Great Idea (Covers)

Only going with the first cover because I couldn't find one of the new cover big enough for me to draw from.

While Googling the covers I came across the covers from the graphic novels, so I did those too, even if they weren't as strange or dated.

Original Cover:

I remember reading that Claudia's hair was as long as Dawn's, so I drew it that way. Also bright red t-shirt under bright yellow overalls is horrifying.

I like Stacey's outfit more, even if it was a pain to draw. I could see someone wearing this even now.

Graphic Novels:

Claudia's outfits aren't as crazy as described in the books, but at least they're still strange. I also like how Claudia has a streak in her hair in the comics.

Yep, I can buy Comics!Stacey as sophisticated.

Kristy is Kristy...

And Mary Anne is Mary Anne. I didn't bother redrawing her shoes and I also redid her bangs because I wasn't happy with the original one.

These took up my whole day and I'm starving. See ya!

- M

#1 Kristy's Great Idea

First off we have Claudia's outfits because, well, they're the best/worst ones.

"short, very baggy lavender plaid overalls, a white lacy blouse, a black fedora, and red high-top sneakers without socks. Her long black hair was carefully arranged in four braids."

This outfit looks like the kind of stuff the "wacky friend" in a Nick or Disney sitcom would wear. Since there wasn't a detailed description of her make-up, I didn't draw it. Considering this is Claudia, maybe it was for the best. Also, please ignore my poor attempt at a fedora. I'm drawing with a mouse here, give me a break!

The second Claudia outfit listed goes like this:

Claudia answered it again, this time wearing a baggy yellow-and-black checked shirt, black pants, red jazz shoes, and a bracelet that looked like it was made from a telephone cord. Her earrings were dangling jointed skeletons that jumped around when she moved. I noticed she wasn't wearing any makeup.

Now this is something I can actually picture a teenage girl wearing. Hell, I might even wear this, and I don't even do fashion. It's pretty tame for a usual Claudia outfit, but since this is the first book and it hasn't been established (aka flanderized) yet, I'll give it a pass.


In the middle of Kristy and Claudia's fight, Kristy points out her sheep barrettes:

Moving on to the next resident fashion queen of the BSC, Stacey McGill:

a pink sweat shirt with sequins and a large purple parrot on the front; short, tight-fitting jeans with zippers up the outsides of the legs; and pink plastic shoes. She was very pretty, tall and quite thin with huge blue eyes framed by dark lashes, and fluffy blonde hair that looked as if it had been permed recently.

Ah, back when we could buy that Stacey was sophisticated. Pink sweater doesn't really sound very sophisticated nowadays, but it was the 80s, so I'll give that a pass too.

wearing a matching top and skirt made of gray sweat shirt material with big yellow number tens all over it. Her hair was pinned back with clips shaped like rainbows. Little silver whistles were dangling from her ears.

Since it didn't describe her shoes, I didn't draw them. It seems I also forgot to add the tens on her skirt =_=. I colored the rainbows purple and pink because my brain had a process that went like this: rainbow -> LGBT+ -> Stacey sounds like she could be bi. Stacey and Sam made a good couple.

Moving on to Mary Anne, who's still under the iron fist of her father at the time:

Her saddle shoes ended up looking more like sneakers. =_=

And finally, Kristy Thomas herself...in a skirt?! Willingly?!

For some reason, Kristy dressed for school like there was a uniform. This is extremely odd, since in the next books she goes to school in her actual uniform (sweater, turtleneck, jeans, sneakers). The original cover even depicted her with her hair down (which I didn't draw because the template I made had her permanently in a ponytail because I didn't expect this).

Later in the book, she does appear in her "uniform". I made templates but I didn't finish the drawing because I couldn't think of any colors.

Next time, I'll do the outfits from the two covers! See ya!

- M

Hey!

I'm M, and I've always had a morbid fascination with the many outfits described in The Baby-Sitters Club. Now, I'm a child of the 2000s, not the 80s, so maybe what the BSC wore really was cool back in the day. (I doubt that)

So I've decided to start up a project dedicated to illustrating all of the crazy and colorful outfits from the Baby-Sitters Club for two reasons.

The first is as practice for digital art, and the second is because half the time I can't believe their parents even let them leave the house.

Since school starts up in two weeks for me, expect weekend posts.

See ya!

- M