#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