Naturally Engaged

Violet's nude Chloé dress

If you're like me, you can't get enough of a great rom-com or, perhaps even a thriller if you're feeling a little more adventurous.

I was watching 'The Five-Year Engagement' a couple of days ago and I realised that the costumes Emily Blunt's character, Violet, wears were beautifully selected by the movie's costumes designer, Leesa Evans, who also picked the costumes for the film 'Bridesmaids'.

I especially liked the nude, embellished Chloé shift dress Viloet wears to the engagement party. Leesa Evans says of the gorgeous dress "—it had a bit of a vintage tone to it. That Chloe dress just embodied everything I would imagine Violet would have found in some special, tiny San Francisco vintage store. It said bride, but a little bit quirky bride."

Violet in the Valentino wedding dress

When Jason Segel's character, Tom, proposes to Violet in the first scene, she wears a Valentino skirt and a 1960s vintage silver-brocaded jacket.

The reason that Jason Segel is wearing sneakers in this scene (rather oddly, I think), was because "they are both young and still starting out. There's a certain boyish quality to him. ... The sneakers give him a bit of a boyish look."

Leesa Evans commented on Violet's Valentino wedding dress saying that "it was actually one of the easiest decisions of the whole film. Emily put it on and it looked stunning on her – she loved it, Nick the director loved it, and it was done."

Valentino skirt and vintage jacket

Throughout this hilarious comedy, Emily Blunt's character wears a monogram necklace in every scene, from her engagement to Tom to their wedding day. The necklace was "designed by Suzanne Donegan, the Los Angeles-based jeweler behind the elegant and understated fine jewellery line Mannin." I love this necklace in particular about her character's costumes because it is both sophisticated and stylish.

The monogram necklace

All in all, I think that the costumes for this film gave it a very appropriately romantic feel and reflected the stages the couple go through during their relationship.


Let's hope you enjoyed the film as much as I did!

                                                      Sophia