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When Cher Horowitz strutted into the fictitious Beverly Hills high school in Clueless, her yellow plaid matching set wasn’t the official uniform—but it might as well have been. Mona May’s indelible costume design for that film created a high bar for cinematic academic attire that is rarely topped.
In the years since Amy Heckerling’s landmark film, the students of classic teen movies and TV shows like Cruel Intentions and Gossip Girl opted for traditional private school threads, with some modifications to suit their sartorial moods. Now, director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s playful, candy-colored Do Revenge, Netflix’s contemporary twist on Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train, joins the high-school uniform chat—in all its pastel glory.
The dark comedy takes a fallen Queen Bee (Camila Mendes’ Drea) and pairs her with the awkward new girl (Maya Hawkes’ Eleanor) to bring down each other’s tormentors at a private school in Miami. The tone and plot are a match made in fashion heaven.