Fashion has been a way that people can display how they want to be perceived for as long as it has existed. Rather it is used for you to identify with a specific culture, or to express your individuality, people use fashion as a way to affect how others perceive them. A major theme of The Great Gatsby is his experience with false reality while trying to work his way into the elite social class of New York.
Fashion, and fashion trends throughout time are way more important to the socioeconomic ladder than we consider day-to-day. The biggest way to determine a time setting for a film is the clothes the characters are wearing, this also goes for determining the economic class of the characters being introduced. Though it is never mentioned exclusively in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby had to have been putting effort into the clothing he was wearing to both business meetings and parties to be perceived in the way he had hoped for. Daisy is described in the first chapter wearing all white to represent purity, and in the newer version of the film Gatsby is shown wearing a white suit that portrays him as wealthy.
My film pitch will emphasize fashion and the trends that led to the trends that Jay Gatsby had to embody and use to climb the social ladder and eventually achieve his goal of being enough for Daisy Buchanan.
