i’ve been seeing a lot of posts about the yellowjackets wearing each other’s clothes and while i love the angst of it all, i think it’s worth noting that the entire group seems to swap clothes regularly and there’s something equally devastating about that, too
the fact that they probably didn’t have a solid laundry system, especially in those first several months out there and especially in the winter, so they had no real way of separating clothing based on who it belonged to and several of the girls’ favorite clothes wound up lost
the fact that they lost all sense of personal style out there because they had to prioritize wearing what they had and sharing clothes to layer up with, symbolizing how they slowly lost their attachment to the civilized world that they once knew
the fact that, for 19 months, none of them got to have the teenage girl experience of picking out cute outfits every day and walking out feeling confident and pretty and themselves
the fact that so much of the clothing they had belonged to their dead teammates and friends, and they had to wear that clothing without ever having time to think about it or mourn the people they lost before putting it on
the fact that certain characters favor the clothing of specific people they’ve lost, like shauna regularly wearing jackie’s clothing more than anyone else’s or lottie regularly wearing laura lee’s dress
the fact that that clothing will always carry the traumatic memories of what they went through out there, no matter how much time passes or how many times they run it through the wash
the wilderness will always be there, inside every fiber of the fabric like a stain that will not come out
