Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 8: Miss Piggy in THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

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Yesterday, a depressed holiday princess! Today, a fierce Christmas mama. We figured we needed to return to a more traditional vibe after that last entry and there couldn’t be a more traditional yuletide character than Mrs. Emily Cratchit portrayed by Miss Piggy (Frank Oz) in 1992’s The Muppet Christmas Carol, directed by Brian Henson. It is to Miss Piggy’s credit that she agreed to a relatively small role in which she only gets to wear one costume and that costume is distressingly free of feathers, sequins or diamonds.

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At least she gets to change out of her shawl and apron and put a nicer cap on her head. It would seem silly to try and devise any sort of hidden meanings from this costume. It’s a straightforward Victorian period piece, refitted for an anthropomophized pig and costume designers Ann Hollowood and Polly Smith accomplished that strange task very well. It’s notable to us that she’s in a blue-and-lavender plaid, which isn’t the most Christmassy color scheme, but it does coordinate well with Miss Piggy’s ever-present lavender satin opera gloves, which don’t actually make sense for the character of Emily Cratchit, but do make sense for this tirelessly fabulous diva. Also not making sense, that she and her daughters Belina and Belinda would be wearing matching eyeshadow, but again this is a film about characters playing characters. Of course Miss Piggy’s fictional daughters would be clones of her, in dresses to match her own. It’s best not to think too much about the historical accuracy of such things, just as it’s best not to consider the genetic trickery that allows the inter-species Cratchit family to exist at all.

Next up: Christmas queerness!

[Photo/Still Credit: Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios]

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