New Moon Fashion: Bella Swan Outfit #3

Bella's simple side comes out with this outfit. I decided to go with a basic blue v-neck t-shirt and dark wash straight leg jeans to show the simplistic side of her personality. While she is very well developed and complicated as a character, she still has a simplistic sense to her. She isn't very demanding and has no desire to be in the spotlight. This outfit portrays that, as v-necks and jeans are basics. Taking into account the setting of Forks, Washington, I added a pair of slate gray snow boots. The color of the snow boots represent how the setting makes Bella feel: dreary and upset. It also shows how her life is colorless and monotonous without Edward, as the v-neck and jeans blend together and the gray boots have a nod to lifelessness. As the novel progresses, Bella spends more and more time with Jacob. He begins to grow on her. So I added a ring with a boho-tribal feel to it to represent her growing relationship with Jacob. However, Jacob cannot take the place of Edward in Bella's heart, so I decided to stick with the very neutral color scheme I had going on and put a gray plaid jacket over the v-neck. The jacket ties the outfit in with its setting and the color ties in with Bella's feelings in the novel. She is devastated after her love, Edward leaves her and it came out in her personality and actions. Gone was the quiet, shy girl in love with a vampire. She was replaced by a young woman who struggled day to day to try and heal her broken heart and face adversity.