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Lady Macbeth throughout the book was very ambitious and wanted to gain power as quickly as possible. Her dress has black twisted vines on it and these represent her ambitious side. The black color of the vines symbolizes death and this relates to Lady Macbeth because she would do anything, even commit murder to become powerful. Also, the design wanders all over the dress; this represents how whenever murder is committed nature goes out of order. The dress she is wearing is red, which indicates that Lady Macbeth took part behind many murders that led to bloodshed. The gold ribbon accent pieces on the clothing were used to show that Lady Macbeth’s status and wealth. The last part of this costume was a blue cloak. This cloak is the most important piece to this outfit because it shows that Lady Macbeth tries to hide her true- self from the rest of the world, as she only exposes her innocent self.
 * Lady Macbeth 1606 Costume-**



Macbeth’s 1606 costume is of the same print as Lady Macbeth’s. Just like Lady Macbeth he will do anything to gain power even if he has to kill many of his good friends. Macbeth is wearing black boots because they show that he is always on the move and doesn’t have time to settle down, for he is very paranoid about his murders. His silver crown is different than Lady Macbeth’s to show that even though these two are both ambitious he displays a cowardly side. Macbeth like Lady Macbeth is wearing a cloak; however, his cloak is black. His black plays a large role in shaping Macbeth’s outfit, because it symbolizes that he does a bad job of hiding himself and the only side he truly shows is his ambitious and evil side.
 * Macbeth 1606 Costume-**



For Lady Macbeth’s modern day costume I wanted to have the same themes of blood and ambition to carry over. So, I made the skirt of her dress bright red to show that she helped with the plotting of the murdering of people. I put a bright red bow on the skirt to try and draw attention to her and bring out her ambitious side. The shirt of the skirt is white, and though this normally indicates innocence or surrender, I wanted it to show that Lady Macbeth is trying to use an innocent side to cover up her ambition. Also, the shirt has a nature pattern; I wanted to use this nature pattern to show that every time blood is shed nature goes out of order. I thought it was very important to try and make Lady Macbeth look innocent although she is guilty of murder.
 * Lady Macbeth Modern Day Costume-**



For Macbeth’s modern day costume, I chose to make most of his costume black. I thought it was very important to show all the royal death that Macbeth has caused in Scotland. However; under his jacket I put a bright red, modern shirt to show that bloodshed became a norm for Macbeth. Also, I embroidered the jacket with gold ribbon to represent that Macbeth let his need for power and money takeover his life and steered him to committing murders. I also put bright red buttons on the jacket again to draw attention to his bloody side. I decided to put Macbeth in high class clothes to show that even though Macbeth was a murderer he was still very rich and of the upper class.
 * Macbeth Modern Day Costume-**