What’s your favorite Gabrielle look?
Posted by ObnoxiousConsistent@reddit | xena | View on Reddit | 89 comments
And a bonus question - does the classic s2-3 green top, also known as the BGSB, deserve the hate? 😁
I don’t think it’s that bad, but I do wish she’d kept the late s1 brown outfit longer. I also have a soft spot for Gabby’s winter coat.
KittyWood1994@reddit
3, hands down, but any short-haired look was great on her.
Fair-Victory-3531@reddit
Green Gabrielle is the main outfit as far as I'm concerned
Beautiful_Prior_5062@reddit
The long red hair. With a staff. She just wasnt gabrielle with short blond and those ninja turtle weapons! Haha
Wise_Airport5655@reddit
unsichtbar_dabble@reddit
I liked 2, 4 and 5
Important-Daikon-670@reddit
I actually loved short haired Gabrielle.
ObnoxiousConsistent@reddit (OP)
me too, especially s5 onwards!
Cruise1313@reddit
Loved all of Gabrielle’s looks.
Surrea_Wanderer@reddit
On one hand the green top is iconic but on the other hand the season 6 muscles and androgynous haircut make me feel things 🙏
IndependenceRich8754@reddit
DameEris@reddit
GunstarHeroine@reddit
FeedOk8085@reddit
What episode is this?!
Crafty_Two5432@reddit
Devi I think
Evilbuffy14@reddit
I've never prayed so hard for a nip slip in my life. 🤣
milehighgayguy@reddit
Number 5 IS Gabrielle for me.
Shadoecat150@reddit
I liked late S1 and S2 best. But they were all great. Plus the tattoo in S3
RainbowMisthios@reddit
Any butch Gabrielle look really.
skornd713@reddit
That one....that one right there. That's the one.
Larielia@reddit
The one is a nice outfit.
Evilbuffy14@reddit
BGSB forever! Although, she did have some great outfits, and some not so great.
Popular-One-7051@reddit
Crafty_Two5432@reddit
I’ve been on the hunt for something like her winter coat forever!!!
Popular-One-7051@reddit
I never liked that coat. It's like the costuming department got really lazy and just threw something together. I loved the samurai outfit in AFIN, but I just can't watch AFIN
EBJ1990@reddit
I hate the episode but the best look ever is Gabbys samurai look towards the end of AFIN
SakuraTacos@reddit
That’s one of my fave looks too! Gab and Xena remind me so much of Wesley and Buttercup in that ep
Ok_Kangaroo_2160@reddit
Jaw dropped. There's this video of a fan drawing parallels between XWP and TPB, and my mind instantly went there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPRoS15LO9E
SakuraTacos@reddit
I discovered that vid recently, I love it soooo much!
One of my earliest posts here after finishing the show last year was this one about XWP/TPB so I was cracking up so much when I found that YouTube vid
Ok_Kangaroo_2160@reddit
I'm a sucker for these older videos, back when YouTube was starting, and ads weren't everywhere.
I'll check it out! Thank you!
AFIN might've been heartwrenching, but the kiss shared between Gabrielle and Xena was worth it. I'm sure they did a lot more than that (away from our prying eyes 🤭).
PaleontologistSad766@reddit
Ooooffff the parallels here 🥹❤️
irongoddess_of_mercy@reddit
The BGSB forever
Numerous_Rough_5727@reddit
Their travels thru India and body paint was beautiful to say the least.Beauty and strength adventures
LeFreeke@reddit
I love her evolution. But I’m especially fond of her with short hair and the skirt in pic two. Either halter.
amyc7@reddit
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This one
Agile-Dork9360@reddit
Love it
Ambi0us@reddit
Yes
Great-Car-1358@reddit
pastajewelry@reddit
Yeah, this one was amazing.
eastelmhurstagogo@reddit
Yummy she always turns me on.
Trashy_Cappy@reddit
1&3, but THIS is the right answer, OP.
GeorgiaEllas@reddit
The last picture
unizachai@reddit
5th
TAFKA_DarkSpecterSBM@reddit
Amazon Princess, but specifically the version in The Quest.
BoyInKemmer@reddit
With the benefit of hindsight, one of my favourite ways to watch the show is paying close attention to Gabrielle's arc. In some ways I think her development as a character goes a lot further than Xena's, and it's a lot starker or less subtle than Xena's. And I think her costume changes are a really good way the show punctuates that progression, it visually sends us the signal for a lot of her more significant pivot points. It's something you don't get for Xena in the same way in terms of the "present" of the show (though you do if you incorporate the show's flashbacks - in essence because she progresses most before the show's time actually begins, whereas Gabby progresses in realtime).
Anyway, all that to say I love them all because they're like little windows into Gabrielle's change. But the most iconic in the sense of recognisable and living in my mind's eye is definitely the s2-3 green and brown combo.
IseQween@reddit
Somebody else posted about that, maybe last year. Really made me give more significance to her different outfits. They also show Renee's awesome physical development, especially abs and arms. The hairstyles also change as she matures. I admittedly tended to overlook Gabs at first. When I view now, I notice all the (sometimes subtle) clues to XWP being about her journey as much or more than Xena's.
StarUniverseFalls@reddit
Crafty_Two5432@reddit
I really thought her Amazon outfit was the start of her new look, bummed she didn’t keep it!
prairey@reddit
I know it's just one ep, but her outfit in "paradise found" is my absolute fave.
ObnoxiousConsistent@reddit (OP)
yesss, i love this one too. actually i like it way more than the yellow outfit, as a representation of her spiritual journey and whatnot in s4
lovebug17059@reddit
All of them although I do consider her shining brighter with short hair no matter the outfit.
antealtares@reddit
5
shamanlergie@reddit
The potatoe sack 🤣
ObnoxiousConsistent@reddit (OP)
hahaha i had to actively stop myself from including that one in the slideshow 🤣
Background_Card_1345@reddit
They all look good. The debate about "The Incredible Shrinking Top" has been going on since I hung around the Athenum Archives in 2001...
Western-Arachnid-876@reddit
Her short hair from the later seasons especially in image 4.
julie_strain@reddit
short hair but a little grown out
Guava-Event1587@reddit
The green is obviously the classic but her S5 look is my favorite. That shot of her in Amphipolis Under Siege, from the back during the battle with all her shoulder and back muscles doing work? Perfection, no notes.
DSC_Skysword@reddit
Short hair supremacy.
krisn31@reddit
yes! 2 and 4 but really all.
DarkGrimNature@reddit
Can we just give her flowers for her abs? They’re so iconic.
MusicIsLife81@reddit
Season 5
Forsaken_Teach_3584@reddit
ObnoxiousConsistent@reddit (OP)
hahaha this is a winning entry
Individual-Pay7430@reddit
This look. I love the coat, short hair, sais and all.
Overall_Sandwich_671@reddit
She looks great no matter what, but I found her to be more animated when she had the reddish season 1 outfit and classic green top. The long hair flapping about, carrying that cumbersome staff everywhere and leaning on it or using it to poke things, and sometimes she'd even have a satchel swinging around from her shoulder. It all just made her very ... alive in all her scenes. With the short hair and sais Gabby's presence became more stiff, I think.
LilKatieHQ@reddit
The green top look 🤷♀️ I’m basic, I guess.
The_MamaK@reddit
Samurai Gabrielle at the end of S6
teddybluethecurser@reddit
Happy cake day
teddybluethecurser@reddit
5 but with the longer top
Willing_Day_1667@reddit
Nr. 5. The short hair didn't suit her.
Ok-Jackfruit-6873@reddit
I'm so conflicted because my favorite actual look was with the braid in India and all the pearls but that wasn't even her in that episode and was also kind of "peak femme" right before she begins her transformation with the haircut and new physicality. I just think she looks really pretty there but I affirm her overall arc!! ... Except when she goes from strawberry blonde to platinum, I really liked her original hair color. So many people call her an irritating blonde it's like they manifested it haha
JaggedLittlePill2022@reddit
The first look. I absolutely hated the short hair back then and I hate it today.
Quarks00@reddit
Four is the best look. It’s a very “I’m Xena’s successor” energy in a way the other looks don’t have.
islandgirl39@reddit
The green top and the Amazon outfit are my fave, i do like her India outfit too
BasicDurgeanomics@reddit
The one where she's in screen 😍
In all seriousness though I'd go with 4, the short hair with the top & coat combo is fantastic.
Nipplasia2@reddit
After the haircut. 4 to be exact is when she looked best. A little more mature and stylish!!
Agent8699@reddit
My favourite would be the late season 1, red / brown and blue quasi-Amazon, but also passably bard outfit.
I think it fits Gabrielle’s character the best.
The season 5 leather Amazon bikini is absolute 🔥 I mean, it showcases her musculature to an irresponsibly attractive degree.
I’m not sure Gabrielle got the … perfect costume for her character. I’m thinking a blend of Najara’s costume with its softer material and lighter colours mixed with … I don’t know, something inspired by the Northern Amazons perhaps. Basically, not a bikini 😆
Sad-Rice3033@reddit
Amazon
Mrblorg@reddit
Ok-Jackfruit-6873@reddit
ooh we could have seen that look!! now I'm angry they took it away from us!!
SomeDinars@reddit
5 is best
Zesty-B230F@reddit
3 with tattoos kinda hot, but I'm still going green #5 as the classic.
TerribleBid8416@reddit
#5
I know it gets the most hate but damn
faerieberrie@reddit
I love her very first look, with the blue shirt, blue jacket, and long skirt. I also adore the clothes she wears halfway through s1 when she becomes an Amazon princess, and wish she had worn them longer.
Of course, her green top with the embroidered leaves and brown skirt is probably her most well-known outfit.
Ok_Kangaroo_2160@reddit
The green top is hated by some? I didn't know that. I consider it her quintessential outfit as it shows off her beautifully toned abs.
The brown top and skirt deserved more of a lasting presence. She wears it after meeting the Amazons, if I recall correctly. Her winter coat is *perfection* - Renee looks particularly stunning at the beginning of "Them Bones, Them Bones." Succession is a great one too!
Fuzzy_Ability8284@reddit
I think the green top got so much hate because it kept shrinking to the point of it becoming a sports bra. Its still my favorite outfit though because I consider it to be the quintessential Gabby fit and its what she wears during the (imo) peak of the show.
jenyovation@reddit
All. 😍
Ok_Kangaroo_2160@reddit
this is correct
AstroAlana@reddit
season 5 gabrielle is where she looks most butch and fit so i’d have to go with that but also i long for when her hair would randomly be a strawberry blonde i wish they had kept that instead of going completely platinum