The costume design of The Squid Game has a curious detail: the guards are in red uniforms, the players are in green. Let's try to find out why.

Squid Game: why the guards are dressed in red, and the players in green

The costume design of The Squid Game has a curious detail: the guards are in red uniforms, the players are in green. Let's try to find out why.

Netflix's The Squid Game has received accolades for its vibrant visual style, which also comes from the characters' costumes. So why are the guards in the game of the same name wearing bright red uniforms, and the participants in green?

Like many other details of the film, the bright colors are chosen for a reason and are much more important than it might seem at first glance.

The uniforms worn by the characters in The Squid Game quickly became iconic, but in addition to creating an external entourage, they also have a symbolic meaning associated with the dark themes of the series.

One of the main components of the series' plot is the fusion of children's games with the grim realities of modern capitalism.

The main characters, for various reasons, are mired in debt, so desperate that for the sake of a ghostly chance to get rid of problems, they are ready to risk their lives and commit vile deeds.

While the games they compete in are based on regular playground games, they are perverted by grim stakes. And these rates are inevitable in the current economic reality. In fact, the juxtaposition of childhood fun with the death that surrounds them is what gives The Squid Game such intense tension.

The brightly colored uniforms worn by the players and staff of the Squid Game lend themselves well to this ominous juxtaposition. The green and blue color of the participants' tracksuits and the red and pink of the guards are so vibrant that it's strange to see them predominate in a Hunger Games-style gladiatorial arena.

Series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk explained that he wanted to introduce a clear visual language for the factionalism that is common in many children's team games.

While there is no clear reason for the guards to wear uniforms of a particular color, there is some clear symbolism in the game. Pink is often considered a feminine color and red is the color of danger.

Therefore, the henchmen of the organizers of the game are dressed up in a paradoxical color, which traditionally represents softness and childhood, but also causes a feeling of tension and anxiety.

This tension is only heightened by the fact that the faces of the guards are not visible, making them look more like beasts or robots than human beings.

Similarly, the players' blue-green tracksuits carry a certain level of irony in their design. Tracksuits are casual wear, not battle armor, and that alone adds to the sarcasm when juxtaposing the game with its violent nature.

In addition, the turquoise color of the uniform, as a rule, is a symbol of the world, healing or revival, but in the history of the “game in the squid”, tracksuits are practically a death sentence, and most of those who wears them end in garbage -burning furnaces.

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And yet, despite such a gloomy symbolism, costumes from the “game of squid” became quite popular and in demand among fans of the series, both red vestments of security and green tracksuits of players.

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