Costume Designer Mary Jane Fort Read Lots of Teen Magazines and Yearbooks
Mean Girlsis a time capsule for the early aughts style with its velour tracksuits and miniskirts. Costume designer Mary Jane Fort actually went to great lengths to capture this moment in the 2000s. "We read millions of teen magazines and looked through millions of high school yearbooks from all over the country. But real schools are not quite as glossy, and we wanted a little more gloss just given the subject matter of the group. It's called the Plastics," Fort told Nylon. She estimated that Lohan had 59 costume changes, while everyone else had over 30.