OK - this is freaky
I've seen a number of threads and posts (some of which are my own) on the BUFFY movie board about the costumes in the movie, and I think there deserve to be so many. Like I said before, the costumes in the 1992 BUFFY were one of a kind and fun.
I bring this up because last summer I happened upon an image that, if it's not a BUFFY movie reference, it's one hell of a coincidence because I can't think of anything else that would've inspired it.
Julieta Venegas is a Grammy Award-winning pop/rock singer, guitarist, and accordion and keyboard player from Mexico. (She was actually born in the United States, but she lives in Mexico and identifies as a Mexican.) I do not especially like her, but I have friends and relatives who do and I have seen her perform.
Her 2003 album SI, which has been her biggest-selling record to date, features photographs of her in a white wedding dress. The photo on the back shows her posed on her left knee with her right leg bent at an odd angle. The right leg and the skirt of the wedding dress are bunched up toward her breasts, so that the skirt is splayed out and is showing a good amount of her petticoat. She's also wearing white fishnet stockings, a short green jacket, and sneakers of some kind that match both the jacket and the dress in color.
Almost as soon as I saw this photo, I started thinking about the outfit described by "SherlockVonEinstein" in an earlier post, the one Buffy wears when she fights off the vampires in the school parking lot and then slays Amilyn in the boiler room, because (with a few exceptions), the outfit on the back of this album LOOKS ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE THAT ONE!
It's really very surprising. Not only that, but except for the black hair, Julieta Venegas looks a little like Kristy Swanson (okay, more like Sarah Michelle Gellar, but why nitpick?).
Could this possibly have been an accident? Unless BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER has never been at all popular in Mexico, I'd be tempted to think not. Venegas is also about the same age as Swanson, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if she saw the movie.
But don't take my word for it. Have a look at the linked-up image below and let me hear your verdict.
http://www.coveralia.com/caratulas/Julieta-Venegas-Si-Trasera.php