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Eleven: Ch 1
Eleven is a girl that had been experimented on for years in an isolated facility who has just escaped. When Eleven is first introduced, her color scheme is very washed out. Her appearance lacks any distinguishable identity, the color of her garment reflecting this; the dirty white shows an apparently somewhat damaged blank canvas. -
Nancy: Ch 1
Nancy Byers is an average, kind of "goodie-goodie" (seemingly) teenage girl. Nancy's pastel and cool toned color scheme explains this well, giving her a sense of passivity and purity. -
Eleven: Ch 1 (Pt 2)
When Eleven is first found by someone in the real world, she is given color, a bright yellow at that. This is a significant change to follow the significant change just made in her life (seeing someone outside the research facility and being treated well for the first time in her memorable life). -
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Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers
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Nancy: Ch 2
Nancy's pastel and innocent color scheme carries on into the beginning of the second episode. -
Nancy: Ch 2 (Pt 2)
Nancy's color scheme changes within the second episode- her palette is now average, neutral tones. This change represents the change Nancy is trying to make in herself (she's trying to fit in with the "popular" crowd at school). There is little distinct personality to this color scheme. Also to note, she is wearing stripes- a pattern that Steve, the main boy of the popular crowd that she's dating, always wears. -
Eleven: Ch 2 (Pt 2)
Eleven's color scheme changes from her yellow to navy/grey tones. Her color scheme is beginning to match that of the kids that have taken her in (look to Mike, the boy on the left, who is also wearing mostly navy), representing that she is beginning to identify with something and fit in more. -
Eleven: Ch 2
Enter episode two: Eleven's scheme still includes the yellow from before, but now the also is wearing a beige jacket. This jacket blends in with her surroundings, giving a sense that she is safer now, as this neutral beige is the color of the home of the children who have essentially saved her. -
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Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street
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Eleven: Ch 3
Here Eleven's color scheme has not changed much, but she now has a slightly different toned blue jacket. This blue jacket has a touch of green to it, similar to the color scheme of the "bad" places in the show, i.e. the facility she was held and experimented on and the Upside Down. This could be taken as Eleven not being completely free of this identity yet. -
Nancy: Ch 3
Nancy is seen here wearing Steve's jacket, the leader of the "popular" crowd she is trying to fit in with. The stark grey represents her loss of any individuality when she is surrounded by them. -
Nancy: Ch 3 (Pt 2)
Nancy's more neutral-and-stripes color scheme continues. -
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Chapter 3: Holly, Jolly
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Nancy: Ch 5 (Pt 2)
This is the point that Nancy's new color scheme is born. Nancy, before in her passive light pinks/purples, now wears orange/blue/green tones, not quite opposite her previous colors, but very different. Her colors also have a lot more value to them, as they're much darker colors. Her colors are are serious compared to her old playful colors, representing change in her path. Nancy will no longer be passive and stands up for herself and what will help save the town. -
Eleven: Ch 4
This scene in episode four (about halfway through the season) is a big changing point for Eleven and her color scheme. Eleven now wears a pink dress (that actually fits her properly) and has light hair, very polished and clean colors, a contrast to to the tainted, dark colors from before. She is discovering identity. Also, the boys that saved her and have helped her feel safe put her in these colors, showing that they see good in her. -
Eleven: Ch 5
Eleven's color scheme is mostly unchanged since the last episode, but now her colors appear slightly more washed out. -
Eleven: Ch 4 (Pt 2)
Here is another shot of Eleven's newer, more pure color scheme. The colors are bright and untainted, but she now has the stark contrast of a dark blue (in the form of her aforementioned jacket) somewhat covering the light colors. This light color scheme is not completely true to her yet, as this jacket with part of her old color scheme is still covering it. Her identity is on it's way to being fully realized, though. -
Nancy: Ch 4
Unlike nearly every other time Nancy has had a closer/more intimate encounter with Steve and his crowd, Nancy is no longer wearing stripes. In this episode/scene Nancy realizes that they're not as great as she thought and begins distancing herself from them, so she is back to her old light/pastel scheme. -
Nancy: Ch 5
In the beginning of episode five (about halfway through the season), Nancy's color scheme momentarily changes to black. Nancy has recently found out what's really happening in their town and decides that she must do something about it. The black (coincidentally worn at a funeral) represents the "death" of her old, pastel, passive color scheme. -
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Chapter Four: The Body
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Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat
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Eleven: Ch 6
In this episode, Eleven has lost her wig, part of what made up her pure and light color scheme. She is left with her pink dress, jacket covering it and dirt muting and covering her colors. Eleven has begun to fall apart again and feels destructive, similar to how she felt in the experiment facility (recall the dirt covering her when she first escaped). -
Nancy: Ch 6
Nancy is becoming more comfortable with her newly changed priorities, as she still wears dark tones, but is wearing a purple jacket instead of orange. The orange was a very stark change, telling us bluntly that her character has changed, but that she hasn't necessarily fully gotten used to this. -
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Chapter Six: The Monster
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Eleven: Ch 7
In the final to last episode, Eleven has stripped from her blue jacket. She has decided that she wants to do good and has made her purpose and identity one that is helpful and giving, much different than how she felt when she was contained in the research facility. Eleven has stripped of any color associated with the "bad men" and identifies as her own person, something the boys that gave her the pink dress helped with. -
Nancy: Ch 7
Nancy maintains her new, stronger, and darker color scheme throughout the rest of the season. She continues to grow stronger within as she prepares to fight the monster. -
Eleven: Ch 8
The last time that we see Eleven, she is wearing a plaid shirt over her pink dress. Plaid was the "color" that was worn by Jim Hopper, the cop that helps solve the case throughout the season. Hopper, similar to Eleven, started off very low, struggling with finding something good to identify with, and then found purpose and helped save the town. Eleven sacrifices herself here, and the plaid flannel around her shows comfort and that the people that helped her are with her. -
Nancy: Ch 8
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Nancy: Ch 8 (Pt 2)
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Eleven: Ch 7 (Pt 2)
Here Eleven is still stripped of any color besides the light pink dress. The dress is even faded out, making her look very light and monochromatic, a bright light against the black of her background. She is surrounded by evil and darkness but has put her newly found self forward to break through that and help fight it. -
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Chapter Seven: The Bathtub
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Chapter Eight: Upside Down
