Celes wears two different outfits in the game- her normal uniform and Maria's
dress during the opera scene. There are different variations of these two
outfits: those based on her sprite form in the game, those based on her
design in the FMVs, those featured in Amano's character designs, and the ones
shown on the sprite trading cards.
Celes is tall for a woman at 5'7" and very slender, weighing only 127 lbs.
She has blue eyes and long blond hair that falls at least half-way down her
back.
Celes'
sprite outfit basically looks
like she's wearing a green bodysuit, a blue belt, blue boots, shoulder pads, a
white cape, a
blue bracelet (or
clasp) on both wrists, and either two blue hair clasps or a
blue bandana that doesn't cover her forehead.
In the
SD sprite drawings,
Celes is basically the same as her in-game version, except she is
explicitly drawn with a blue bandana. Her boots and bracelets are
also trimmed with yellow.
Celes, when dressing as Maria, appears to be wearing a long white dress
with a scooping neckline. The
front
of the dress has some blue on the bodice. She is either wearing
blue bracelets, or the dress has blue on the collars. In her hair,
Celes has a
large dark-green bow
with a green clasp in her ponytail.
The FMVs are based on
Amano's original designs for
Celes. Celes' uniform is completely different from her in-game sprite
uniform. The sprite one, though cute, doesn't seem fitting for a general
to wear. Two example pictures of Celes' uniform are here:
Celes' entire body at a slight angle
and a close-up of
Celes' top.
Celes' has a
dark brown top (a
shoulderless bodice?) that goes around her chest and is trimmed with a
tanish gold color. In some pictures, it looks purple, and overall has a
purplish tint. In the FMVs, she wears a
short vest over the top, also tanish gold, though in
Amano's artwork, she sometimes doesn't. Around her waist is a
light belt of the same material as
the vest. She has interesting
arm-wear which starts on her arm near her chest, and
the material continues down until her wrists, where it's cut off. The
arm-thing has ties on the side at their tops. Celes' pants are made of the
same material as her arm-things, her vest, and her belt, and is the same
color. The
sides of her pants
near the hip have slits with a cross tie pattern across them. The pants
continue down until they reach Celes'
boots, which are pale brown. Around Celes' wrists are
bracelets; she wears a
necklace with a single bead on
it, and she has strange,
dangling
earrings. The
clasp that
pulls her hair back is intricately designed.
Celes' Maria outfit is really beautifully designed and complex in the FMVs. It
has a very European feel to it. I don't think anyone could ever cosplay as her
because her dress is much too
delicately
embroidered. The dress itself is a pale, ivory color, trimmed with a
slightly darker to light brown patterns and lace. The FMVs decided to give Celes'
outfit a blue tinge. Her
bow and hair
clasp are blue, her
front bow
is blue with a dark blue gem in its center. The
blue ribbons at the end of her sleeves are made of the same
material as the dress's front bow. Though it looks like she is wearing gloves
in the picture, in the actual FMVs, she does not. Celes wears an interesting
necklace and has her normal
dangling pearl-like earrings. For her opera scene, she carries a
bouquet of red roses tied up
with a blue bow.
