The Ghostbusters wore Uniforms (which were CWU-27p Flight Suits) in the movies, though the color varied from light grey, to beige, to navy blue. The costume choice was meant to convey the look of a janitor or exterminator.
Canonicity
Uniforms in the Primary Canon is developed from Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. In Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Versions), a Secondary Canon, Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II pre-date the game, Ghostbusters: Afterlife conflicts with the game. Uniforms appears in the IDW Comic Series, a Secondary Canon, which follows Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II, also includes some elements from Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Realistic Versions) and Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Stylized Versions); as well as being canon to Tobin's Spirit Guide (Insight Editions). Ghostbusters: Legion and Tokyopop, deemed a Tertiary Canon, follows Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II.
Description
Primary Canon Description
The uniforms have the No-Ghost logo, on the right upper arm, and a left breast name tag, displaying the wearer's last name. Elbow pads were also part of the uniform. Common accessories are insulated work gloves and standard-issue lace-up boots.
A hose often connects to the leg on the left side of the flightsuit and by being tucked in under the belt. The exact purpose of this is unclear.
List of Items on or a part of the uniform:
- Belt Gizmo
- Motorola MT500 Radio
- Black Rubber Insulated Electrical Gloves
- Transparent Yellow/Clear Leg Hose
- Khaki WWII Pistol Belt
- Key Fobs
- Holsters
- Corcoran 995 Jump Boots
- Lifegard II Alarm (added in Ghostbusters II)
Secondary Canon Description
Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Realistic Versions
The Realistic versions have the classic tan color much like the first movie. Interestingly even the logo on the sleeve is now the normal No-Ghost logo.
Online Rank Uniforms
Also the online version on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 has ranks which change the colors of the uniform. The list is the following:
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IDW Comics
- Rachel Unglighter introduced a dark blue uniform with red piping and white Electrical Gloves and boots during the Koza'Rai incident.
- Janine Melnitz onced used a variant of the khaki uniform that exposed her middrift and wore shorts instead of pants in the Sam Hain case.
- The dark gray uniform from 1989 are used on occasion but now bear the standard No-Ghost logo.
- Kylie Griffin's standard uniform is the dark gray one.
- Mechanic uniforms colored like ones used by The Real Ghostbusters of Dimension 68-R were used by Ray Stantz and Winston Zeddemore when they worked on Ecto-1.
- The New Ghostbusters wore uniforms with shorts for one case that were colored like ones used by The Real Ghostbusters of Dimension 68-R.
- Ron Alexander continued to use his light cyan standard uniform until the first Tiamat incident.
- The Chicago Ghostbusters standard uniform became navy near the first Tiamat incident.
- Dani Shpak and Lou Kamaka's have uniforms with name tags red letters or in purple letters.
- A variant of the dark gray uniform bore the Ghost Smashers patch for the former female members of that team. The name tags are in purple lettering to match the patch.
- A brown uniform from Ray's wardrobe was briefly worn by Michelangelo in the finale of the Chi-You incident.
- A Cadet khaki uniform was used by those who participated in the Ghostbusters 101 program. The name patches all read "Cadet" instead of a person's name. The name tag is in green lettering.
- Tan and brown uniforms were worn once by Erin Gilbert and Patty Tolan that were colored like ones used by The Real Ghostbusters of Dimension 68-R.
Trivia
Ghostbusters II Trivia
- Costume designer Gloria Gresham came up with the new flightsuits in Ghostbusters II upon Ivan Reitman's request for a new design.[1]
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trivia
- The patches for the flightsuits in Ghostbusters: Afterlife were done by a local company in Calgary.[2]
- Phoebe Spengler finds a Crunch bar in chest pocket of a flightsuit. In the first movie, Chapter 4: Terminated, Peter gave a Crunch bar to Egon after their encounter with the Library ghost.
- Podcast removed the name patch on the flightsuit he used and wrote his name.
- The flightsuits were replicated from the originals down to the small details like the knife pocket being above the seam, using fewer stitches for the patch, using a machine to sew the patches, and matching a repair above the right thumb of Mooglie.[3][4]
- Different sizes of the Spengler flightsuit were made for Mckenna Grace and the stunt actors.[5]
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Trivia
- For Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, 98 total flight suits were made.[6]
- Callie's flight suit was not made correctly by the company hired to make them so costume designer Alexis Forte had the fabric pulled and sent to another company and two flight suits were made in-house with the deadline approaching.[7]
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Trivia
- One of the options for customizing the flightsuit is based on the colors from The Real Ghostbusters.
- A flightsuit called "The Prototype" is earned for completing the game for the first time.
Miscellaneous Trivia
- In the Quickbooks online spot "Happy Business: Ghostbusters," released on December 27, 2019, a deliveryman arrives with clean uniforms but gets slimed by Slimer. On Janine's QuickBooks dashboard, Dry Cleaning expenses are listed as $8,235.
Appearances
Primary Canon Appearances
- Ghostbusters
- Chapter 11: "We Got One!"
- Chapter 12: "He Slimed Me!"
- Chapter 13: "Nice Shootin', Tex."
- Chapter 14: Welcome Aboard
- Chapter 15: E.P.A. Man
- Chapter 20: Keymaster
- Chapter 21: Out of Biz
- Chapter 22: Holding Cell
- Chapter 24: Biblical
- Chapter 25: Working the Crowd
- Chapter 26: Gozer
- Chapter 27: Stay Puft Man
- Chapter 28: Crossing Streams
- Ghostbusters II
- Chapter 01: Start
- Chapter 12: Two in the Box
- Standard and Dark Gray.
- Chapter 16: Vigo 101
- Chapter 17: Fire-Trapped
- Chapter 21: Tenth Level of Hell
- Chapter 22: No Dent
- Chapter 23: The Statue of Liberty
- Chapter 24: A Harbor Chick
- Chapter 25: Breaking and Entering
- Chapter 26: Ghostbusters vs. Vigo
- Chapter 27: The Fifth Ghostbuster
- Chapter 28: World is Safe Again
- Standard and Dark Gray.
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Chapter 06
- Seen in online video only.
- Chapter 07
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Standard and Egon's ethereal version.
- Chapter 06
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Expanded Universe
- Ghostbusters
- Deleted Scences
- Ghostbusters II
Secondary Canon Appearances
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game
- IDW Publishing
- Ghostbusters: The Other Side
- Ghostbusters: Displaced Aggression
- Ghostbusters: Past, Present, and Future
- Dark gray uniform.
- Ghostbusters: Tainted Love
- Ghostbusters: What in Samhain Just Happened?!
- Janine Melnitz uses a variant of the khaki uniform that exposes her middrift and wears shorts.
- Ghostbusters: Haunted Holiday Trade Paperback
- Ghostbusters: Infestation
- Ongoing Series
- Volume One
- All issues except Issue #16.
- Dark gray is also used in Issue #12 and Issue #13.
- Tan and Cyan uniforms, based on The Real Ghostbusters colors, used by Ray and Winston respectively during an Ecto-1 overhaul in Issue #14
- Volume Two
- All issues.
- New Ghostbusters uniforms with shorts also used in Issue #2.
- Dark gray also used in:
- Ron Alexander's light blue New Ghostbusters uniform appears in:
- Issue #2
- Issue #3
- Issue #4
- Issue #5
- Chicago Ghostbusters navy uniforms are also used in:
- Dark gray with Ghost Smashers patches are used in:
- Issue #17
- Issue #18
- Volume One
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Volume One
- Issue #1
- Issue #2
- Issue #3
- Issue #4
- Michelangelo uses a brown uniform variant from Ray.
- Ghostbusters Get Real
- Ghostbusters Annual 2015
- Ron Alexander's light blue New Ghostbusters uniform appears in "Just A Peek"
- Ongoing Series
- Volume Three
- Ghostbusters International #1 to Ghostbusters International #11
- Dark gray also used in:
- Ghostbusters International #4
- Ghostbusters International #6
- Ghostbusters International #7
- Ghostbusters International #9
- Ghostbusters International #11
- Dark gray with Ghost Smashers patch also used in:
- Issue #9
- Issue #11
- Chicago Ghostbusters also used in:
- Issue #9
- Volume Three
- Ghostbusters Annual 2017
- Dark gray used in "Haunted America" and "Pagan's Bust"
- Chicago Ghostbusters used in "Second City"
- Ghostbusters 101
- Issue #1
- Issue #2
- Issue #3
- Cadet uniform also used.
- Issue #4
- Patty Tolan and Erin Gilbert use variant uniforms based on The Real Ghostbusters colors.
- Issue #5
- Issue #6
- Cadet uniform also used.
- Dark gray also used.
- Dark gray with Ghost Smasher patch also used.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters Volume Two
- Ghostbusters Annual 2018
- Dark gray also used.
- Chicago Ghostbusters also used.
- Ghostbusters: Crossing Over
- Issue #1
- Dark gray also used.
- Ron Alexander's New Ghostbusters uniform appears on Cover A.
- Issue #2
- Dark gray also used.
- Chicago Ghostbusters also used.
- Issue #3
- Dark gray also used.
- Chicago Ghostbusters also used.
- Rachel Unglighter appears on Cover RI.
- Issue #4
- Dark gray also used.
- Cadet also used.
- Issue #5
- Dark gray also used.
- Chicago Ghostbusters also used.
- Issue #6
- Dark gray also used.
- Issue #7
- Dark gray also used.
- Chicago Ghostbusters also used.
- Cadet also used.
- Issue #8
- Dark gray also used.
- Issue #1
- Ghostbusters IDW 20/20
- Dimension 50-S only
- Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary: Ghostbusters
- Transformers/Ghostbusters
- Ghostbusters Year One
Tertiary Canon Appearances
- Ghostbusters: Legion
- Tokyopop
- IDW Comics
- Cryptozoic Entertainment
- Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
References
- ↑ Wallace, Daniel (2015). Ghostbusters The Ultimate Visual History, p. 149. Insight Editions, San Rafael CA USA, ISBN 9781608875108. Gloria Gresham says: "When Ivan first called, he was already saying to me that he would like to see a new design, a different ghostbusters costume. I did different shapes, different colors, different fabric. Then we'd go to dailies and we'd look at it on film, and Ivan would say 'No, that's not it.'"
- ↑ dreadmakerroberts Tik Tok "Who made the patches for the Ghostbusters Afterlife uniform?" 00:26-00:34 12/18/2021 Ben Eadie says: "We found out the files were taken to Calgary and we found a tailor or seamstress or company right within the city and they made the patches right there."
- ↑ Tested YouTube "Adam Savage Visits Ghostbusters: Afterlife's Costume Department!" 3:33-3:45 1/12/2022 Danny Glicker says: "Like in this knife pocket in the original suit, this little curve goes above the seam and in flight suits you get now, the curve is way below."
- ↑ Tested YouTube "Adam Savage Visits Ghostbusters: Afterlife's Costume Department!" 4:36-5:19 1/12/2022 Danny Glicker says: " One of the fun things was working with the embroiderer to create this kind of old school process where we were really using a lot more--we were covering a lot more space with a lot fewer stitches exactly like the original patch and everything you see in this patch is an exact replica of the original patch including how we sew it on the original patchs were sewn by machine then with these hand stitches around the ghost and then there's a detail in here that's really special and really insider, there's a repair right here which is an exact reproduction from the original Ghostbusters patch."
- ↑ Tested YouTube "Adam Savage Visits Ghostbusters: Afterlife's Costume Department!" 2:56-3:19 1/12/2022 Danny Glicker says: " So when she wears this suit it looks huge on her but the real one would have looked--the real one would have made it very difficult for her so we actually have different versions of the suit in different sizes so when she sees the suit in the locker, it's much larger as it would be for Spengler but when she has it on, we have a smaller one, her stunt people have different sizes."
- ↑ Countdown City Geeks YouTube "Alexis Forte Interview - Ghostbusters Frozen Empire Costume Designer" 44:47-44:48 3/29/2024 Alexis Forte says: "And for this one, we made 98 suits."
- ↑ Countdown City Geeks YouTube "Alexis Forte Interview - Ghostbusters Frozen Empire Costume Designer" 47:37-47:54 3/29/2024 Alexis Forte says: "We sent someone there the next morning. I was like 'Pull everything from them. I don't want them to make anything else. Just pull it. We'll owe them whatever money we owe them but just take everything away from them.' We brought it to another place and we started making two of hers in-house. So it all worked out."