The Craft outfits come down to four characters. Nancy wears black armour: a black PVC coat, crosses layered at the throat and dark lipstick. Sarah starts in a shapeless sweatshirt and a plain dress. Bonnie hides under baggy black. Rochelle wears a tartan skirt, a white polo shirt and braces. Pick one of the four and build it from clothes you would wear on any weekday.
The costumes were never really about witchcraft. Deborah Everton, who designed them for the 1996 film, told Bustle that her job was "to tell the story of each character through what they're wearing". The director, Andrew Fleming, had his own brief, quoted in HuffPost's oral history: "What if those witchcraft girls in high school dressed like they were in The Cure?" And Everton kept the clothes within reach. She told Dazed that "everything had to be what was accessible to a teenage girl at that time". So every look below starts from a feeling and ends in pieces we stock today, with sizes and prices as listed on 11 November 2026.
Key Takeaways
- Pick one girl, not the whole coven. Nancy is armour, Sarah is the girl who has not decided who she is, Bonnie is covered up, Rochelle is tartan and a white collar.
- Everton loosely gave each girl an element. Nancy was fire and Sarah was air; no source we found names an element for Bonnie or Rochelle.
- Plaid, chokers and crosses carry the film. One of the three is enough for an ordinary day; two make it a reference other fans will place.
- A cross is jewellery in the film and a statement of faith for many people. Wear a pendant or earrings, and leave a rosary to those who pray with it.
- Sizes differ by look. Nancy's short jacket reaches XXXL and Rochelle's plaid skirt XXL, the plaid mini goes to 5XL, while the long coat stops at XL and most dresses at L.
What did each witch in The Craft wear?
Each of the four girls dresses for her own state of mind,. Everton told HuffPost: "I gave each girl an element." In Bustle's account she called Nancy fire, "using destruction to rebuild", and Sarah air, "because fire can't really combust without air".
- Nancy (Fairuza Balk) wears a PVC coat, a dog collar and a crucifix with a rosary, in Dazed's list of the film's defining pieces. Everton said "her clothes were like armour to her". Den of Geek calls her "an inferno in black lippy and sunglasses".
- Sarah (Robin Tunney) arrives in what Everton called "a very nondescript beige t-shirt dress and a big, sloppy sweatshirt", because at that point "she's really a non-person, she doesn't know who she is".
- Bonnie (Neve Campbell), as i-D put it, "hides beneath baggy black clothing" because she is ashamed of burn scars from childhood.
- Rochelle (Rachel True) is the tartan skirt, white polo shirt and braces in Dazed's list.
Rachel True told HuffPost that the costumes "were kind of how we were all dressing in the '90s". That is the useful part for us. None of it needs a costume shop.
Nancy: armour in black
Everton said Nancy's "clothes were like armour to her", and her look is the most complete of the four: a black coat, metal at the neck, dark lips. To wear it now, keep the coat and the crosses and drop the dog collar.
The Long Coat takes Nancy's black coat all the way down. It is black faux leather with faux fur at the edges and falls well below the knee in the photographs. It costs $115.69 in XS/S and $232.70 in M, L and XL, and the model is 5'6" in size S. Underneath, wear the Gothic Maxi Dress in Sky Black, an A-line maxi in polyester with a V-neck and thin straps, 116 to 119 cm long depending on size. It is $32.89 in S and $41.41 in M, L and XL.
If you need a size past XL, or a coat that length is more than you want to spend, the Gothic Black Leather Jacket is the short version: biker-cut with silver zips in the photographs, 48 to 53 cm long, in S to XXXL. It is $33.66 in S and $66.27 in every size from M.
Layer the metal. The Cross Coven Necklace sits at choker length, a thin black chain hung with black filigree crosses of different sizes, for $29.99. Below it, the Chained Cross Necklace drops a crystal-set black-and-silver cross from a heavy cable chain, for $24.99. Two lengths at once echoes her crucifix-and-rosary pairing; stop there. Black lipstick and dark glasses finish it, and our goth chokers guide has more ways to build the neckline.
Sarah: the girl in the sloppy sweatshirt
Sarah is the easiest Craft outfit to wear every day, because Everton dressed her to look like nobody in particular. A big sweatshirt over a simple dress is the whole idea. Den of Geek calls her "the audience's way in to the movie", and the clothes say she does not know who she is yet.
We do not sell a beige T-shirt dress, so build a darker version of the same idea. The Grunge Black Sweatshirt is one size, in cotton and polyester, and the listing gives a 55 cm bust, 60 cm length and 50 cm sleeve, so lay a sweatshirt you own flat and compare before you order. The photographs show embroidered dragons down both sleeves. It is $32.13 in black and $38.09 in navy.
Under it, a dress with flowers on it, the California staple Rachel True remembered when she asked, in the oral history, "How does everybody have on the exact same little flower dress?" The Black Floral Mesh Dress is black with deep red roses in the photographs, thin straps and a straight cut, 64 to 66 cm long. It is $30.15 in S and $31.32 in M and L. Let the hem show under the sweatshirt.
At the throat, the Black Velvet Moon Choker: a band of black velvet with a small moon charm and two loops of fine chain, $19.99. It is softer than anything Nancy wears, which is the point.
Bonnie: covered from neck to wrist
Bonnie's outfit is about coverage, so start with sleeves and a high neck and keep everything black. Nothing tight, nothing cut away.
The Grunge Turtleneck with Zip is a black cotton knit with a high neck, 71 cm sleeves and a 100 cm chest width, with zips across the front and a frayed hem in the photographs. It is listed in one size at $33.66, and at 48 cm long it sits at the waist. Below it, the Dahlia Long Skirt is layered black with a sheer lace overlay, tiered in the photographs and falling past the knee. It costs $45.49 in XS/S, M, L and XL.
Wear the sleeves long over your hands and add nothing at the neck; the turtleneck already covers it. That is the version of Bonnie you can wear to work.
Rochelle: tartan, a white collar and braces
Rochelle's look is the school uniform turned into something of her own: a tartan skirt with a white polo shirt and braces. The skirt is what makes it read as The Craft, so spend there.
The Black Grunge Plaid Skirt, No Regrets is pleated dark plaid in polyester, 43 cm long, in XS to XXL. The listing gives each waist, from 65 cm in XS to 86 cm in XXL. It is $37.15 as a skirt alone, in every size. It also comes with a matching cravat, which is the closest thing we stock to a school tie, at $31.75 in XS and $37.15 from S to XXL.
Over a white shirt, add the Invoke Dark Mesh Cardi, a black open knit that buttons down the front, with small white crosses on the collar points in the photographs. It is cut small: S to L, 72 to 80 cm at the bust, $32.89 in S and $41.41 in M and L.
We do not sell a plain white polo shirt or braces for a skirt, and would rather say so than send you to something close. Use a white polo or collared shirt you already own, and plain black knee socks. For more plaid, our skirts collection carries the rest of it.
The uniform for an ordinary day
Bustle describes the coven as having "zhuzhed up their private school uniforms", and the uniform is the easiest part of the film to wear to an office. One collared black piece and one pleated skirt do the work.
The Black Long Sleeve Dress is a black knit dress with long sleeves and a V-neck, finished with a cream collar and a cream band at the hem in the photographs. It reads as a uniform without any plaid at all. It is 79.5 to 82.5 cm long, in S, M and L, at $31.02 in S and $34.51 in M and L.
For the plaid in larger sizes, the Grunge Plaid Mini Skirt runs from XS to 5XL. It is pleated black-and-white plaid, 39 to 41 cm long, with the waist given for every size from 60 cm in XS to 92 cm in 5XL, at $31.37 in XS and $36.71 in every size from S. Our 90s goth fashion guide wears the same skirt in its mall goth look, if you want it with a band tee instead.
How to wear a cross without making it a joke
In The Craft, crosses are part of the costume: Nancy wears a crucifix and a rosary together, and the film treats them as style. Wear yours the same way, as jewellery, and keep in mind that for a great many people a cross is a statement of faith, not decoration. That is our view rather than the film's, and it shapes what we would suggest.
Pick pieces made as jewellery. A rosary is a prayer object, so we would not wear one as a necklace. Keep to one cross motif per outfit unless you are dressing as Nancy, and skip anything that mocks it. The Sacred Cross Earrings are antiqued silver huggie hoops with a small fleur-tipped cross set with one crystal, for $19.99. The Onyx Cross Ring is an adjustable open band in silver tone with a black enamel cross, for $24.99. Our cross necklaces collection has the rest, and our guide to occult symbols in clothing covers how other symbols are read.
Where the sizes stop
Each look reaches a different size, so check the one you want before you build it:
- Nancy: the long coat XS/S to XL, the maxi dress S to XL, the short jacket S to XXXL. Built on the jacket, the look reaches XL; the necklaces have no size.
- Sarah: the sweatshirt is one size, the floral dress S to L.
- Bonnie: the turtleneck is one size (100 cm chest width), the long skirt XS/S to XL.
- Rochelle: the plaid skirt XS to XXL, the cardigan S to L.
- The uniform: the collared dress S to L, the plaid mini XS to 5XL.
Most dresses here stop at L. The plaid mini is the piece that goes furthest, and our plus-size collection and plus-size goth fit guide show where other pieces and brands stop, garment by garment.
Delivery and returns
Orders usually ship within 4 to 8 business days, not counting weekends and holidays, and estimated delivery is 4 to 12 days after that, with 30 days as the stated maximum, according to our shipping policy. For a Halloween or a film night with a fixed date, allow about six weeks. If something does not fit, our return policy gives you 30 days from delivery to send back anything unused and still in its original packaging. You pay the return postage, unless the piece is faulty or we sent the wrong one.
The Craft and the rest of 90s witch style
The Craft opened on 3 May 1996 and is the darker of the two films usually meant by 90s witch style. The softer one is Practical Magic (1998), and our Practical Magic outfits guide dresses its sisters and aunts the same way, one character at a time. Our 90s goth fashion guide puts both films in the decade beside its vampire and club looks.
If the plaid is what you came for, the mall goth guide and the grunge goth guide take it in their own directions. A follow-up film, The Craft: Legacy, written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, went out on premium video on demand on 28 October 2020, SYFY Wire reported.
These are our own picks, inspired by the film. They are not official merchandise and have no connection to its makers.
