Welcome to Gilead, a mennonite dystopia where Aunt Lydia’s School for Future Wives resides. A school where girls’ clothing defines their status at the infamous institution in The Testaments, Hulu’s sequel series to The Handmaid’s Tale. Growing up in Gilead is all these girls have ever known, not remembering anything from their lives before or from the outside world.
These girls are locked within this “school” as a means to make them become perfectly groomed women whose only intention is to become future brides, and if they are extraordinarily perfect, mothers. The show draws attention to the mean rivalries, forbidden love, and sexual curiosities that are normal for womanhood but are being suppressed within the walls of the school.
The students within the school can wear either pink, plum, or pearl, and although this classifies their age, experience, and class, they all must abide by the same rules set within the school.