An excerpt from Movieline's September 1998 article.. WE KNOW WHAT THEY WORE THIS SUMMER by Stephen Rebello. ...

The late summer Halloween:H20 is another mall-made movie, even though costume designer Deborah Everton claims, "I hate to shop and I avoid malls." This reinvention of the Halloween movie franchise is set in a boarding school where a group of students are terrorized while their classmates are off on a camping trip. "What made H20 especially fun," says Everton, "was that the kids wear uniforms. Having gone to boarding school myself, I know that you do all you can to turn that uniform into a personal expression.I had some girls wear pants as part of the uniform instead of a skirt, and I varied the skirt length for the others. We also used stockings, socks, Hush Puppies- anything to give each of the student characters some personal expression. I even put jewelry by Sonya Ooten on some of the girls. The biggest mistake I've seen on movies featuring young characters is treating teenagers as if they're of one mind."

Not all of H20 is in uniform. "For the scenes out of uniform, I used mostly American Eagle Outfitters for the guys, a fantastic line of very basic, very stylish, really nicely cut, cool stuff. Both Josh Harnett (of TV's "Cracker") and Adam Hann-Byrd (of The Ice Storm) wore pretty much American Eagle Outfitters right to the toes of their boots. We tried as much as we could to stay away from oversized jeans, because that look just dates so. For Michelle Williams (Another "Dawson's Creek" doll), I chose a pair of cotton Lycra Only Hearts pants, an American Eagle Outfitters top, a nice hooded sweater by BCBG Max Azria and a BCBG pullover. I wanted her to wear a pair of Betsey Johnson tie-dyed velvet hip huggers, but she didn't feel comfortable in the tie-dye look or the color, so I switched it for a more hip-hop, black outfit. For Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (of TV's "Nash Bridges") I chose a red floral Vivienne Tam top, a great, almost Olive Oyl kind of dress from She by Sheri Bodell and some terrific Doc Martens."

One of the cool things about H20 is that, in additionto its choice cast of teens, it stars Jamie Lee Curtis as a grown-up Laurie Strode, heroine of the first twoHalloween outings. "The clothes that bring Laurie Strode to the 90's are conservative," says Everton. "They're classic almost in a Hitchcock sort of way- a charcoal Donna Karen sweater, Guess? jeans. Laurie is the head of the boarding school, and I basically shopped Nordstrom for her Calvin Klein blazer and Nickels shoes. I'd say her look in this is not Sears, not Barneys, that she's womanly, not a siren." H20 also features Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, whose impeccable credentials as a heroine-in-jeopardy include that memorable role in the classic that's now being remade, Psycho. No mall mélange for her- she sports "a custom-made Oscar de la Renta leather purse that cost a fortune and was based on the black purse that her character stuffed the stolen money into in Hitchcock's Psycho."....