Australian cinema runs the gamut from Dad and Dave to Picnic at Hanging Rock, with everything from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mad Max, to The Sapphires and The Dressmaker in between. In other words, there’s no simple way to define it.

The breadth of our cinematic landscape is told through the costumes, but these, too, lack a common thread. Which costumes best call to mind the stories told by our films? Is it the wild and outlandish drag-queen dresses of Priscilla? The fin-de-siecle gown worn by Nicole Kidman’s Satine in Moulin Rouge!? Perhaps it is Muriel’s wedding dress, or Miranda’s perfect straw boater, an ultimately haunting symbol of loss from Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock.