Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed that she still has a pair of her signature boots from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

The 45-year-old was doing a Who What Wear retrospective of her old onscreen costumes, with a special segment reserved for her star-making turn as Buffy.

‘We used to say: “When the boots went on, you know the fighting was going to happen,”‘ she said. ‘I still have a pair of those boots in my house that I still fit into.’

Throwback: Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed that she still has a pair of her signature boots from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Throwback: Sarah Michelle Gellar revealed that she still has a pair of her signature boots from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Sarah Michelle became a TV star on the pioneering fantasy show, created by the future Marvel Cinematic Universe dynamo Joss Whedon. 

‘What did I keep from my Buffy wardrobe?’ she mused. ‘I wish I would have understood to keep more of it – not that necessarily that was an option, because the studios like to take it back, but you don’t realize the sentimental importance that you’d have on something like that later. ‘

She confessed: ‘A lot of times at the end of an episode you’re so sick of looking at an outfit that you don’t always take it – again, if the option was available.’

Sarah Michelle, who is currently starring on the Apple TV+ series Wolf Pack from the creator of Teen Wolf, added slyly: ‘Now I don’t make that mistake anymore.’ 

Looking back: The 45-year-old was doing a Who What Wear retrospective of her old onscreen costumes, with a special segment reserved for her star-making turn as Buffy

Looking back: The 45-year-old was doing a Who What Wear retrospective of her old onscreen costumes, with a special segment reserved for her star-making turn as Buffy

Candor: She confessed: 'A lot of times at the end of an episode you're so sick of looking at an outfit that you don't always take it - again, if the option was available'

Candor: She confessed: ‘A lot of times at the end of an episode you’re so sick of looking at an outfit that you don’t always take it – again, if the option was available’

Recollections: 'What did I keep from my Buffy wardrobe?' she mused, saying: 'I wish I would have understood to keep more of it'

Recollections: ‘What did I keep from my Buffy wardrobe?’ she mused, saying: ‘I wish I would have understood to keep more of it’

With a cast that featured Seth Green and Anthony Stewart Head, Buffy enjoyed a successful seven-season run from 1997 to 2003.

‘Buffy’s costumes were a huge part of who she was and what she was experiencing at that moment,’ Sarah Michelle explained in the new retrospective.

‘When you first meet her she’s this traditional, essential Valley girl, California girl that doesn’t want the weight of her world on her shoulders, and she dressed accordingly.’

Sarah Michelle went on: ‘But as she accepted the power and the responsibility her outfits sort of progressed with that.’

Unmistakable: 'We used to say: "When the boots went on, you know the fighting was going to happen,"' she said, adding: 'I still have a pair of those boots in my house that I still fit into'

Unmistakable: ‘We used to say: “When the boots went on, you know the fighting was going to happen,”‘ she said, adding: ‘I still have a pair of those boots in my house that I still fit into’

She argued that ‘Buffy was always fashionable. I think it was one of the first real female heroines that you saw who did not sacrifice fashion for killing.’

Over the course of the video she also looked back at her 1999 teen drama Cruel Intentions, based on the same 18th century novel as Dangerous Liaisons.

The cult classic features a memorable scene where Sarah Michelle’s character models a now infamous corset to entice her stepbrother played by Ryan Phillippe.

Sarah Michelle dished that the costume piece came from the Los Angeles store Trashy Lingerie, which has become a local landmark.

That corset: Over the course of the video she also looked back at her 1999 teen drama Cruel Intentions, based on the same 18th century novel as Dangerous Liaisons

That corset: Over the course of the video she also looked back at her 1999 teen drama Cruel Intentions, based on the same 18th century novel as Dangerous Liaisons

Having just entered her 20s, she ‘got all blushy and shy’ when she was first informed she was going to visit the shop in order to be fitted for the corset. 

She made sure to include her reflections on her look from her lesbian kiss with Selma Blair, who in real life has become a lifelong friend of hers.

Sarah Michelle had a ‘vision’ of the massive black hat she would wear in the scene, ‘not quite Breakfast At Tiffany’s, but like ginormous and they don’t, they’re not very common, and so we called it the “church hat” and we had to go to a store that like specialized in Easter Sunday-type outfits.’

Upon arrival she found that ‘all the hats were blue and pink and it was definitely like, we went all over Los Angeles to find like the perfect black hat for that scene.’

'Ginormous': She made sure to include her reflections on her look from her lesbian kiss with Selma Blair, who in real life has become a lifelong friend of hers

‘Ginormous’: She made sure to include her reflections on her look from her lesbian kiss with Selma Blair, who in real life has become a lifelong friend of hers



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