Let's rank all of Midge's standup outfits from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

In the series premiere, Midge’s husband, Joel, announces that he is leaving her for his secretary, Penny Pan. Drunk and heartbroken, Midge makes her way downtown to the Gaslight Cafe, wearing only her light blue nightgown trimmed in lace underneath her pink coat. She accidentally wanders into the spotlight and begins breaking down the breakdown of her marriage, marking her unofficial stage debut. The set ends with her arrest for public indecency (she flashes the audience) and meeting the famous comedian (and soon-to-be friend) Lenny Bruce in the back of the police car. What a memorable way to make an entrance into the world of standup comedy.

As she launches into her new comedy career, Midge finds herself smoking weed for the first time outside a jazz club with Lenny Bruce and Lindsey Trent and the Hot Three. Midge’s outfit, while still sophisticated, is a bit more relaxed than we’ve seen thus far in the series, wearing a plum-colored, long-sleeved shirt, cigarette pants underneath a long yellow coat, plus flats and a headscarf as her accessories. The bohemian look is a nod to the European influences on New York City during that era. As she is wont to do, Midge finds herself onstage and at the mic and shares a habitual stream-of-consciousness. It leads to one of her more serious standup sets as she questions compulsory motherhood for women in the 1950s. She wonders, “What if I wasn’t supposed to be a mother?”

As she polishes her tight ten, Midge also adjusts her presentation as a comedian, trying on different stage names and outfits. She swaps her usual fit-and-flare silhouette for a bold, plaid-patterned pencil dress and a large black bow that goes hand-in-hand with the shedding of her life as a housewife and transforming into a comic. The boldness of her outfit matches the topic of one of her sets at the Gaslight Cafe—a mocking exposure of legendary comedian Sophie Lennon’s double life. And it leads her to ask the question, “Why do women have to pretend to be something they’re not?”

What do you wear to be the warm up act for your nemesis’ game show? Why, a fashionable black halter dress with two bow-sashes at the waist, of course. Midge is all smiles with her pop of pink as she prepares the audience for Sophie Lennon’s show Seconds Count, enjoying her interactive set, until a jealous Sophie interrupts. They both battle for the audience’s attention and affection, one-upping each other with increasingly hurtful jokes, until the stage manager says it’s time for places.

Midge puts a fun twist on her ol’ reliable for her TV debut: the classic pearls and little black dress, but with a bubble hem. The peppy outfit highlights her eagerness to make the best of her set for the “Stop Arthritis & Rheumatism” telethon, which was pushed back from 9:50 p.m. to the final slot at 11:55 p.m., courtesy of her nemesis Sophie Lennon. Even with just a handful of people in the studio audience and the confetti sweeper making an impromptu cameo, Midge’s enthusiasm keeps the in-studio and at-home viewers laughing. So much so that she catches the attention of singer Shy Baldwin, who invites her to open for him on his upcoming tour.

Upon returning to New York City after the first leg of her tour with Shy Baldwin, Midge heads uptown to perform with him at Harlem’s famous Apollo Theatre in the season-three finale. Her imposing sequined, pink, floral fit-and-flare dress with an extravagant bow at her waist visually conceals the nerves she’s feeling before her set. After a backstage chat with beloved comedian Moms Mabley and her manager, Midge feels insecure about being a white comedian performing on the iconic Apollo stage for an all-Black audience. Riffing off of advice from Shy’s manager Reggie, she tries to get comfortable and connect with the audience by telling jokes about her time spent with Shy. Ultimately, she outs his sexuality to the audience, which gets her kicked off the rest of the tour.

Still hurting from being kicked off of Shy Baldwin’s tour at the end of season three, Midge is dragged by Susie to a downtown club in a bright coral V-neck dress embellished with buttons and a belt. The club’s manager Bobby, who isn’t a fan of women comics, won’t let Midge perform, especially because of her very public and very humiliating dismissal from Shy Baldwin. However, with bottom-of-the-barrel comic Billy Jones out on a smoke break when his name is called for his set, Susie locks him out, and Midge takes the stage to replicate his set (“better and in heels!”), highlighting the misogyny of his jokes. Bobby has her removed from the stage mid-sentence, banning her for life because of her impressive, impromptu impersonation.

“1960 … change is coming,” Midge asserts to the audience—which includes her parents—as she opens for Shy Baldwin at Miami’s Fontainebleau hotel. She, too, has made a change to her signature black dress, swapping a fit-and-flare look for a pencil dress silhouette and adding pink and black feathers at the hem for a bolder texture. Midge’s striking outfit supports her discussion of navigating the changing political landscape as a woman, including the newly approved birth-control pill. She questions if she can be taken seriously while also enjoying more frivolous aspects of life, asking, “Does being a modern woman mean I have to give up being a girl?” Like, can’t she want President JFK to enact his six-point healthcare plan and dump Jackie to marry her? The crowd’s cheers and laughter point to yes.

During her trip to Paris with her father to retrieve her mother, Midge finds herself in a French drag club in season two’s premiere episode. Wearing a light blue dress and jacket set, a pink beret, and crimson gloves, Midge looks trés chic when she inadvertently ends up onstage and at the mic. Introduced simply as “Miss America,” Midge begins interacting with the audience, finding a fellow New Yorker in the audience who is fluent in French to translate her entire set. She recaps her season-one journey while highlighting cultural differences between America and France.

Donning a navy blue dress with light pink stripes on wide lapels, Midge takes to the sea to perform a set for “Ditty-Doo Diaper Cream,” a potential sponsor for The Gordon Ford Show. As a mom who is very familiar with the product, she has plenty of on-topic jokes in her arsenal, saving the day and the potential partnership when Gordon refuses to attend the event. At first, the gig is smooth sailing, with Midge getting big laughs from the advertisers during her set. It’s when she rescues a female server from sexual harassment with one of the company’s execs that she drifts into choppy waters with farcical arrest charges.

Zakowska was inspired by Audrey Hepburn’s Givenchy bridal look in Funny Face for Midge’s introductory look. The audience meets the newly betrothed Mrs. Maisel in the very first shot of the series, where she is dolled up in her wedding outfit—an elegant ivory, tea-length, tulle and lace dress and a shoulder length veil pinned to her hair with a white bow. No, we don’t see her reciting her vows or kissing her groom. She is giving a comedic toast at her reception, providing an unknowing glimpse of what’s to come in her future. “Who does that?” she asks, playfully. A future standup comedian, that’s who.

After a heated Yom Kippur dinner, Midge storms into the Gaslight Cafe with a ruby red dress with a Queen Anne neckline to match her mood. Zakowska designed the outfit with a “strength and power” in mind for the character. Susie pushes the artist who is mid-performance off the stage so Midge can begin her set without losing steam. Midge’s bewilderment spills out as she reveals that she learned during dinner that her father-in-law owned her house, and now that she and her husband are getting divorced, she has no idea where she is going to live. After mocking Officer Peluso—the cop who arrested her during her first set—when he walks up to the stage during her set, Midge finds herself in jail once again.

For her first gig with the famous singer Shy Baldwin, Midge shows off her patriotism in her gorgeous navy blue, empire-waist, halter dress with a flowing red bow down the back, plus elbow-length, white gloves, and a bedazzled red-blue-and-silver hair clip. Performing at a USO show, Midge relates to the soldiers by translating what military lingo could mean in more salacious contexts and by imagining the military version of women-interest magazine articles.

Taking place minutes before an unexpected raid at the Wolford Burlesque Club, Midge solemnly reflects on the emotional endurance of men versus women during the season four finale. Wearing a stunning black and magenta fit-and-flare dress with a cerulean belt, she hits the stage after her father-in-law Moishe ends up at the hospital due to a heart attack. Instead of her typical fast-paced, comedic stream-of-consciousness, Midge recounts moments of vulnerability from the men in her life and shares somber observations regarding the fortitude and quiet industriousness of nurses compared to doctors who operate with a god-like attitude. Midge asks, “Are women more important than god? What if we discover one day that we were always the ones in charge?”

At the end of season one’s finale, Midge has found her signature look, reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany’s: two strings of pearls around her neck to compliment her black, A-line dress featuring bows on both shoulders. With her ex-husband Joel watching from the audience, she performs a triumphant set, despite hecklers in the audience. Midge also reveals the stage name she has finally settled on after her comedy comrade Lenny Bruce prompts her in his introduction. In the final line of the season, she signs off from her set and the episode with, “My name is Mrs. Maisel, thank you and good night!”