- Why are you dressed like that?

- Costumes tell you who the characters are.

Color plays a large part in it,

but you can't just judge a book by its cover

because it all tells a story.

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My name is Johnetta Boone,

and I'm the costume designer in "Yellowstone".

- Here, get dressed in the car.

- I'm responsible for dressing not just the entire cast

on the show, but also for dressing

basically everyone who's in clothes,

from uniforms, to civilian wear,

to western wear, just everything.

I went to a performing arts high school in DC

and I never thought that this would ever become

a career for myself.

At the time, it was only Los Angeles in the '70s

that was producing films.

- I hate that place.

- Once I left the DC area and went to New York

to go to college, I went to FIT and studied

both fashion design and merchandising.

I actually ended up working as an assistant fashion stylist

and shifted over into both film and television.

Ruth Carter, who did season one,

actually worked together in the '90s.

I was a costume supervisor on a TV show that she did,

and I took lots of notes. (laughs)

Everyone has a color palette

that they sort of live inside of.

JD, or John Dutton, and then Beth, and then Kayce,

and then I sort of went from there.

The closets were quite established already

so I was able to pull from that.

It's really important also for the cast and the characters

to continue the story.

It was more important for me to do that

rather than to start from scratch.

- I don't know where to start.

- Well, I must say iconically the JD jacket

was the first thing that popped,

which is the taupe with the rust western yoke.

It was perfect.

It fit him perfectly, and then I was able to build

his additional costumes from there.

He also has designers that he wears that are very specific,

even in jeans, because they fit well.

And that's what you wanna go with

is when it fits you don't wanna break what's not broken.

- Truer words were never spoken.

- The very first thing that I do when I get a script,

is I read it more than once because, as you know,

when you read something one time,

you may skip over some very fine details.

So I read it twice, sometimes three times, just to get

what Taylor Sheridan, who's our creator, is communicating.

And in this particular case, it's all very pictorial

when he puts it on the page.

- That paints quite a picture.

- If you're paying enough attention,

it'll jump right out at you

and describe with an underlying description,

what the palette is.

And then I will go in and break down

how many days there are in the script.

And then that's what determines how many changes

the character will have.

Sometimes they have more than one change during the day,

depending on what it is that they're doing.

So for instance, the cowboys,

when they're out working during the day,

they're in one costume,

but then they may shower and change

and be in something different for the evening.

And then once I go beyond the continuity

and the breaking down of the script,

then I start to really get into the nuts and bolts

of how to build the costume.

- She's perfect.

Trust me, hire her.

- Everyone has a list of goals.

So my bucket list of goals for doing shows

was to do a western.

Most westerns are period, and this one was contemporary

so it was perfect.

I was so excited.

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