Get the boys' look from High School Musical 3: Senior Year

It’s just over two years since High School Musical first hit UK shores and the word phenomenon comes nowhere close. Just a Disney TV movie, it should have aired, maybe shifted a few DVDs and then been forgotten. Not HSM. It defied its humble roots to break TV viewing figures, its soundtrack became 2006’s biggest selling CD in the USA and it spawned an entertainment empire that includes a stage musical, reality TV contest and an ice show. This golden touch continued with its 2007 follow-up High School Musical 2 which further established the star credentials of Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale and the musical magic looks set to continue with the franchise’s first cinematic outing, High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

It’s a sizeable step up for the small screen pin-ups as with this grander format comes a bigger budget and bigger expectations, yet nowhere is this progression more discernable than in the fashions flaunted by the core characters. Riding onboard the HSM juggernaut for the first time is costume designer Caroline Marx who understands the heightened ambitions, explaining: “they’re all grown-up; it’s the big screen now.” And so as the Wild Cats prepare to graduate from East High, we sneak a peek into their wardrobes to see how the likes of Efron’s basketball star Troy Bolton, his best mate Chad Danforth (Corbin Bleu) and drama club co-president Ryan Evans (Lucas Grabeel) are dressing for this, their senior year.