Debbie Jellinsky: So I killed. So I maimed. So I destroyed one innocent life after another. Aren't I a human being? Don't I yearn, and ache, and... shop? Don't I deserve love... and jewelry?Glamourous psychopath Debbie Jelinski was hot. Hot. Portrayed by the decidedly not-hot Joan Cusack in the 1993 film Addams Family Values, Debbie was always outfitted in fashionable, Marilyn Monroe-inspired looks.
Head-to-toe white or pastels were Debbie's uniform, along with lavish accessories like diamonds, feathers, and furs. Her character was meant to evoke chic 1950's style, and flipped the idea of the villain on it's head as the Black Widow trying to get the Addams fortune. Instead of wearing the usual dark clothes used to portray an antagonist as evil, she had to be the opposite of the Addams Family, with their dark and macabre nature. A such, her luxurious, revealing, and form-fitting outfits ended up being deliciously terrifying. They also managed to hide her brutal nature when it came to seducing Fester Addams.
Everything Debbie wore was meant to lure in men as potential victims: plunging, v-shaped necklines, tightly fitted skirts, and sculpted dresses to display her body. She also often belted her jackets and dresses to give herself an hourglass figure.
She became known as the Black Widow after marrying and murdering many times to get to her husbands' money. Debbie killed to fund her swanky lifetstyle: two towncars, mansions in the suburbs, and a wardrobe Betty Draper would kill for.After luring Fester away from his family, she even proceeded to give him a little makeover of his own:
She might have been crazy as a loon, but the woman had style. 
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