That's a terrific question. The answer, however, is
problematic. If you are putting on the play and it is true to its time period, then you
would need to research how women of stature and royalty were dressed nearly a thousand
years ago in Scotland. Good luck with that. If you are staging the play in modern times,
things will be much easier as you have a familiar frame of
reference.
But whatever time period you choose, remember
that Macbeth is a play filled with opposites and contradictions...
fair is foul and foul is fair. Thus, however you dress Lady Macbeth, make it lovely and
feminine, for she is really treacherous and masculine. Early in the play, go with light
colors and frills, clothes that are at once enticing and tasteful, simple, yet elegant.
And when she has become the queen, definitely bedeck her with jewelry: bangle earrings
and jeweled necklaces, gold bracelets and sparkling crowns.
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