Delia Deetz's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Costume Has Easter Egg for 1988 Film: Did You Catch It? (Exclusive)

When Colleen Atwood stepped in to make costumes for Beetlejuice Beetlejuiceshe knew right away that she would keep the iconic pieces true to the original 1988 film and make the rest her own.

This meant keeping the characters true to the ones audiences met in 1988, just 36 years later. And while fans may be looking for Easter eggs for the original film, they won’t find much in the way of costumes.

There are, of course, callbacks to the original film. You can’t really avoid them when you have the same characters with a similar story. But Atwood tells PEOPLE that her “major costuming accessories” were Beetlejuice’s suit, of course, and a few familiar outfits that audiences will recognize.

“The rest went away and I did my thing,” she says of going back to the original.

There is only one real Easter egg, she says Beetlejuice Beetlejuice costumes — and in Catherine O’Hara’s Delia Deetz look.

If you haven’t seen the movie yet, there is a spoiler ahead!

Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz, Jenna Ortega as Astrid Deetz, Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz and Justin Theroux as Rory in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’.

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IN Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceJeffrey Jones’ Charles Deetz dies on a bird-watching expedition (the actor does not appear in the film), and his family is left to mourn him. Of course, his death calls for a funeral – and that’s where eagle-eyed fans might find one famous wardrobe staple.

“One real Easter egg in the movie from the last movie is that Catherine wears the top hat she wore in the first movie to the funeral that she kept,” Atwood reveals to PEOPLE. “She brought it and we say, ‘Let’s use it for the funeral. It’ll be perfect.'”

In the original film, Delia wears a hat for the second half of the film, although the older iteration sees it tied with red and black tulle. She wears it with a gray outfit (the red adds a very appropriate pop of color) for the scenes leading up to what becomes the climax where her daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder) has to marry Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton).

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Catherine O’Hara in ‘Beetlejuice’ from 1998.

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He has another hat Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which looks strikingly familiar, and it’s the one Ryder wears at the very end of the film, in the dream sequence where she and Astrid (Jenna Ortega) are in Dracula’s castle. In the close-up, she wears a wide-brimmed black hat that could easily pass for the same hat worn by teenage Lydia bug juice.

Winona Ryder in ‘Beetlejuice’.

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In this case, Atwood tells PEOPLE that it’s not even a coincidence — but that Ryder really does embody Lydia, as the hat she’s wearing in the scene is one of her hats. Atwood didn’t even provide it for her.

“What’s really funny is that hat, that weird visor thing he’s wearing [in the scene]Winona wears it around her to protect her from the sun,” Atwood says. “It was a wonderfully sunny day in England and we were shooting outside and we said, ‘We really need a hat for her.’ We did the first round. We paid homage to that early look, and then I think the scene we intended to use didn’t happen. It was actually her personal visor, but we put it on her for that scene. It was touristy and funny. That’s how it came about. It was a random thing.”

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