What You Likely Never Noticed About JJ's Costume In Criminal Minds
By Robert King
When "Criminal Minds" premiered on CBS in 2005, Jennifer Jareau served as the Behavioral Analysis Unit's communication liaison. In that role, JJ's main responsibility was to update the local media and law enforcement on the unit's progress in apprehending that week's unknown subject, or unsub. Though she was an FBI agent when she joined the team, she wasn't a profiler like her BAU colleagues.
In a 2017 interview with "Criminal Minds Brazil," the series' longtime costume designer, BJ Rogers, discussed JJ's clothing, noting that when viewers first meet her, JJ is wearing a skirt and heels. While that attire might be common among traditional media liaisons, it was ill-suited to someone working in the field. In an early episode, JJ is seen walking across a park ... in heels. For Rogers, that visual spoke to JJ's newness to fieldwork and her office-based background where she mostly performed her job behind a desk.
