If you follow my blog you know that I used bum pads to create the historical feel in the recent production of “Cinderella” that I costumed. You can read my original bum pad post here. I absolutely fell in love with this silhouette during the show, and I went back and stuffed Charlotte’s pad fuller . .…
I am finally getting close to the end of the ball gowns . . . if I counted correctly, this is the 20th post. In addition to the dresses that were upcycled, there were a number that were useable “as is”, particularly some late 1980’s taffeta Prom dresses. There were a few that other…
Cinderella / Costume / Fairytale / sewing / upcycle
When I am out thrift store shopping if I come across a great garment in a plus size I am pretty excited ,and I have a low threshold for picking things up for my stash. These finds are typically infrequent, in part because the people wearing vintage clothes were often smaller than many people today…
Cinderella / Costume / Fairytale / sewing / upcycle
As word of our production spread, and a few teaser photos were posted on Facebook . . . donations of dresses started coming in. I would walk in to the costume room and a new one would be hanging there . . . someone would show up at my door . . . . a…
alteration / cheap / Cinderella / Costume / Fairytale / sewing / upcycle
This upcycle was another project that was happening in the last few days before the show. I always like to arrange my mental calendar so that I have a pocket of “free” time where I can fix costumes that either don’t fit the cast member, or just don’t fit in with the other costumes. …
I haven’t done a post about Madame up to this point, in large part because I didn’t make any of her costumes. However, I did want to show how we did her wedding costume, and as long as I was doing that I thought I would share the rest. Madame needs, at a minimum, a…
This is my last quicky wedding wear costume to blog about. I saved this one for last because it is my least favorite dress. I thought the colors would blend together, but, they really didn’t. There are components of it that I really like, so I think it is worth describing, but it just didn’t “click”. […]
This post is about another one of the neutral “wedding wear” dresses that members of the chorus wore to the finale of “Cinderella”. This is not my favorite dress close-up, but I do like it better from a distance. This costume began with a base dress. This is actually the remnants of a dress. Once…
This post is a description of how I upcycled the dress that is 2nd from the left. As I have mentioned in previous posts, I had so much fun doing these dresses. They were super quick with the emphasis being on the general overall color-effect of the wedding, versus worrying about style, time period, etc.…
The closing wedding scene in “Cinderella” was one of my favorite visual pictures from our show. These dresses were actually really fun to make because I knew they would be on stage for only a few minutes and they were really only for background color . . so quick and dirty costume creation was…
If you have been reading my blog, I discussed some of my decision making process regarding armor when I posted about dressing Topher. Prior to that, I had spent quite a bit of time searching for inexpensive armor both a year ago when my sister was costuming this show, and then again in the fall…
The new version of “Cinderella” the Prologue opens with a lovely choral piece (cut from “South Pacific” incidentally) where we find Ella roaming the woods and picking up sticks. In a rapid juxtaposition, the scene changes to a “Rocky Glen” and we find the Knights engaged in battle with a “Giant”. The scene is described…
