The theme for dressing Charlotte in this show was “more”, and her Ball Gown needed to be reflective of that. On the flip side, it also needed to be in line with the rest of the cast, and not obnoxious in a distasteful way. We began with this Prom dress: The dress was a strapless,…
Charlotte’s first appearance in the musical is returning from shopping and handing her package to Ella to be carried in to the house. We found some tiny boxes for her and Gabrielle to carry and tied them with bows to match their dresses. Charlotte’s hair is discussed here. She wears a little pillbox hat that we…
I have been vacillating back and forth the best way to approach blogging about costuming the various characters in “Cinderella”. Do you start with a synopsis and follow up with the individual costume posts . . . or do you write up the individual costume posts and then follow with a wrap-up summary? I decided…
If any of you read my first post about Cinderella, you know that I REALLY wanted to re-create a high-school-budget-version of the wonderfully over-the-top ball gowns found in the Broadway version of “Cinderella”. The magical lifts and twirling skirts weave a wonderfully fanciful image of a Fairytale land ball–something every little girl would dream of attending. Figuring…
Toward the end, as I was running short of time, sleeve puffs became one of my favored “quick fix” additions to Prom dresses. Some of the dresses also were really just fine as-is, and didn’t need major overhauls. As community members saw some “sneak peak” posts on social media and heard about what we we…
Cinderella = Glass Slippers. There isn’t a whole lot you can do to avoid them. The question is . . what exactly does a glass slipper LOOK like? And where do you get one? And how important are they? The easiest answer is to google glass slippers, and you come up with a couple of…
What would YOU wear to cover your ball gown when going to the ball? Well, a voluminous, flowy cape of course! Knowing it would take a TON of fabric to make a floor length cape to cover a ball gown, and having a real dislike of doing more work than I need to . .…
The Ball in “Cinderella” begins as a masked affair. The Prince is wearing a white mask, and Gabrielle a pink mask. Sebastian and Madame plot for them to meet based on the color of the masks. I needed around 40 masks for the Gavotte dancers and the wallflowers. I wanted ones that had fairly large…
One of the last dresses I had donated was a lovely lemon yellow Prom dress. The dress had a very thin halter top strap. The bodice was covered with a layer of mesh tulle embroidered with sequins and beads. The top layer of tulle had some beading and sequins. The dress had a side zip.…
I am almost getting to the end of the Cinderella Waltz dancers. I put these eight girls in pastels and tried to make their dresses fairly homogeneous. This next dress wasn’t my first choice, but I was running out of time and options. I began with this older Prom dress: The lack of a…
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