The second dress that Baroness Bomburst wears comes with these lines: Your Director may or may not choose to emphasize these lines, and your costume choice may be affected by that decision. I was basing my costume knowledge on youtube videos . . . so I just made a “variation-on-a-theme” partial costume change for the…
Baroness Bomburst is a great character to costume. There are few preconceived standards (Belle she is not), and there are so many ways to play her that the possibilities are wide open. My instructions were red and black (with possibly some gray) and OVER-THE-TOP . . . think “Capitol City”. Since Vulgaria is an imaginary…
One of my last projects was the formal jacket for Baron Bomburst (I’m going out-of-order . . I got tired of writing about Fun Fair costumes). My instructions were that it should be over-the-top and made in red & black, and it could have some gray, but no white. While my jacket works well for…
My sister had sent a list with all of her costume “needs” on it and one of the items they still needed was a dress for Jemima to wear to the beach. They wanted something “beachy”, but leaning more dress than a bathing suit. I happened to see this dress at a thrift store and…
Now that I bit the bullet and finished up with “High School Musical” I will turn back to “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. This has been a different experience for me since I am trying to create costumes for someone elses show without direct access to the other costumes, the cast, the set, or the “vision”…
Creating a two piece early Edwardian inspired costume from a woman’s suit
If you do an image search for Truly Scrumptious costumes you will most likely see either the ruffled white dress or the puppet costume. You may also see a few partial pictures of some of her other outfit: a pink suit, a peasant-themed outfit in Vulgaria, and this blue ensemble: Initially this outfit is covered…
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