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”…
I am always on the look-out for great sources of fabric for costuming. I found On the Go Linens this Spring and placed a trial order. I have been waiting to share the link until I actually used some of the fabric. Well . . . fast forward several months, and I haven’t made anything (sad…
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 . .…
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…
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…
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.…
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