tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59425156235255655372024-03-13T04:40:21.035-07:00The Wardrobe Mistresslife inside a working theatre wardrobe departmentThe Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-22682421338008894302014-06-28T15:02:00.000-07:002014-06-28T15:02:57.370-07:00Anne Boleyn Part 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Another show over and done and what a big one! My heartfelt and huge thanks go to the following people - </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See you soon for the next one..........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so we approach production week. All fittings with the actors are now complete. The wardrobe has been a hub of tea fueled, fevered activity and we are down to one side of A4 of to do's. I'm sure this will all change on Monday at the first dress rehearsal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Anne Boleyn dress is now finished. Sean from Reflective Arts came in and took some pictures of the fitting sessions with Rebecca.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is Warren Ray Lynch who is playing Henry. I'd made this splendid gold outfit a few years ago for the Henry VIII in 'A Man For All Seasons' about 5 years ago and it only got about 5 minutes of fame on stage. As luck would have it, it fitted Warren a treat so after a bit of work here and there, it will be Henry's costume for the Masque scene where he meets Anne</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is another Henrican gown I found in our collection. It's from the costumier's 'Nathans' and dates back to at least the 1950s. 'Nathans' later became the world famous costume company 'Angels'. It really is a substantial piece of work. It's incredibly heavy. I was hoping that this would be Henry's entrance costume but after 2 dress rehearsals it's looking less likely that it will be used as the change is too quick (too heavy to use Velcro!) and too hot!! Quite sad about this as I think you will agree that it does look very impressive. This kind of thing happens a lot at dress rehearsal. You really don't know what will be practical until it's on an actor on stage. This has also happened to the beautiful English hoods made by Eileen. They covered the ears completely and the actors just couldn't hear properly so they had to be cut. They will definitely be going on display though. You can't have too much ego as a designer!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is King James (Christopher Neale) who came to the English throne in 1603, just over 60 years after Anne was beheaded. The challenge here was to show the time difference. Fashion hadn't changed that much but there were subtle differences.Ruffs had been and gone (almost). Breeches now reached to the knee and there was a lot of lace, everywhere.</span></div>
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<br />The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-68600633641795205132014-05-16T14:57:00.001-07:002014-05-16T15:01:10.956-07:00Anne Boleyn<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello! I'm back again with what looks like being a bit of an epic journey. The Maddermarket Theatre's June production is Howard Brenton's 'Anne Boleyn' and it will be one of the biggest shows we have staged (from a costume perspective) for a very long time. We have a cast of 24 and it spans several years so that is a lot of costumes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I will be making quite a bit for this show. A lot of our 'Tudorbethan' costumes are quite generic and at least 40 years old.They are also very small! The style at Henry's court was quite specific. It was the link between the late medieval and the Elizabethan. Anne, in particular, was an advocate of fashion and the French style and I wanted this to be reflected in the play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As usual. I have created a Pinterest board for research and inspiration. You can follow it here -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Below is a shot from the initial programme photo session (taken on my iphone!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This dress is one from our wardrobe that we are refurbishing for the show. Anne is wearing a French hood which she made fashionable. All of the hoods in this production have been made by one of my incredible volunteers, Eileen Collisson, following the patterns in The Tudor Tailor.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Tudor-Tailor-Reconstructing-Sixteenth-Century/dp/0713489855"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Tudor-Tailor-Reconstructing-Sixteenth-Century/dp/0713489855</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They also have a very good website for all things Tudor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the first things I do in preparation for a show is to make a costume plot. I read the play whilst make notes on a graph detailing what costumes are needed by each actor in every scene. They can often be fitted easily on an A4 sheet of paper. This one runs to two A3 sheets!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most importantly, have a fitting with Rebecca to make sure it fits!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And that's just one costume!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One thing to note is that although I'm following the patterns in the Tudor Tailor, I am adapting them for stage use. The gown above is traditionally made in separate parts.A chemise, a kirtle, a pair of bodies and the gown. This isn't practical for the theatre so I cheat a little to make it all into one garment that fastens at the back, instead of fastening at the front underneath a placket that is then pinned into place. Far too complicated in a show where some of the changes will be done on stage by the actors.</span></div>
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The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-41851469023039495722014-02-24T09:22:00.002-08:002014-02-24T09:22:50.212-08:00Absolutely the last donation for a while!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One final donation from a particularly bountiful fortnight. I was out when this arrived but luckily Dawn excepted it on my behalf.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is a beautiful blouse circa 1890 in almost perfect condition.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Trimmed with black sequin and seed bead encrusted lace</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Small hidden pocket sewn to the cotton lining. This used to contain a scented handkerchief or posy. You can also just see some of the internal boning.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YBGe0SxVFfA/UweM2PW_gdI/AAAAAAAABAU/Ti86Z33KDO0/s1600/photo+(11).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YBGe0SxVFfA/UweM2PW_gdI/AAAAAAAABAU/Ti86Z33KDO0/s1600/photo+(11).JPG" height="640" width="478" /></span></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At first we weren't sure why the waistband was a lot bigger than the rest of the blouse but we think it could possible have been a maternity garment.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are no labels inside but that is not uncommon for this era so it is hard to tell if this was a home made garment or a shop bought one. It is small, probably equivalent to a modern size 6.</span><span id="goog_806836223"></span><span id="goog_806836224"></span><br />The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-60855660857685807072014-02-17T09:48:00.000-08:002014-02-17T09:48:47.868-08:00...and one more donation<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The final donation in a week of donations was this rather lovely little (it is very small) Tudor style dress. It was given by a lovely lady from Cambridge and it belonged to her late mother.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her mother acted here at the Maddermarket in the mid 1940s but we worked out that the dress was probably made for her around 1938/9. The dress was for the character of Mary Queen of Scots but we're not sure if it was for a MMT production. I will be hitting the archives soon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's always great receiving donations but when they have provenance too, it's even better. Not sure if we'll be able to use it for our June production of Anne Boleyn. As I said, it is very tiny and it only just fits my smallest dummy, but I will use it for the production display.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The black is cotton velvet and the white is rayon</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The skirt is covered with silver sequins and the braid is beaded silver</span></td></tr>
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<br />The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-17399538942717805602014-02-13T04:23:00.000-08:002014-02-13T04:23:40.592-08:00Pretty Things<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hello lovelies,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Still fairly quiet in the wardrobe which is good. I'm getting a head start on our big Shakespearean offering in March. We are doing 'As You Like It' with a bit of a hippy/flower power vibe! Watch this space for some groovy gear........</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the meantime here are a few piccys from a donation I received this morning from a lady in Cambridge. They all belonged to her mother.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lovely little silk blouse that could easily do 20s and 30s shows</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Very pretty fine wool dress that may well find it's way into As You Like It</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As may these sandals</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hand embroidered mittens and belt. Wish I'd had these for The Snow Queen</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Beautiful lace and cotton camisole. 1920s I think<br /><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have some more donations arriving tomorrow. Stay tuned costumeophiles........</span><br />The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-73395177059424826022014-02-10T07:12:00.000-08:002014-02-10T07:12:09.876-08:00Random Musings<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Things are fairly quiet here in the wardrobe at the moment. We have had a couple of small, modern plays on the trot so I'm doing a bit of house keeping. Sorting out the undies today and discovered these two that made me laugh........</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A 46E and a 32AA to be precise!</span>The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-69755477419982504032014-01-27T09:30:00.000-08:002014-01-27T09:30:55.545-08:00Snow Queen Photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">....and there it was gone! In a puff of glitter.Quite literally!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This stuff gets every where. Still finding it in odd places nearly a month later.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It took 6 months of thinking and planning, 6 weeks of construction, making and fitting and about a week to dismantle and put away. It was so all encompassing that I didn't have any time to update on the way so here are some piccys of some of the work in progress, fittings and performances. Enjoy........</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Snow Queen's wig and head dress</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The headdress was quite heavy so we ended up sewing it to the wig. The wig itself needed constant attention. Daily spraying, backcombing and glittering.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This beautiful pocket was probably the starting point of the design concept. I had a book of Swedish folk costume and loved the vibrant reds and colourful embroidery on black. The pocket is key in the story of Gerda as it is where she puts the icy shard plucked from Kai's heart. This pocket was made by a very talented lady called Eileen who volunteers for me in the wardrobe department.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A few pictures of Gerda's (Moira Hickson) fitting</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Practicing hairstyles. You can also see pinning down the back of the bodice ready to be taken in.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We used fullers earth to create a thick layer of dust on Cobweb's coat. We also covered him in cobwebs (obviously!)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Most members of the cast had multiple roles. Luke had to go from Polar bear to Prince to robber to Ice Ghost. This meant under and over dressing and having to make a few compromises with some of the costumes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Both the Robber Queen and Grandma were wearing ALL of the clothes!!</span><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some of my fantastic wardrobe ladies enjoying a well deserved festive treat</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The following are production photographs (dress rehearsal in fact) taken by the lovely Sean Owen of Reflective Arts. Please do not reproduce without permission. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kai (Daniel Robertson) & Gerda (Moira Hickson)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">..and Etta Geras as Grandma</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Making an entrance</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gerda meets the Ice Ghosts</span></td></tr>
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<br /><br />The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-8870485578493021462013-11-25T07:22:00.000-08:002013-11-25T07:22:04.981-08:00It Has Begun<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's starting to get really sparkly in here. Had first fitting with the Snow Queen herself on Friday. Now have to prepare her costume and Kay's and Gerda's for promotional photos next Tuesday. It feels good to be actually making a start. There is only so much research you can do! I do have an awful lot of things to make but with my team of wonderful volunteers, that shouldn't be too much of a problem. I think I still need more glitter though. You can never have enough glitter!</span><br />
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<br />The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-4521776884774727562013-11-08T06:12:00.000-08:002013-11-08T06:14:09.545-08:00A snowy dress fit for a queen<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Tentative steps.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This is the costume I've wanted to make all my professional life and now I get to make it and I don't know where to begin! I do have some guidelines to help. I can't be completely white as it would get lost in the set so I'm thinking a base under dress of white satin with an overlay of silver mesh. Also, thinking of a cloak of ice blue velvet with grey fur trimming and white satin lining. The actress has mentioned that she doesn't fancy anything too figure hugging and I really like the idea of textures and layers and trying to avoid the evil queen stereotypes. So I'm making samples and sketching for the first time in years</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No better place to start than with the Snow Queen herself and so my next post will cover the first steps in realising her costume.....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tuesday was the day of the great breaking down session.It is by no means an exact science but there are a few techniques that really work and a few points to bear in mind.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Firstly, what kind of stains are you trying to recreate? Sweat, grease, mud, blood etc. How did these stains occur and where on the garment would they be? Is there any other distress on the garment and how did that happen? Torn sleeves, ripped trousers and so on. Once you have established this then you are more likely to produce a convincing effect rather than a garment that looks like it has been attacked by a crazy person (unless that is what you are going for of course!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The various techniques we use usually begin with dyeing or bleaching to dull down the original colour of the garment. We needed to do this for Now Is the Hour to show the effects of sun bleaching and exposure to the uniforms. I mixed up a vat of beige fabric dye and added salt and coffee. I saved a spray bottle full of a more concentrated version to spray on later</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After drying off in the tumble dryer with a pair of trainers, we needed to create the physical distress on the clothes. This is where the cheese graters, sandpaper and brute force comes into play.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It's amazing how much joy can be had from breaking down something you have just made! Amy had made a beautiful job of the purple evening dress and an equally good job of destroying it! It does feel rather contrary as a maker and designer to begin with, but as you can see, the ladies really got into it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After the wear and tear has been added then you apply the final flourishes. Vaseline is very good for grease on dark fabrics. Fullers earth is also good on darker fabrics for general dirt and stains. A solution of potassium permanganate crystals sprayed onto shirts makes very convincing sweat stains and red food colouring mixed up with coffee granules makes very good blood stains. You can also buy 'clean dirt' products from theatrical suppliers. They come in many colours to replicate the many sorts of stains needed. My particular favourite is a product called 'Pure Filth' which you can see in the photo for 'The Materials are assembled'.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To set the stains, Martin trampled them into the garments and then we gave them a quick go in the tumble dryer. And that's it!! Quite a lot more to it than you would imagine but good fun to do.</span><br />
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The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-45434052843664006882013-09-13T09:26:00.001-07:002013-09-13T09:27:51.713-07:00The Materials Are Assembled<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All ready to go for the mammoth breaking down session on Monday. The 'distressing kit' consists of pumice stones, scourers and scrubbing brushes. Maybe even the odd cheese grater! Potassium permanganate crystals, fullers earth, petroleum jelly and a stick of 'Pure Filth'!</span><br />
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The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-34239988247034977682013-09-05T09:24:00.000-07:002013-09-05T09:24:38.191-07:00Two of everything!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It occurred to me the other day whilst doing my costume plot that I was going to need two identical 1940s evening dresses for the character of Katriona. One to wear at dinner just before the ship gets torpedoed and one that she wears in the life boat that will get broken down. Now, I know we have a lot of 1940s frocks at the Maddermarket but I'm pretty sure that we don't have two identical ones and if we did, I don't think I'd feel happy about setting about one of them with a cheese grater and chemicals. Nothing for it but to rustle up a couple of evening dresses then. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How about this slinky little number from 1940?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I decided on an aubergine liquid satin as it is a bias cut dress and this is the closest to an authentic period fabric I could find locally. I really wanted an emerald green but the shade in the shop looked too modern. It needs to be a colour that will stand out on stage as all of the other costumes are a uniform drab. It also needs to be fairly quick and easy to put together as I have two to make on top of everything else I have to do. The dress only has six pieces but it's bias cut and took me two hours just to cut out! Hopefully won't take too much longer to put together. Watch this space..........</span></div>
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The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-53168557502768298412013-08-30T09:41:00.000-07:002013-08-30T09:41:23.501-07:00Breaking Down!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not me, thankfully but the costumes for the next play!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As you can see, it's a rather subdued palette. That's because most of the action of our next production, 'Now Is The Hour' by David Hall, takes place on a lifeboat in the middle of the sea after a torpedo attack on the ship 'Laconia' in 1942.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My challenge for this show is to age and 'break down' the costumes to show the wear and tear they would receive, cast adrift in the middle of the sea for 28 days. With no one leaving the stage to change! The actors will also have to show the affects of exposure, sunburn and dehydration. Again without leaving the stage. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The costume plot is a way of recording all the relevant information I need about who is wearing what and when. It also shows how much time has passed in the play and how much actual time has passed which is important for costume changes as, in this play, there are about 6 actors playing multiple parts.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The action goes from Act 1 where everyone is at dinner on board the Laconia into Act 2 where some of the characters are on board the lifeboat. This means that what ever they are wearing as the ship goes down at dinner is what they will be wearing for the rest of the play adrift in the lifeboat.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">More of this over the next few weeks. Layering, under dressing, break aways, Vaseline, potassium permanganate, fullers earth. All will be revealed!</span></div>
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The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-45020299680516749322013-06-03T09:20:00.002-07:002013-06-03T09:20:23.833-07:00Treasures In The Attic<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As I'm taking the June production off, I have time to do all those things in the wardrobe that I never get to do whilst working on a show.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Today's job was to begin sorting what I 'affectionately' call 'The Charity Shop Attic'. It's basically where all the modern stuff gets stored along with the hats and some of the skirt overflow. It always makes me a bit cross because I can never find what I'm looking for. Any order that once existed has gone right out of the window and I never normally have the time to address it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's looking a lot tidier since Suzanne has organised the hats. You should have seen it before! But now, all the skirts are nice and tidy too and subdivided into - Historic plain, peasant, Shakespearean, 18th C, Victorian. Modern formal, leather, maxi, mini and shorts, tweedy and wool, floral, hippy etc.... OCD? Me? Never!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Considering their age and the conditions they have been kept in, they are in remarkably good condition although the fabric is very fragile. I won't be able to use them on stage but they are a valuable resource for research. The level of detail is incredible as is the workmanship (probably workwomanship).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When we first meet Nell she is a grubby little barmaid and is wearing an unadorned muslin chemise and a calico corset (this was actually the trial corset we made for fittings and to work out the pattern, but waste not want not!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> By the second act, she has found favour with the King and is sporting altogether more beautiful garments like this brocade corset and lace adorned chemise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As you can see, the corsets are pretty low cut. In fact, it was quite the fashion for ladies to expose a great deal of bosom. But for the sake of modesty, I didn't insist on this for our actors!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As I mentioned earlier, we do have rather a lot of costume at the Maddermarket so quite often I can reuse items. It's always fun to completely renovate a garment. Bring it back to life. We also are lucky in that we have an abundance of vintage haberdashery which makes such a difference to the look of a costume. Modern materials just don't cut it. Too much polyester and the colours are too harsh.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />This is Mrs Marshall's final dress in which she collects the theatre shares for herself and Nell. It is a shot purple/black silk with a pink satin stomacher and has a separate white underskirt. Whilst rummaging around for some black lace for the waterfall sleeve trimming, I came across a bag full of this purple taffeta crimped trimming. It was the perfect match so it went around the sleeves and the bodice. I made some little bows of graduating size from some lovely worn black and white grosgrain ribbon and finished the edges off with some narrow black ladder lace (very useful stuff. I've used loads of it over the years but have nearly run out now!).</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, the show went up last night and was a great success and next week I will post some pictures from the final dress rehearsal. All that is left for me to do now is clear up this chaos!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />I would also just like to say a huge thank you to all my volunteers without who this would not be possible. At all! So thank you to Romilly for corset wrangling, Julia for saving the day in the snow, Eileen for being amazing and always there and to Judith, Behira, Clarissa and Sarah. Also a big thanks to Mary for re styling Nell's and Mrs B's wigs and to Bella for doing the hair and make up and not forgetting Chrissie and her army of dressers.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is set in the tiring room (or dressing room) of a theatre where the actresses live their lives between the scenes on stage and the action off stage. It is a pretty costume heavy production but because the action on stage is swift and flowing, I didn't want it to be hampered by lots if unnecessary costume changes. For the most part, the actors will be wearing a basic costume of chemise, corset and petticoat. This is their undress state. Costume changes will be done on stage as part of the action and dresses and symbolic pieces will go over the basic costume.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first thing I do as costume designer, after reading the play, is to do my research. This has become a lot easier of late thanks to Pinterest. I use this to create mood boards and find appropriate images and it creates an on line pin board that I can update and show the director and actors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next job is to go through our enormous costume collection (over 50,000 items - one of the largest collections in the country) and select costumes for each character.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just seen here is Nell's wig pre styling, her pale blue silk shoes and a sea green satin bodice</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now the fun starts. The fittings with the actors. The easiest to costume was the character of Doll Common. Unlike the other characters, she remains constant and unchanged throughout the play and only needs one costume. Doll is like the spirit of the theatre, almost a ghost. Timeless. She is also a grubby old woman who doesn't change her clothes or wash! I wanted her to look like she had fallen into a basket of dirty costumes.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Luckily, we already had quite a stock of 17th century costume but I was very keen to make new corsets and chemises as these would be the main costumes and would really give the authentic look</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sorry it's been an age but I've been rather busy. Several enormous plays and not an awful lot of spare time. I'm also trying a different approach to this blogging malarky. Little and often is where it's at, I think.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway, it's coming up to Christmas and our seasonal production this year is E. Nesbit's 'The Railway Children' adapted for the stage by Mike Kenny.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love working on the Christmas show at the Maddermarket. It always feels so cozy (metaphorically speaking - it's bloody freezing in here). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Have the first fitting today with the actor playing The Old Gentleman. This will be fairly straight forward Edwardian city gent attire and will only require a few small alterations, hopefully.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">People often assume that it's very difficult to costume a period piece and that a modern play is a piece of cake. It's just clothes isn't it? Well, that's why it is so tricky. With a play like our last production, Priestley's 'When We Are Married' it was very straight forward. The date was 1908, the action took place on one day and in Yorkshire and we had some upstanding members of the community and their staff and some lovely 'salt of the earth' characters. We had a lot of turn of the century costume in stock so the only tricky bits were getting clothes to fit and finding the right accessories</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is the odd occasion when the cut price clothing emporium is the costumiers friend. Earlier this year we put on an amazing piece of theatre by Shelagh Stephenson called '5 Kinds of Silence'. It is about domestic violence and the director staged it in a very stylistic way borrowing from Japanese Karuko theatre methods. He also had a very firm idea of how he wanted it to look. Again a limited palate of black, white red and grey. The father in black trousers, white shirt and red tie and at one point, a black overcoat with a red lining. His wife and two daughters were to be dressed identically in grey dresses that represented their repressed situation. The script also called for them to wear identical red coats to be in their fathers 'little army'. As luck would have it, a certain high street store had three military style red duffle coats reduced in their sale along with some grey jersey dresses that fitted the directors specifications exactly.</span><br />
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</div>The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-30174728837756063882012-07-04T02:53:00.000-07:002012-07-08T13:13:58.374-07:00Ancient and Modern<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One of the questions I am most frequently asked about our collection of costumes at the Maddermarket is 'What is the oldest item in your wardrobe?' We are very lucky to have quite a lot of original pieces dating from the Victorian and Edwardian eras but we have nothing wearable from earlier than that any more. Several years ago we had a dress known as The Suffield Dress. It was a sack back gown dating from around 1770. It was incredibly small and fragile and was eventually auctioned off. I can't find any pictures of our dress but it looked abit like this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, we do have a item that dates from about 1760 and it's so small and insignificant looking that you wouldn't give it a second look which is precisely the reason these things are so hard to come by. It is a Dorset Cartwheel button.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you would like to know more about the history of the Dorset button have a look at this link</span> <a href="http://dorset-ancestors.com/?p=694">http://dorset-ancestors.com/?p=694</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After rummaging around in the theatre archives, I came across the Sotheby's auction catalogue from March '97. In it was a photo of the back view of the Suffield dress and a description.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Item 148. A brocaded silk sack backed open robe 'The Suffield Dress' circa 1750, of ivory silk, densely brocaded with silver and gold file and frise metal threads and scattered with large blooms in </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">predominantly purple and pink silks, tripl</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">e engageants with gold lace, has been re-lined, silk is fragile in</span><span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"> places; the stomacher is formed from matching fabric. This gown was donated to the theatre by Dowager Lady Suffield after the 2nd World War. Est £800 - 1,200</span><br />
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</div>The Wardrobe Mistresshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15908377020900368515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942515623525565537.post-27435677507993728652012-03-26T15:11:00.001-07:002012-03-26T15:11:55.801-07:00SPRING CLEANING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We actually got rid of four bin bags full of rather unpleasant coats and a couple of bags full to the charity shop. I now have my ladies 20th century coat rail beautifully arranged by decade and have unearthed some coats that I've never seen before. They all have a bit more room to breathe and I don't dislocate my shoulder every time I need to get a coat down.</span><br />
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