Costume construction for the Stratford High School production of Beauty & the Beast is in full swing. Sixteen villager skirts have been completed by the team. Now, my job is to make the salt & pepper costumes, napkin rings for the napkin costumes, assorted capes and vests and search for shaggy gray fabric for the wolves' costumes. With a week off from teaching, I am hoping to get a lot done. Wednesday, we are taking the main characters up to an awesome costume warehouse to fit them for their costumes. Thankfully, we are able to rent these costumes at a reasonable price. This allows us to really put our focus on the other characters. Yesterday, we cleaned and organized the costume closet. Susan, Kate, Laura and I had fun sorting through some of the donated clothes and props. There were some really beautiful clothes from the sixties era that looked like something Jackie Kennedy could have worn. Lots of stuff that reminded me of "Laugh In" too. I think we had more fun trying on some of the hats and props, than cleaning and organizing.
Today, I spent the day organizing my ideas and testing out some embroidery designs. I have posted some pictures of the evolution of the costume ideas so you can see the process.
First I sketch out my ideas for costumes and run them by the director, choreographer and others involved in the play. For the napkin ring belts on the napkin costumes, I wanted to embellish them with embroidered roses.
First, I searched through my designs to find the perfect rose. Next, I stitched out a test of the design. I used my embroidery editing software to combine the design elements to make my final design. The fun part was stitching it out on the belt fabric. It is a silver "pleather" which I hope will look like a metal napkin ring when I sew piping on the top and bottom.
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