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am i tripping or does this (really bad) screenshot confirm honey boleyn and leonor aragon in principle costumes?? you can see two aragon skirts under the boleyn one and the howie one and there’s also two bobo leotards 👀👀 am i reaching 😭😭

Thats not a bad screenshot. Like at all. We have figured out stuff from tiny 100x100 px with terrible resolution screenshots before. This is a luxury.

I think everyone in principal costumes for second covers and Leonor Aragon were confirmed the second Odelia debuted Cleves. Wouldn't make a lot of sense to have one alt in principal costume and the others in alt costumes even less because they have way more principal costumes to choose from so easier to find good fits. And there has been a second Aragon in the rack for a while. It was obviously not Honey's but it hangs right between Leonor's and Odelia's costumes so it could be for either of them.

And yes double Aragon skirt, with one sharing bucket with Boleyn. Which should be Honey's.

The thing that put Honey's second cover into question was that right after cast change there was a Cleves in the middle of Odelia's costumes and a second Parr top in the rack. The Cleves could have been Honey's missplaced in the middle of the chaos that is cast change, but at that point all the previous cast costumes should have been out of the dressing rooms. So there was a chance that Cleves and Parr were meant as second covers and were left there to not get them mixed with everything going into storage. Shortly after Honey's spot on the rack got her full Cleves set.

And then we started seeing the second cover stuff reapear the Cleves showed up sometimes, an Aragon appeared and we never saw the Parr again. And if we assume that was always Odelia's Cleves it was a safe assumption that the Parr was Honey's.

But. Two Boleyn leotards between Honey's costumes, a top at the end of her section of the rack and a skirt sharing bucket with her Aragon. An Aragon skirt under Leonor's Howard and a second top after her costumes (where they have lived for a while). And then a long sleeved leotard (thats only used for Cleves) too dark to be Leonor's right between her and Odelia's sections. That says second cover costumes and thats the best confirmation we can get aside from a debut.

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This.

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the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

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The covers of Operation Mincemeat on Broadway

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Hello, I saw in one post that someone was saying that you made a Katherine Howard Cosplay and I just wanted to ask if you have some sawing patterns on that cosplay for sail.

Hi!

Well I technically made 5/6 principal costumes in their original designs, then did updated P and I'm halfway through updating the other 5. But yes I made a Howard costume.

I do not sell my cosplay patterns, those are tailored to my body and as such they wouldn't really work for someone else (also they are kinda personal).

Six has such specific shapes that you can't really get away from making the pattern if you want it to look right. And Howard in particular is the hardest to adapt from existing patterns. You could use a bustier pattern to start, just make sure that the sides go all the way up and it is not an underbust corset with cups, so you can connect it to the shoulderstrap. Or use the plastic wrap and tape method to create a pattern. If you get stuck I can answer specific questions, but I can't really explain the whole process in part because it is very complex and in part because I can't explain half the logic jumps my brain does while patterning outside of its experience talking.

What I do have is a spreadsheet programed to calculate the measurements needed to trace the skirt. Thats part of a series I'm planning on six costume things I can explain you how to pattern. Its kinda tricky to understand because I havent written the instructions yet but I can send that one if you are interested. It is not a pattern but it saves you from having to figure out how the skirt pattern works.

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via @swatercolor [insta]

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"I wanted to forget him, and yet it seemed I thought of him always. It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there." - Interview with the Vampire, 1976 Interview with the Vampire (2022) | Season 1 - Season 2

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Tony Winner Jak Malone as Hester Leggatt & Others in the musical Operation Mincemeat

(📸 @callmelasagna)

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Sent a 12 year old on a fake Hero’s Journey last week and holy shit he actually did it

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all-timer daniel molloy questions:

1. did you eat the baby?

2. are you schizophrenic, louis?

3. and then what?

4. fuck, man, are you the zodiac killer?

5. YOU BOTH FUCKED LESTAT?

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Random question: Why do the swalt costume tops take so little inspiration from Seymour and Howard?

Black -Aragon's shoulder pads and neckline -Boleyn and Cleves' flaps -Howard's chest straps

Blue -Constructed like Boleyn -Boleyn/Parr/sort of Cleves' neckline

Orange -Boleyn/Cleves' shoulder pads -B/C/P neckline -The lattice/netting down the middle of Parr's top

Pink -Aragon's neckline, chest piece, and construction

Silver -Parr's sleeves -Aragon's neckline, chest piece, and construction

Pewter -B/C flaps -Boleyn's high neckline/collar -The black strips from Aragon and Parr's tops

(sorry if I missed something/didn't explain very well)

That makes only one (minor) design element taken from Howard and zero elements from Seymour in six different costumes made over the course of six/seven years. Any thoughts on why that might be?

The very short answer is because there are no alt costumes meant for Seymour specifically and the only made for Howard had to be shared with Aragon. And swing costumes in theory are meant to be more neutral.

The very long answer which is why we are here.

You have a slightly incorrect starting point. Because black alt was developed at the same time as the principal costumes. So it was made in a world where six costumes didn't exist. The design language wasn't a thing yet. There are probably things that were considered and disscarded for the other costumes but you can probably say the same for the rest.

The other alt costumes did take elements from the principal and black costumes. To different degrees. The alt costumes were made for two specific covers with the idea of working for both. Then when they switched to swing costumes it became about creating a costume that worked for all six which had been the case for black but at this point the rules of what can and cannot be done for a six costume to work rules were set so a lot of things call back to the principal costumes.

But also when redesigns started the alt costumes had some things before the principals which creates a sort of feedback loop. Orange had a peplum with pants before anyone including Parr, pink got a peplum before Aragon, all the alt long sleeves come from black, the chevrons on the Cleves shorts come from the bands on the teal shorts which in turn come from the bands on the Cleves jacket, the Howard skirt was tested on the cruises first, etc. The what came from where is really interesting and now I am adding it to the future posts list.

Specifically for Seymour and Howard. Pink was designed for A/H, it got the A shape and the H color (and then gave A the peplum and H the cutouts). The original bands on the black collar could come from H or could have been created at the same time, but the version Rachel got are definitely H. The silver skirt shape comes from H: narrower and with a wider gap, the pewter skirt took the construction and alternating clear and opaque panels.

But yes Seymour has basically nothing. The silver and pewter vinyls were chosen to blend in or at least not clash with the character lighting designs, not to reflect Seymour. You can kinda count the sequin panels over the collar for silver, but those feel more like Grace's first black costume than Seymour. And yes everyone is aware Seymour is the odd costume out, but I also think it has a lot to do with how no costumes being made as alt Seymour.

If you cut variations Boleyn and Cleves have almost nothing reflected in the alt costumes either, Boleyn has the pewter top now but aside from that it has the teal collar and boots and the orange sleeves. Cleves has the teal top bands and the orange sleeves. We lost most of what called back to both (in a main variation) with the teal redesign.

I often joke with @six-costume-refs that half the sixsona designs got a corset. And that is because we did basically all the cover combinations that could get a corset. We ended up with five corset tops out of nine cover combinations, the rest are A or B and just like pink we ended up with tops closer to those. Which has a lot to do with those not having a corset vibe.

It is basically part Seymour being really different to the rest of the costumes, part Howard being more sneaky in what it gave to the alt costumes, part there never being a Seymour alt costume and part the Aragon style top (which is actually a tudor era bodice) looking more neutral and being a little more versatile.

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@six-musical-refs just found out there is a cats proshot

And I have many questions

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If the US Tour switches to a non-equity tour does that potentially mean the return of Alt Costumes and filmed megasix's to the US?

(Imagine we get the Pewter Alt costume in the US before the West End 😭)

Maybe to megasix recording, definitely no to alt costumes.

As I understand it the no filming rule is a sort of grey area where Six chose (as many other shows with encore songs) chose to err on the side of caution by having one last bow after the megasix. Which means the show isn't finished finished until then, which in turn means filming is not allowed. Things after the final bow, such as speeches can be filmed and in general you won't even get the ushers complaining about that. And the show itself can film before the final bow and release it for promotional reasons, which is how we usually get the official broadway account posting new cast megasix content. Same rules apply to tours but also some venues can have a policy of no photograph or video inside the auditorium or that you can't shoot anything that shows the stage even if it is before or after the show.

If (when) Six switches to a non equity tour they could go back to the Chicago policy of basically saying we know this is still part of the show but aknowledge and allow filming within certain limitations which could mean just phones and no professional cameras. But they still would need to follow venue rules. So my guess is production would need to make the choice to allow filming and it might not be possible for all tour stops.

Alt costumes are saddly not happening as fun as that would be. It would still be the US cover system, so four alts with three covers each and principal costumes for those. So no alt costumes, and non-equity tours generally have a lower budget and heavily prioritize using things that already exist before making anything new. If the theory of non-eq for late 2026 ends up being right by then they will have a few years worth of costumes in stock if you count Broadway, both tours, all cruises after Bliss 3 (and maybe even some earlier cruise costumes), and Canada. Some cruise costumes have gone to the UK with their actors but JKNY is now making some of the UK costumes too so the UK stock might be accessed for non-eq. So in theory there would be no need for new costumes. We might see a lot of wigs come out of storage too. I think that they will prioritize making boots over everything else for the sake of lowering the risk of injury but they might go back to flat boots being made only as necessary from store bougth booots and alts not having Cleves boots.