#theatre costuming

[pinball-glizzy]

This costume specifically >>>>

The Prince of Egypt the Musical

[yugiri315]

LWJ Cosplay Log

Finale!

Overall Stats!!

Given my cosplay history, I am no stranger to monochrome.  My characters seem to wear either all black or all white.  To make an outfit like that work you need to layer and think more on your fabric choice.  So different shades of white or blue and different textures were used to make LWJ something interesting to look at other than being a cloud or steamed bun.

Also, most of the bias tape, ribbons, and lapels were made from scratch.  They’re all basically bias tape of varying sizes and functions.

This whole project went from, I’ll just buy the cosplay off Taobao and find someone to do gay shoots with to an intense project that took 2 years to make and, calculating for minimum wage…has a net worth of under $7000!  Holy shit what a scary number, I don’t want to look at it again.  QAQ Even not counting labor, the material cost is as low as it can get but still...whoa ^^;

All that time and money and I have no remotely descent pics to show for it.  These cos-test shots by Dr. Tog will have to do.  Some day, I will have a proper LWJ shoot.  I hope!

References

Patterning:   https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Qb411j7z6?spm_id_from=333.905.b_72656c61746564.1 http://www.yeoh.com/index2.php?section=journal&g=691 https://cosplayqna.tumblr.com/image/38971971992 https://torguqin.wordpress.com/hanfu/hanfu-tutorial-list/

Hanfu Resources: @ziseviolet​:  https://ziseviolet.tumblr.com/about @fouryearsofshades​:  https://fouryearsofshades.tumblr.com/post/179249195707/hello-do-you-happen-to-have-a-master-post-of-all

[cut-off-all-my-fingers]

Costume of a Harlequin (costume of Harlequin, jacket). Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

[toiletpotato]

The 2023 American Girl Doll of the Year is Kavi Sharma, a South Asian American theatre kid who loves Wicked SO SHE HAS A REPLICA ELPHABA COSTUME. I am absolutely ecstatic that kids get this.

edit: SHE ALSO HAS A GLINDA COSTUME

SHE ALSO HAS THIS!! BECAUSE SHE PERFORMS A TRADITIONAL DANCE ROUTINE WITH HER FRIENDS AT SCHOOL AND SHE LOVES BOLLYWOOD

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Léon Comerre (1850-1916) "Pierrot jouant de la mandoline" ("Pierrot playing the mandolin") (1884) Oil on canvas Academicism

[finchers-ipad]

saw fight club in the cinema…i think i died

[clearcatastrophe]

It’s Harkin’ time

((Yes I mean both of them!!))

Now that Dracula Daily and Re:Dracula and over (and I just remembered to post these hhhh) here’s some photos from Halloween!! My friend and I went as Jon and Mina and galavanted around a nearby campus building to take pictures hehe!

It’s been a real one, Dracula Daily. See ya next year!

[kyuhu]

Stop! ✋⛔ Show us the latest artsketch you've been working on! Send this to 5 other artists!

not so much a sketch anymore but the latest thing I was working on :V

[jordanelemus]

ybc musical costume in-depth analysis! 💥🎸🎱

hi! I'm jordan, the costume designer (and also an actor and co-writer) of "the young blood chronicles" musical! i posted this on instagram, but i thought it might be cool to post it here too!

my initial role in “the young blood chronicles” musical was costume design, which, as a fashion enthusiast, i was incredibly excited about. i spent about a month curating a huge pinterest board collection and creating individual moodboards. the show takes place in 2013, but i wanted to take inspiration from both pre and post-hiatus fall out boy looks! here’s an in-depth look :’)

patrick’s main inspo was his “soul punk” era, which lives distinctly in the hiatus. i wanted something that would remind us that years had passed since the last time the band had made music together; something cool and trendy, but a little too dressed up for a long day in the studio. even when not onstage, ybc patrick is performing. clothes can give you power and he knows that. the yellow sunglasses were our way of getting around patrick’s glowing yellow eyes from the music videos, but i really love how it makes it seem like he has a mask on. it makes the end of “miss missing you” even more heartbreaking.

pete’s main inspo came from both his early clandestine drops as well as his more androgynous looks (both pre & post-hiatus). pete really cares about fashion, but he still has a chill la vibe. 2013 pete could often veer more edgy, but i chose to move in a different direction in order to better distinguish pete and patrick’s styles. unless you’re a vixen or patrick, you don’t get a leather jacket! sorry pete! to me, pete’s fashion has always felt so current while still being forward-thinking. ybc pete’s outfit could be from 2006 or 2024 and that was very purposeful!

andy’s looks are mostly pulled from more recent years, but band tees never go out of style. the mesh top under the tee alludes to his tattoos, which make up the extent of his stage looks these days since he typically does shows without a shirt on. celia had this mesh top in her closet and i love the colors on her (it’s the only source of color in the heaven outfits!). andy’s outfit is maybe the simplest of the four on paper, but i think it’s sick. it’s laid back, but super specific and grounded. it makes me want to start wearing basketball shorts.

joe’s looks are pulled from both pre-hiatus and early post-hiatus looks! striped sweaters & cargo pants are things he’s worn before, so i'm lucky i had them in my closet (especially since i wasn’t originally joe!). joe, especially in recent years, really likes wearing dark colors onstage, but, similar to how i avoided leather jackets for pete, i wanted to very clearly differentiate the boys from the vixens. any black piece of clothing on any of the boys had to be broken up with a design or pattern. no all black outfits! sorry joe!

the goal with the heaven outfits was to make the exact same outfits in all white. i wanted the exact same silhouettes as before. i’d say we were pretty successful! we got really lucky when it came to finding these costume pieces.

my vixens! these costumes were a lot more nebulous throughout the process. many of the costume pieces came from the actors’ own wardrobes. it was really important to me that each vixen had her own distinct style. baylee’s vixen (whom she named blair) has a more feminine style, her main costume piece being a lacy leotard. she's sweet with an edge. ava’s vixen is second-in-command & her outfit really screams that. the lingerie top is so killer. alexa’s vixen is almost a mix of baylee’s & ava’s in terms of style. the outfit is sweet, but edgy with the ripped tights & lingerie-style top. lauren’s vixen is a little more utilitarian, actually dressed in a way that makes sense for kidnapping four people. she’s more sporty than the others, but her combat boots are incredibly threatening. hbic is all that and more. her outfit is simple, but powerful. she is terrifying.

tiffany had to feel a bit like an outsider. she’s wearing the vixen clothes, but her jacket has some color on it. it’s a little too big on her. the other vixens really live in & embody their clothes, but for tiffany, it's a bit more like a costume.

here’s how i describe the angels: 1) the hottest girls at the ren faire & 2) like that picture of the angel guiding the two kids that every latine family has in their house. they almost feel out of place; so incredibly fluid in a show that is mostly made up of harsh lines. texture and layers were really the name of the game here, but the angels still have an edge to them. to quote fob: “…angels choking on their halos, get them drunk on rose water. see how dirty i can get them, pullin' out their fragile teeth & clip their tiny wings.”

+ i made pete’s bass machete and tiffany’s/joe’s guitar axe! i don’t have much to say about them, but i loved getting to utilize my cosplay foam skills.

this was my first time ever costuming a show and it was such a dream. the entire cast was so willing to experiment with me and it was such a joy to revisit aspects of 2013 fashion, which i remember from my preteen years, but never got to truly participate in! :’)

- jordan <3

ig: @/jordanelemus

photos: @/cararittner on ig!

[chipthewizard]

So… maybe I decided to make a Starlight Express cosplay 🫣⭐️🚂

[briannabug]

another pic of this patchwork pierrot by @/maxmckerlie_art on instagram

[lonelysa1lor]

The way Ted is so enamored and into Hidgens performance of Working Boys in TGWDLM is so much funnier when you consider the fact that he was once a nerd in highschool/College.

Im pushing the Ted Spankoffski Theatre kid agenda and no one can stop me

[moxyphinx]

"You make me want things I thought would never be mine." "Stay" from LEMPICKA the musical

[prokopetz]

Today's aesthetic: stage musicals where the costumer so heavily padded the male performers' tights to make absolutely sure that the 4K cameras wouldn't pick up even the faintest outline of their junk that it just ends up making everybody's bulge look enormous.

[miasiegert]

I forgot to post pics of the server cat costumes I designed for dinner theatre… THEY ALL FORGOT TO WEAR THEIR CHEF HATS THOUGH!!!!

From Suncoast Broadway Dinner Theatre’s opening night! Bonus of Demeter and Electra selling season tickets!

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

Christian Bérard and Edwige Feuillère at a costume fitting for Jean Cocteau's play L'Aigle à deux têtes, atelier Irène Karinska, Paris, c. October 1946.