Costumes

Byyyyyy Trish West.

Well. I guess I already understood that costumes play a large part in creating not only the setting but also helping to create a well-rounded character. It was interesting to hear an insiders view of how costumes are put together. I always figured that each school or company had their own costumes, and if they didn't have them that they just made them. What I didn't realize was that a company could order or borrow costumes from distributors. For instance professor West said that she had to borrow Nazi costumes from someone during a time when they were hard to be found. I guess I should have figured that was possible, but regardless it was interesting to learn.

Of course when thinking about a costume you always need to consider costume limitations. For dance we would always have a theme (soldiers, beach...whatever) and we had costumes made to fit the theme. At the same time we were dancers and we needed freedom of movement. So I understand that there are restrictions of costume for actors.

Money rules the world.
With all the money in the world, you can get or have someone make any costume you want. However most people do not have all the money in the world, and have to make do with the present economic availability. This makes sense, and is true for almost anything.

Thrift stores are amazing.

I love clothes. You can say a lot about yourself by the way you dress.

ps. I loved the crazy pictures in the book.