The design was based on comic book style with dyed hair, wide eyed makeup and curvaceous body types.

Footwear, headgear, accessories were all two-dimensional.

The “tie” phalli break the two-dimensional surface.

Boys will be boys…fooling around backstage with their “ties”.

The design was paper dolls. The build was out of reinforced pellon on an elastic harness over top a full body suit. The clothing was air sprayed on.

The front placket opened up to break the two-dimension. :)

Time was running out for air brushing so the costume shop manager bought dozens of Sharpies and we spread out costumes along the hallways and put everyone to work outlining. Quite the party!

The show was like watching Saturday morning cartoons gone crazy!

Every actor in the chorus played many roles with simple changes taking place on and off stage, using accessories to define different characters.

The female chorus members were dressed in a basic calico housedress in muted colours.

The male chorus members were dressed in overdyed denim coveralls and work shirts.

The actress learned to crochet so she could create the blanket on stage.

Some actors became animals on stage. This is rather silly bird.

The actor on the right is the leading lady and so was dressed differently - in a Dior New Look inspired garment.

These two are main characters and so dressed individually.

Stylized masks were designed and constructed for various scenes.

An outdoor scene.

Some of the actors played up to a dozen roles each.

This actress was portraying a young girl.

Contemporary interpretation. Small budget but lots of costume changes to denote upper class. Fun challenge. We did a combination of shopping, pulling from stock, and construction.

The party scene also employed masks for the characters.

University of Lethbridge Music production. Constructed costumes and supervised student construction. Fun and colourful show!

Stomach padding

Female chorus

Double cast role. This actress was shorter than the other. Skirt made to fit her length. Hand painted flowers on fabric.

Double cast role. This actress was several inches taller than the previous actress so added extra ruffle to an underskirt. Hand painted flowers on fabric.

Another double cast role. Actresses similar sizes so worked well. Fun cape.

Male Chorus of sailors.

We did a combination of pulling from stock and building.

Fun to create Northern Renaissance style costume.

Reconstructing stock items.

Constructed leather jerkin and breeches.

Ballet Dance Costumes constructed.

Wide range of periods involved in the show. Many costumes were pulled from stock and adjusted, some created new.

This was a crazy, fun, and confusing show to create. We shopped at my dad’s farm, hardware stores, and tire stores to create these amazing costumes.

Each soldiers outfit started with some sort of long body suit or long johns and then we added odd items and tied them on with inner tubes. They were crazy fun to build.

The outfits were all in pieces and so difficult to hang - we gave each actor a box with his “stuff” in it and between us mostly remembered how each costume was put together. There were often variations throughout the run.

The King’s outfit was constructed of leather and fabric. His crown was hardware.

The Queen had a vest of arborite samples and a head covering of bottle tops chain mell.

The witches’ costumes were highly distressed and very flexible as the actors climbed and hung about on the chain link fence.

The Queen and other ladies dresses were raw silk dyed subtle colours.

We had a short time frame and many beautiful Restoration costumes to build. I happened to rip my rotator cuff at the beginning of the build but managed to get through it all with my arm in a sling!

We got to work with exquisite silks for these gorgeous gowns.

The lovely Restoration Cutaway was out of Italian velvet that shredded when cutting and we had limited fabric. But so beautiful when finished.

A beautiful show and so fun to build.

I got to distress costumes to my heart’s content.

Costumes were of natural materials which distress beautifully.

As each beautifully tailored coat was finished, I took it away to distress. We wanted to be able to use the coats again so the distressing for these had to be removable.

Just for fun. Foam sculpted head with breathing and eye holes.

Dress was twisted and tucked to resemble tree roots as it trailed behind the model. The cape was wired at the neck and was covered with trailing leaves.