Dress parade

Today was the day which most makers do worry about, Dress Parade. This is where each of our costumes are reviewed and discussed between the designer, director and lecturer. Our actor/actress in there costume and ourselves stand in front of the 'panel' where they check and review the costume and then as a maker we receive notes which need to be applied to the costumes before performance. What we found was that the actors and actresses were just as nervous as we were and found they needed lots of water to combat the heat from the costumes.

I couldn't of asked for more from Diana, Wife of Bath. She was fantastic as when dealing with the underclothes she wasn't fussy and allowed me to do my job correcting parts of the garment. as well as this we had an issue with the modesty scarf and I had to tack the scarf onto the garment whilst she was wearing it as the original tacks were placed incorrectly.

I only received a few notes from the dress parade which were:

• Turn around belt so the lacing is at the front. 
• Give the costume a more worn look. 
• The bloomers appear french, cover lace. 
• Bigger purse.
• Deal with the puckering issue around the hem of the tunic
• Add fur to the cuffs of the velvet sleeve.

The bloomers are sourced so I am unable to do any alterations to these, so Katie has stated she shall try and either source another pair or find a way of tucking the lace up inside the elastic. The belt thankfully doesn't need to be altered though by twisting it around we do loose the belt loop. Lauren is happy with this though and has said we may attack the purse through an eyelet like they would have during the time period. 

Front

Back

A bit of planning:

A new purse will have to be made during this evening so that it shall not cut into the small amount of studio time that is left tomorrow. Adding the fur to the cuffs has been scheduled for tomorrow morning between 8am and 10.30am as Mandy (the classes lecturer) has agreed to help me with the puckering issue which is happening around the tunics hem after 10.30am. At 1.30 we have to dress the cast for a dress run through however we shall receive the costumes back at 11pm so we can continue the additions.  The morning of the 7th shall consist of adding the modesty fabric to the top of the tunic as well as button hole stitching the eyelets.