My Current Project: The Pink Floofy 1840s Dress of Doom
One of my injokes in the Royal Exchange about this dress is 'Barbie Dickens' - or what the Mean Girl teenagers of the 1840s were wearing back then. Can't you just see Fanny from North and South in it? Or Blanche Ingram from Jane Eyre? This dress just screams 'evil blonde!' It also slightly looks like every pretty princess dress I drew under the age of ten. It's also made for a Twiglet - the actress' costumes are often seriously undernourished!
I am currently razzmatazzing this dress up with acres and acres of pink rose trim - only the bodice came from a previous production, and the skirt was made up by someone way more talented than I am! You can see the mend rail in the background where we put wrecks of items that need some serious costume resuscitation.
Costume Racks of Droolsomeness
In other words, the never-ending dress up box of period win. What you can see down the aisle is the amount of party frocks, period gown, wench outfits and medieval cloaks - like a Time Lord's wardrobe, except with more repairs. There's dressing gowns at the other end, as well as some decidedly Blackadder- style medieval menswear. On your right at the front of the picture is the start of the Edwardian section - that floating piece of blue tulle? None other than a Titanic deck dress rip off!
There They Blow! T'is The White Crinoline!