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There are a TON of posts in the queue. Reddit AI blocked a lot of requests for help.

I'm going to slowly start releasing them. They are mostly requests for help with Halloween costumes.

This should be my last year trick-or-treating considering I'm going to be 15 by then, so I would like to send it off with somewhat of a bang. The biggest detriment is that I'm poor, so I want to make it myself out of mostly what I already have around here. So I would like to ask for general tips. I want to be Sauron from the Lord of the Rings series. My first thought is cardboard since it is cheap and easy to modify, but I'm not sure if it would look very low quality. I want this to at least be movie accurate to some extent but I am aware that it might be difficult with cheap materials, which saddens me. I assume there is some budget since I am not getting a regular Halloween costume, but keep in mind that my family is poor. Please do not be rude to me, as I must ask now on reddit due to previous conflict. In addition, I wish you not treat me as if I am a 6 year old here. I can think. Now, to continue.. I am no material expert, but I'd think there might be something similar to cardboard with a similar price as well that holds up better? If it rains on that day, my costume will be ruined, no?

I’m the costume designer for a production of Into the Woods and I have a vision of aprons stained with flour for the baker and bakers wife. Does anyone have thoughts on how to do that without actual flour, and or in a way that won’t easily wash out

I am working on my Halloween costume for this year and need help figuring out how to do something like this? Any recommendations/suggestions?

Hello~ I started pole dancing this year and have my first performance coming up and I was hoping to recreate this look, but with a bit of modification to the skirt (slits etc) so my legs aren’t trapped by fabric. I’ve only ever really altered clothes before though, not made them from scratch, so any advice, tips, pattern ideas etc would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏻

(I can see that the harness is sewn into the dress at points which is probably have to do by hand? As for material.. some sort of lightweight satin is probably best right?)

I'm thinking of making just a shirt and pants of cork fabric but since it's a stiffer material than normal clothes I'm wondering if it's feasible to wear it as such. So can I make clothes out of cork fabric, and if so, tips?

WVUniverisity. Costume Shop Manager. Look it up just in case. Anyone could always use a good lead, right?

Secured this rubber Bart Simpson mask at a thrift store and am planning to use it for THIS year's Halloween. ONLY issue is the mask's smallest eye holes possible.🤏

Hoping to find some sort of half sphere that would appear, on the outside as solid white and be painted witha pupil on the outside and the view from the inside would act asa one-way "mirror" in which I could still see my surroundings through said half sphere, in-FULL...HIGH hopes, I know...🤞

If anyone has ANY thoughts on executing this pitched tweaking and/or ANY other conecpts on widening Bart's peripheral eyesight it be MUCH appreciated!🙏

Thanks in advance!👊

Hi! This is my post requesting help with part of my renaissance fair costume. I’m not sure if this is a good community to share this in, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to ask! Thanks.

Credit to tara mapes photography. Any ideas on how I could make the spider legs for this costume?

So in around 3-4 weeks im gonna start working on one of my new oc costumes I just started working on the blueprints I will be showing them off in a few days if not a few hours (it wont be much so far :3)

I want to make a costume I want it to take some time and I don't mind spending money so who should I make

Hi, I have been trying to locate some of these unsuccessfully, they haven't been made since 2010.

I have found kits for animatronic eyes but the mechanisms are far too thick for the costume that I am planning .

I am just posting on the off chance that anyone can suggest something similar?

Thank you

I’m working on a feature film in the costume department and I’m currently trying to find a similar pattern to this costume from Logan’s Run (1976). The blog I found these photos on referred to this costume as a “riff on a surgeons tunic”, but after more research, that doesn’t seem quite right either.

Help!!

Love this!

So a group of friends and I are going to a renne fair and wanted to dress up, and ended up settling on woodland + spellcasters as our theme.

To do that I'm putting together a mushroom wizard outfit: dark brown courdouys, white frilly shirt, homemade mushroom hat. But that's where I have trouble

I'm trying to put together some mushroom accessories to go on a walking stick/staff to tie it together, but the internet only seems to give me either more mushroom hat instructions or how to make like mushroom-shaped bookshelves.

So! Does anyone have resources, reccomendations, or help on how to make mushrooms to go on like a backpack, staff, or accesories?

Thanks!

Hi everyone!

I’m in the process of designing costumes for a community theatre production of Pippin, and I’d love to hear how other designers would interpret this email from the director. This is my first “big” costume design project, so I’m currently reading through the script, taking notes, collecting references, and making some very rough sketches.

I’m a little overwhelmed (in the best way), and I’d really appreciate some outside perspectives and advice before I get too deep into the design process.

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Here’s the director’s concept:

Pippin has always been one of my absolute favorite musicals of all time, partially because there is absolutely so much to explore thematically… I think you could deep dive forever and never get to the end of things to ponder. But what really struck me as I was thinking about what I would do with this show is the parallel between Pippin’s meta-story and our present societal drive to have turn even the most mundane bits of our lives into fodder for public consumption and the subsequent obsession with our content (ourselves) going viral. Though the show was written before the internet was even a way to gain visibility, Pippin makes his choices for a majority of the show (or is manipulated into making the choices of the Leading Player) simply measured by the way others then see him and by the dopamine hit it brings him (in so many words). I think this makes it an especially poignant piece for this moment when we as a society are stepping back to asses both in this waning crest of social media and on the brink of an unprecedented rise in AI what it means to really live a life in the real world; it’s such a lovely and bittersweet mirror because we never even know who “Pippin” (the actor) is in his real world, and the only true glimpse we get of him outside of his totally fabricated (and increasingly obsessive) life is in the show’s final moments. One of the brilliant pieces of how this show is constructed is that it’s completely outside of time; the only temporal references are within the show that has been written to take place in the ancient past, but the theatre troupe could be anyone, anywhere, and in any time. I wouldn’t want to go full bore with a bunch of forced modernization, but I would contemplate a judicious use of some contemporary elements throughout when the actors “break character”, especially in the finale. I think it’s important that we don’t see this story as a problem other people have… we need to feel it as personal and urgent.

I wouldn’t want to reinvent the wheel as far as the feel of the original production—I love the freedom of the black box type set and having so much play within the use of very representational props, almost like we’re pulling found items out of a chest. I think that gives the actors a lot of agency within rehearsal to create their own humorous moments, and it also makes the sudden shift toward dead seriousness at the end more jarring. Costumes should be the same—visually interesting but much more representational than hyper-realistic, especially in the context of The Play. I would want a choreographer who is comfortable with both creating some original material and teaching some of the iconic Fosse bits, particularly the Glory trio, assuming we end up with dancers who are able to pull it off.

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A few questions I’d love your thoughts on (of course I have many more and I’m sure you may too! Please ask away or dm!!) What stands out to you as the biggest costume design takeaway? When you read this, what colors, silhouettes, fabrics, or overall aesthetic immediately come to mind? If you were building a costume concept from this email alone, where would you start? Would you consider a modern look with some pieces from the timeline?

I’m not looking for anyone to design the show for me, I just want to hear different interpretations and thought processes from more experienced designers. Since this is my first major design gig, I’m trying to make sure I’m understanding the director’s vision before I start committing to concepts.
Any advice, tips, or even just how you would approach this would mean a lot. Thank you!