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Why do we dress the way we do?
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Haute CoutureRefers to high fashion, one of a kind
designs.
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Royalty determined style
• Dictated and determined fashion
• Sumptuary laws governed what peasants and merchants could wear.
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Where do ideas for dress come from?
• Everywhere• Parties• High fashion• Chance• Anticipation and manipulation• Conformity vs. Nonconformity
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How does fashion (which is the generic word for the
business of clothing) anticipate as well as
manipulate the trends?
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READY TO WEAR = $$= HAS TO SELL
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Theories regarding the Reasons for dressing a particular way
• Shifting of erogenous zones
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Shifting of erogenous zones• Attract the male attention• Female-Revealing• Male-Change the shape of the silhouette
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To assert wealth
• Opulence to make you look richer than others
• Self indulgent dressing to show wealth
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To identify Gender• Sometimes
reversed for effect.
• Message: • Attract• Gain respect• Tell personality• To repel
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How does the fun of playing with clothes affect fashion?
• Fun to play with one’s appearance
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What does the language of clothing say about us?
• Evokes response
• Demands attention
• Comfort
• Convenience
• Utility
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Conspicuous Consumption
• Shows Wealth
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Why is rarity important?
• It sets you apart.
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John Malloy’s Dressed for Success
• Dress for power• Dress for socio-economic message
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How does clothing identify us with certain groups?
• Color = purple
• Wealth rather than birth
• Image makers
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Costumes
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Costuming• Costuming is one of the
integral parts of the play production that suffers the most.
• The costume is not merely a means of characterizing a role as attractively as possible.
• Color and silhouette is a vital part of the total stage design.
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Color• Harmony with
other colors
• Appropriate to historical period
• Can destroy the atmosphere
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Effective Costuming• Expresses the personality of the
character
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Effective Costuming
• Should reveal social status, tastes, idiosyncrasies
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Effective Costuming
• Should aid audience’s understanding of the actor’s relationship to the play itself
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Color Coding
• Matching characters by color or pattern. Example: Romeo and Juliet
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Steps to Costume Design• Study the play
• Budget
• Obtain actors’ measurements
• Collect fabric samples (under lights)
• Costume Parade
• Deal with problems
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Steps to Costume Design
• Always consider problems
• Work with rehearsal clothes and shoes
• Keep actions of the actor in mind Example: dancing or fighting
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Appropriateness – Costume Silhouette
• Each historic period has its own distinctive line and form in dress
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Appropriateness – Costume Silhouette
• Material and cut must be appropriate to the social background and period of the play.
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Color, Line, and Material• Comedies, farces,
children’s plays, and fantasies are normally made of light material and are bright or pastel in color and frothy in design
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Color, Line, and Material• Restoration Comedy – satins, laces,
and brocades
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High Comedy
• Taste and social grace, fashionable
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Symbolic and Allegorical• Require thought and meaning
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Realistic Plays
• Suitable for the character
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Costumes and Color
• Color interprets inner meaning which evokes an audience response
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Obtaining the Costumes
• Work Sheets
• Costume Charts
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Costumes Charts
• Design
• Measurements
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Rented• Expensive
• Fit
• Substitution
• Available for a short time
• Quality
• Cleaning
• Returning
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Borrowing• Mismatch• Fit
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Making Costumes
• Building = making costumes• Velcro = stronger than zippers and
buttons, but must not be seen• Cost• Time
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Care of Costumes• Wardrobe Manager or Costume Master/Mistress• Cleaning and Repair• Dressing Areas• Quick Changes
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The Actor and the Costume
• Actor must wear costume properly
• Actor must be disciplined and responsible