Dress Completed

This week I finished one of the drama costumes: Myrtle’s pink dress! I loved making this dress because it is so quintessentially sixties and because it allowed me to refamiliarize myself with the European method of creating costumes. I discussed in my last blog posts the initial steps--design and pattern making, so I thought I’d wrap up this costume by talking briefly about final stages of costume making--sewing! My personal sewing machine is a small Singer sewing machine, but major costume departments generally have industrial sewing machines that are durable and efficient. 

Below is a photo of the finished product (without the hem):

And here are Lauren and Cameron, the actors who will wear the dress on stage. Because the dress had to fit both of them, it does not fit perfectly. But it does fit!