Costume Designer
This pun-filled collection was birthed from our families favorite game to play together. Each timey-wimey piece included bits & parts of historical garments from Tudor pumpkin breeches & Elizabethan whisks all the way up to men’s 1930’s college wide leg trousers. A very playful hoity-toity high tea feel was definitely the priority. This collection was excavated from the bones of discarded party supplies, prehistoric tableware, comfy tea time linens, AND actual broken dishes/tiny tea set pieces.
Some details to point out/help answer “what is that questions” lol:
The stacked cups on the triceratops head are 3d printed and decoupaged/painted except the very ends there is a spout off a real teapot and a real mini teapot on the other side.
Plastic knives as claws & paired spoons as frill points.
Paper plates spikes & ruffles, & as broken pieces trimming the skeletal boning structures of bustles, and tails. And fully forming a whisk on the triceratops.
Paper napkins decoupaged on headpieces, as ruffles, and covering shoes
Actual pieces of broken dishes (either smoothed in my Rock tumbler or on a grinder by my cousin) were used on hoops, panniers and tails, as buttons, mosaic eyes, teeth, clothing embellishments jewelry pieces & charms.
Nearly all fabrics were tablecloths, table runners, tea towels, placemats, curtains, cloth napkins , or overstock home decor fabric which, of course meant that there was a great deal more laundering & deconstructing before the actual building of the garments.
Models:
TEA-Rex: David G
Velocirapt-TORTE: Anita Rhynes
Brachio-SAUCER: Cortney Brooks
Tricera-POTS: Wendy Hartman
Photographers: Randall Schieber, Tony Bentivegna, Kara Neumann, Larry Hamill
Assistant: Mary Breitfeller
MU: Brihanna Boggs
Love & all the Help: My Family that came into town!