But What About the Wardrobe?!

Hello readers! Fiona (from the publicity team) here, and yesterday I was able to catch up with some of the costume girls and hear about what they're doing!This year our costume team is trying to get nominated for a Cappie!

Our two main costume girls are Bekah and Assie,

Bekah has been sewing since middle school, Assie also learned how to sew in middle school, she's made pajamas before and learned how to cross stitch! Both these girls admit it's very hard to find time to sew with their other busy schedules.

For costumes the girls are hand-making two pairs of pants, a skirt, a dress, and have to alter many shirts and pants for the other actors. The most difficult piece is the dress because it requires the most measurements and material!

The show consists of mostly reporters "Reporters generally wear boring clothes" the costume girls tell me. "We wanted to make the costumes interesting, so we started looking for colors like blue, and fun patterns for them to wear that could be fun, but also appropriate for their character and time period."

The hardest costume piece for these girls to find so far were the police uniforms. Since they had to be correct to the time period they couldn't just use any police uniform. "We actually had to order chef uniforms," Bekah admits. "They are the right color but we'll have to remove the buttons and sew new ones on and spray paint them since they aren't in the right place or the correct color. We'll also have to adjust the collars and possibly make our own hats."

Seems like these girls are really working hard! Be sure to come to the show on May 1st-3rd to find out how all the costumes turn out!