Costume Ideas
As the parent teacher president it is your job to come up with costume ideas for all the kids for the annual Halloween parade. The parade is scheduled to take place 4 days from today and you are really starting to panic. You have been so busy at home and with work and you have devoted no time to this project at all. It’s as if there aren’t enough hours in the day. Where are you going to find the time? Even if you could find the time where are you supposed to come up with costume ideas for an entire class? You work in sales; you don’t know anything about creativity. Why don’t they hire a professional? The school thinks that you are the professional because you run such a successful company. What they don’t understand is that running your company and coming up with twenty three separate costume ideas for all the kids in your daughter’s class are two completely different things. How can you let them down easy though? You don’t want to hurt any one’s feelings nor do you want to step on any one’s toes? You want to bow out gracefully. Maybe if you just don’t show up to the next couple of meetings and you don’t answer your phone they will get the picture.
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Question: I am going to play Peter from "A Christmas Carol" and I need Costume ideas. All I know is that it is set in the 1840's and 50's. PLEASE HELP!!! Thank you!Answer: Dickens was writing about Victorian London during the Romantic era. What this means for men is tighter pants, though lower classes would have still been wearing them somewhat looser, a longer coat, standing collars, a cravat and waistcoat. Is there no costume designer for the production who can guide you? If it comes down to looking in thrift stores, try to avoid pants that have an obviouse zipper placket (zippers weren't invented yet) and definitely stay away from pants with patch pockets or front pockets. Pockets of this time period were horizontal and set in at the waistband. As far as shirts go, if you can find a vestige of the late 80's early 90's craze for collarless shirts, the one of those would work nicely. Just be sure to look for something that is made from natural materials in neutral colors. A waistcoat might be rather more difficult as the cut of them has changed rather drastically over the last 200 years, but browse around and see what you can find and possibly modify. An excellent online resource is the costumer's manifesto at http://www.costumes.org/ Break a leg!!