Hi Becky, My daughter's ballet school does Nutcracker every year. They have a M Ginger dress that is large enough to hide about a dozen kids under it. You said your's is for a play, but it seems like the construction could be similar. They used the white plastic PVC pipe used for plumbing to create the structure, so that it would be rigid enough to hold its shape and hold the weight of the skirts. It has a top piece that is oval shape and a bottom piece that is a "C" shape (to allow the children a "door" to come out of), and then a few upright pieces, about every 2 ft?, to hold the two together. Then they used one of those back braces for workers who lift heavy stuff that has suspenders attached. The skirt frame is attached to that somehow (I never checked it out close up). Then the M Ginger dress goes over the whole kit-n-kaboodle. We went to see Nutcracker in San Francisco last month and I noticed that their M Ginger dress frame seems to be on wheels. The nice thing about that is that it probably takes a lot of weight off of the person wearing the costume and it "glides" across the stage. I have some pictures, but they don't show the framework. Let me know if you'd like to see them. HTH, ~mary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:08:23 -0500 From: "Becky" Subject: Re: [h-cost] robe a la francaise I have to design a "Mother Ginger" costume for this Christmas play of the Nutcracker. I have many ideas from various sites. I see how to make the hoops atand out at different angles. I've thought about this since the first of December!!!! I work on it in my sleep. I've looked everywhere for a pattern to use but so far nothing is as large as I need. BUT some of the pictures I've found have been very helpful. Yours has helped me to see how to put it together. Any suggestions on how to make the underpinning hoops or farthingale that is 2-3 yards across? It has to be large for that character. «:*´`´`*:»§«.»§«:*´`´`*:».«:*´`´`*:»§«.»§«:*´`´`*:» "Pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick & wicked." ~ Jane Austen "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before." ~ Steven Wright _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
