Sounds fun! How do I get into that? Sharon, who started out as a theatre techie
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [h-cost] Mouldy linen In a message dated 4/20/2006 2:44:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because it's garment abuse. Patches are what you apply when something _wears_ through. ***************** You'd go ape in theatre or film where costumes just made are regularly "distressed " [theatre term] or "teched" [film term]. I can't tell you how many brand new garments I've taken cheese graters and palm sanders to! Not to mention the painting and spatter dying. I remember for a Brecht play we had this real WWI uniform that looked brand new. We needed to make it look like it had been through the trenches for a long time. It wouldn't distress! It was the toughest thing I've ever had to mess with. Well, it was made to go through a real war, after all. Stabbing it with scissors and scraping it with razor blades and a generous amount of paint finally did the trick. I love distressing. I always volunteer to do it. It's like make-up for clothes. You can tell a story with teching. What has she had to walk through? What weather has he had to endure? What kind of work have they been doing? And of course [especially in film] there's the progression....like in a chase film where no one looks like they change clothes, but in reality there are like 4 or 5 duplicate outfits each a little more teched according to whatever is happening in the script. This all has to be worked out beforehand, since things are rarely filmed in order. And it's not always to make things look old or abused. Sometimes it has to be subtle...just enough so that things don't look brand new...just worn a couple of times. Rarely does anything go on without some kind of teching. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
