Production Work - Cabaret

Production work can be extremely fun specially when its for musical theatre. This years main musical was Cabaret, as I was working mostly on opera I only managed to make a couple of items for Cabaret which I was gutted about as the designer was truly amazing and the costumes were to die for. At first I got really simple makes such as the sailors collars, basic shape and straight forward when sewing together. Moving on from that I was able to make a skirt which had fun trims on it, when I say skirt it was so short it could be mistaken for a belt.

The skirt was really fun to do as I had the task of putting in a zip I have only ever done when making the cushion, this was challenging to see if I remembered what to do, also worked with quite a thick fabric which I found abit awkward when putting it through the sewing machine. In the end I got there and the result I was very pleased with.

I was set another challenge of making two collars for two shirts. Yeah seemed simple in the beginning but these collars were very high up and had to stand on there own and meet in the middle at the front. I had to make several collars for practise as I struggled a lot to get the height and get it to be strong enough to stand up, I got annoyed with myself not being able to achieve it first time as I thought I was more capable, after much thought I realised it was a learning curve, this is something I have never done and It wouldn't have been perfect first try. After many mistakes I finally got there and the result I am quite pleased with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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