After finishing at the Lyric Friday, I have a free Monday before I start with Kingsley Hall, a freelance costume tailor tomorrow.
I’m excited to work with him as I specialised in tailoring for my projects last year and I look forward to experiencing the freelancing side of the costume industry.
At the Lyric for one of Abonaza’s costumes, we commissioned a freelancer to make a wrestling suit and cap. Harry decided achieving the vision would not be worth the time it would take us and getting it made out of house by someone specialising in lycra bodysuits would be a good use of the budget.
From our perspective, they had a few phone calls and sent the design, measurements & fabric. A week later the costume and an invoice were delivered. Now I’ll get to see what it’s like on the freelancers’s side, creating costumes from measurements remotely and juggling different projects for different clients.
Preparation
To remind myself of the terminology, processes and stitches used in tailoring I revisited my submissions from my second year and went to the library to look through the tailoring resources there. Knowing we’d be working on Hamilton, I also looked into mid-18th century fashion and patterns.