Costume Overload

Just when I thought the term was off to a wonderful start, this week hit. Holy crap! I've been up to my eyeballs in stress that I did not see coming!

The two things at school that have been getting under my skin (literally, at some points... stupid hand-sewing) are costume related. I feel like I'm drowning in Theatre sometimes. My class is making all the costumes for DalTheatre's third show this season, so I'm taken up with that. The actor I'm making costumes for is one of the skinniest men I've ever met... the alterations to his clothes have been crazy. It's good to learn this stuff through doing it, but it's still pretty crazy that we're in charge of a whole show. On the plus side, I'm doing a pretty neat alteration to a jacket. I'll try and get a picture up of it when I'm finished =)

Otherwise, all my spare time this week has been taken up with my research project for my theatre class. I elected to do an essay which would describe possible costumes for a play we're reading from the English Renaissance, called The Duchess of Malfi. Historically accurate costumes, of course. And I picked the scene with the most characters in it, of course. I just [finally] got the essay together... and oh my. It's been an ordeal.
Here's a picture of the Duchess of Amalfi that the play is loosely based on:

I love how hard they tried in Renaissance art to accurately depict the fabrics their outfits were made of. Look how luxurious her over dress is! It seems almost touchable