12 thoughts on “A Tour of Angels Costumes

  1. I’ve done corporate librarianship and other special collections before. The challenge of cataloging their garments sounds amazing.

  2. I’ll take one of those, and one of those and… The picture of the chatelaine reminded me of an oddment I found in my great-aunt’s closet. It was a long velvet cord looped in the middle and terminated by two sliding clamps. We finally figured out that it must have attached to a waistcord to gather up one side of a skirt. I wonder if there might have been another for the opposite side, but never found one.

  3. On my bus ride home this week I was able to see into a costume trailer that was parked along the route (with some actors’ trailers and a makeup/hair trailer). It was enormous and organized. I don’t know what’s filming in my town right now but this was for a night shoot.

  4. I got to take this tour last summer, as part of USITT’s Costume Study Tour.
    It was amazing, and our tour guide was delightfully dishy.
    I particularly loved the room with all the military insignia: imagine Olivander’s wand shop, but with ribbons and medals and patches, all sorted and labeled and boxed sky-high.
    Heaven.

    1. Sigh. That was DIVE into that warehouse. Darn typos AND spell check!
      Also I really love that chatelaine.

  5. That looks so fascinating! I’ve never been to England, but I would love to be able to take a tour one day. I wonder if one person is expected to know where everything is, or if they’re divided into being responsible for certain sections? (Like by period, for example) I’m sure even if they are, it’s still a hell of a feat to organize that much without any sort of computer database. Very impressive!

  6. Fascinating, thanks for the tour. Clearly they know their stuff. No doubt they would be far too professional to admit to it, but I wonder if, when a costume designer turns up with some totally whackadoodle ideas (cough, MQoS, cough) the staff in the workroom just go “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”, and then get on with it?

    It does help to explain why extras are often more accurately dressed than the main characters.

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