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Costumer' Quarterl First Quarter. 1995California Millinery for hat forms as well as to the ardagestores. George was given forms, fabric and a copy of "From theNeck Up", while I started making the various feather plumes,cockades and pompoms that trimmed them. The crest for theWhite Rook's helmet required about 12 hours work and at times4 handslEnd ofJulyThe Kings" ere mostly done (except for the crowns, whichBruce struggled with up to the day of the Masquerade). TheQueens" ere cut out Bridget started beading her, hite queen.The White Bishop had been fit. <strong>No</strong>thing else was past themuslin stage. George as Black Rook, was about 6" taUer thanthe White Rook. The had to hold one end ofa 5'" 'de by 27'long banner raised e en! between them. Poles, with(ultimately) rings on the end to hold the banner pole had to bemade and painted. (The rings were made from plastic yogurtcontainers hot glue and duct tape!) A second rehearsal washeld and , e knew our mo es (except for the White Rook \ hohadn't been able to attend either rehearsal). It started to feel as" e could pull this off- ifthe costumes got done.Keith was put in front of a sewing machine and told, "You feedthe fabric through here and push down on the foot pedal to makeit go." Kevin" as gi en the fabric for the banner and paint andtold to paint in alternating black & v bite squares.Unfortunatel he though the acrylic paint provided dried tooslowly and decided to use spra paint instead - without payingclose attention to its instructions. He ended up in the emergencyroom from breathing the fumes and "e ended up atConFrancisco with a blank while banner!Liz took home all the unifonn vests to finish along with UleBlack Queen. I got the applique done on Ule While Bishop'ssurplice and Kathleen took it to put on the sequins and beads. Igot the jewels put on the Black Bishop. Bridget workedfeverishly on the uniform jackets and pants.Two weeks before ConFranciscoThe Queens and Kings were mainly done, the military hats weredone, and the White bishop was under control. Surely we couldget six uniforms and one set of vestments done in the timeremaining. I made buckram forms for the miters, and got theWhite Bishop's covered willi fabric and trimmed before leavingto visit friends in N. California during the "eek beforeConFrancisco. (<strong>No</strong>te: This was a really BAD ideal) I took willime the malerials to make the White Queen's wired ruff. theBlack Bishop's miter and the rest of m costume intending to" ark on various planes trains buses and in m friends' livingrooms.In L. A.. Bridget. Liz, George. Bruce and KeiUt worked about 20hours a day on the costumes during Ute last weekend. Werented a V-Haul truck to carry the 30 + costumes, 2 garmentracks 3 sewing machines ironing board and iron, coolers andother stuff we crammed into 2 hotel rooms for Ute 5 da s ofConFrancisco. Major parts of 4 costumes still needed to befinished.At the ConventionWe spent Wednesda night and all of TllUrsda and Friday except for SWAT's appearance in Opening Ceremonies and UteChess blocking rehearsal - in our hotel room " orking, joinedfor large chunks of time by George, Helen and Liz. The WhiteRook hadn't arrived in San Francisco by Ule blocking rehearsal - dela ed by his job -- and " as replnced by Helen at Utat time.21
Costumer's QuarterlyFirst Quarter. J995Fortunately(!?!). only his jackct had bcen cut by thcn. so thcpants could be cut and the jacket altcred to lit Helen.On Friday night, Bridget and Brucc hosted a "Dendarii FrecMercenarics" pany. This meant that all the costumes had to bemoved into one room in order to clear the other for the pony. Acouple of dozcn people showed up. AND STAYED. apparcntlyhaving a great time. (Even though we nevcr got out to buysodas or much in thc way of munchies. and therefore only hadiced tea and punch to serve!) At 11:00 PM, Bruce was left tohost the pony, and we got back to work. Everyone was told thatif they didn't all show up to sew on Saturday. the costumeswouldn't get done. (Bill, a friend of George's, spent all Saturdayfusing squares of black interfacing onto the white banner -MANY THANKS!)On Saturday morning, I took BART over to Berkeley, to pick upthe White King's shoes. dclivcred 2 days late to my friend'shouse. At the hotel. costume racks were moved into the halloutside our rooms to make space for people working inside.Kathleen c
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