Fittings!

Our fittings for this morning were primarilly to get the wedding dresses that we have fitted. Having sourced Jess' (Hermia's) dress, her fitting was simply to make sure that it fits and is suitable - and I am delighted to announce it sucessful! It will need the length altering when we have the shoe's to go with it, but that will come later.

 

Next was Sacha (Hippolyta) for her toille fitting, which was not as successful - while the layers are the right spacing, the bust and waist lines were very much too high, which also put the placement of the arm holes and sleeves off.

After the collar and sleeves were removed from the toille and the shoulders had been let out to the extent of the seam allowance it was clear that once the waist and bust lines were in the correct place the toille would be a much better fit, with the tiers in the right place.

 

With these alterations, the next fitting will have to be after the actress' current production 'Tales from Ovid' with AUCB.

 

After the fittings, Ethan and Sacha needed to be fitted by Louise for their wigs. This was a fascinating process - I was able to watch Louise pin-curl Sacha's hair and put it up into the wig, and then I was able to help, in a small capacity, with Ethan's fitting. For Ethan it was a more complicated process as not only is his hair densely curly to start with, with a lot of it, but being able to hide it on the crown of his head was no small undertaking. After his hair was put up, Louise covered his head with clingfilm, then with myself holding the film in place she began to cover it with sellotape. With enough layers this formed a hard shell, which she marked out the hairlines onto before cutting around the ears and removing the cap. This will now be the basis of Ethan's wig.