Threads has a Broadway inspired costume post from a year back:
https://www.threadsmagazine.com/2021/10/06/pattern-roundup-broadway-inspired-halloween-costumes
with how to dress up as Broadway characters for Halloween.
(or any day really)
I appreciate their devotion to trying to recreate the Six musical costumes
Pro tip: the costumes have microphone holsters on their waistbands .Why do they cover them with their hands in this photo?
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| the red circles are around the microphone holsters |
also if you just want close ups
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/theater/showstoppers-spectacular-costumes-exhibition.html
adding this V&A video on the costumes
https://youtu.be/9zIIXX6CY9U
Added: Simplicity Andrea Schewe does it again
https://simplicity.com/simplicity/s9627
and https://simplicity.com/simplicity/s9628
Whoa.
But why stop there?
Beetlejuice is still playing
Beetlejuice's suit is just a men's suit, but Lydia Deetz' dress is a very specific thing
Kinda a Lolita thing. Or a prairie thing.....
https://simplicity.com/simplicity/s9653
I'm not super into Joann's but I'm very pleased with the hour I spent at work assembling a list of the things you could buy there right now to make this dress.
Prairie, but make it black
https://www.joann.com/casa-collection-eyelash-lace-fabric-56in-solids/zprd_15832280a.html
So, local high school musical theater, I have solved for your future Lydia (if ever any show was born for high school musicals, it's Beetlejui - if I type it three times....)
While I was searching on Lydia dress images with googly eye, this came up
and I realized this is nothing but a patchwork dress of different prints overdyed with black. Maybe that's what I do with the left over quilting cotton stuffs.
If you already have a prairie dress that wants to go goth, you could over dye it (Rit makes a darker than black overdye kit, and the website is full of information on using black dye successfully
https://www.ritdye.com/instructions/how-to-get-as-dark-a-color-as-possible/
https://www.ritdye.com/products/back-to-black-kit/
You would have to add your own ruffle ruff collar and safety pins. Easy enough.
Homework is a lot, work is killing me, all my work files are GONE and we just got Windows 11 at work and Paint is unrecognizable. So I will get less collage work done at work for awhile.
