Costumes by Samstress

 Koala Costumes Priscilla Queen of the Desert - Amateur theatre production September 2021.  Murray Bridge Players and Singers I started these costumes in October 2020 The Koala costumes are worn by the actors playing Shirley, Cynthia and Marion. When I made the koalas I didn't know who the actors would be so I made 3 sizes and hoped that would workout.  The original costumes are a leotard with a jacket. This design by charade-theatrical.com I wanted something more modest and comfortable for my actors so I went with a long sleeve ice skating leotard which had a skirt and a seperate shrug in fur.  shrug pattern  I made the dresses in grey panne velvet and accented them with faux fur. I chose light blue, royal and aqua purely  because we had two of these in the stash. One colour for each size so the actor could tell them apart.  At first the contrast fur accents were just the cuffs and the chest oval but I later added the skirt trim to bala...

 Gum Nut Costume Priscilla Queen of the Desert - Amateur theatre production September 2021.  Murray Bridge Players and Singers I started this costume in July 2020   Peta as the Gum Nut on roller-skates! In the original production the Australian flowers are gum nut, wattle and banksia. a version of the original Costume design by Charades-theatrical.com  I decided not to make the banksia and made just the gum nut and wattle costume instead. Imagine this costume worn with roller skates and zipping around the stage because that's how the actor wore it! I started by cutting a lot of strips of different pink fabric.  I sewed these into tubes and turned them through. This was my general idea I sewed all the tubes into a fringe I need a skirt for my gumnut so I used this metallic knit dress. Added a tulle underskirt I pinned the fringe to the skirt top so I could trim the ends level I glued a yellow pom pom to the end of every tube This is the finished skirt fringe Once...