Roman Gladiator Costume
Rehearsal photo by Jay Birdie Photography
Priscilla Queen of the Desert - Amateur theatre production September 2021.
Murray Bridge Players and Singers
For the Venue scene the back up dancers wear RTW (ready to wear purchased garments) glitter dresses we added gold belts and shoulder straps too. The boys wore pleather skirts and a shoulder shield with RTW hot pants.
I used some firm felt backed pleather I got from the home furnishing dept at Spotlight. It is the same fabric I used on the Diva's silver dresses for the petals and binding.
The fabric has a cross hatching texture and doesn't need to be lined or finished as it does not fray.
I used gold and bronze for the costume.
My Pretty'a'template sketch of the design |
Pteruges: Skirt of leather |
Pleather in bronze and gold |
Sewing the bronze binding onto the gold with straight stitch |
Shoulder Shield
I again used the gold pleather, my costume assistant cut multiples of the leaf shape. These were stitched to a backing of heavy weight buckram. Each row was pinned then straight stitched in place before adding the next row.
We decided to use a brown sharpie and edge the leaves so the shape of each was defined and visible from distance.
A strap of pleather edged in bronze was used to secure the shield to the actor
Gold elastic stitched to the underside of the shield hold it to the actors arm.