Costume

Hello everyone!

Sorry I haven't been available recently as I have been away. Here, I am going to talk about the costumes of the show 'Wicked.'

This is the dress that Elphaba wears during Act II. It appears that because she is living 'rough,' she has had her original dress, used for 'Defying Gravity' ruined and it would be too dangerous to return home to get a new dress. The dress has lots of different fabrics and material to add the 'destroyed' effect.

All of the different fabrics and textures used on this dress create different effects. For example, under the stage lights, parts of the dress that some shinier matrials have been used on catch the light better than others just like water. This again is to do with her living 'rough' in Oz.

Although the dress is beatiful, all the dark shades of greens, reds and blues used, mainly on the bottom half of the dress look like moss and other things from the forest have got caught on the dress and make it look a bit dirty.

On the top part of the dress and the sleeves, the strips of lace and net-like fabric that hang down give the effect that the dress is ripped and is fraying from the damage.

All of the different colours cross and interlink to create a very detailed dress suitable more for a close up, possibly a film, but not a stage show. The dress costs about $20,000 to make and is one of my favourite costumes in the whole show. It is definately my favourite Elphaba dress.

Lillian