What a week! With the show yesterday my week at college has been incredibly busy but also really good fun. At the start of the week I was so chilled and relaxed, however by Thursday morning it all started to snowball slightly as we slowly began to realise just how much needed to still be done by the next day!! This lead to a hilarious all nighter with Jenna and Natasha - plus A LOT of disney songs and wine.....

This is beautiful silk velvet used for the waistcoat. I had to dye and paint it. Felt  so wrong!

Beginnings of the rather extravagant cuffs.

Marking out the spots for the buttons. 

Less then 24 hours to go and our coat still looked a little on the unfinished side! Which lead to this.....

Panicked by the fact that we were drastically running out of time to finish the high volume of applied decoration  we just had to go for it and hope for the best!

Jenna modelling once again - without the arms it was looking worryingly Indian?!?

These tabs and buttons became the bane of our lives! We made everything on this costume from scratch. Even the buttons.

Sewing them all on! The design shows them wonky so we tried to recreate the same energy and effect on the actual costume.....(wonkiness not side effect of the wine) !

By this stage time was really getting on,  tiredness , wine and a definite overdose of disney meant we were feeling quite delirious so the last job of painting the coat became rather slapdash! We only just stopped Jenna from throwing a whole bottle of glitter all over it.....

And then for some reason we thought it a good idea to have a celebratory cocktail. Not wise!

Natasha looking very attractive.

Yana's beautiful design.

The finished costume! 

Action shot from the show.

All in all I am so proud of us costume lot, all the work turned out amazingly well. The models were all brilliant at showcasing the costumes and they all look great :)

(Once again, the braid is meant to be wonky!)