Making an Act~ Part two, the Costume

*Side note before I start. I want to blog and use  my own photos, but my camera is lost at the moment :(  So when it is found I will show you all, my original costume. xoxo

We all know what Cruella looks like. Long, slip like black dress, red gloves, red heels and over sized cream fur coat. To make my costume these are the MUST pieces. When thinking about costumes I always try to think of what I might already have. I am the queen of reusing costume pieces, I mean hey this stuff gets expensive! I've scoured my closet to think of what I have. I have 1) a long cream coat with a large fur collar. This would work really well, but I don't want to be throwing it on the stage floor or leaving it alone in the dressing room. 2) I have an amazing fluffy white boa. I think this will look beautiful on stage & that is what it was made for (the spotlight!) 3) I have long satin red gloves. Done. 3) I have a short black dress....nah this needs to be long. So I have to buy a new dress, always fun. Last, 4) I have sky high red heels. Done.

 It looks like the think I need first it the dress. I jump onto google images and put in long black dress for inspiration. I found a couple and looked up where to get them. Yikes! The price was waay outta what I would want to spend. Then I had a light bulb go off, "look up slips" So I headed right on over to Fredrick's of Hollywood and found a beautiful long satin slip at the perfect price! Yeah!!! It will need some tweaking to be stage ready...meaning it comes off in a fun unexpected way and it will need some sparkle ;)

It seems now I have my basic MUST items under control. Next I had to think about what goes underneath it all. Since this costume has a set look I couldn't get away from, it's the underthings that got my creative juices flowing! I thought about how I could incorporate the dalmatian into my costume in an interesting way. Bingo! A spotted corset and to make it even creepier... with red lines or ruffles some how (kinda like blood). Red panties and maybe a red bra under the corset. These things I want to make custom all myself. (so I can't wait to find my camera and show you!!!!)  Ok, I'm a little mad now that I can't find it.

This in black will be nice

So here's to finding my camera. And getting this costume together!

xoxo

Dangerous Delilah

Stop Procratinating!

I get so inspired and have so many ideas whirling around in my head. I have lists of songs I want to make an act too. I have pieces of acts choreographed with no song to go to. I have friends that want to do duets. I have so many different costumes I want to make. Sparkles I want to design and glue on. Feathers I want to fluff up and turn into fans or headpieces. Props that have the potential to be great. I dance in shows that have a theme, so i have theme ideas as well as ideas of acts that I want to just create. All a buzz in my head. Buzz Buzz Buzzzzz.

I have a problem. It's called PROCRASTINATION. Boo :(   I like to blame it on the fact that I don't have a car so its hard for me to get to the craft stores. Or that surfing the web is like a wild goose chase one site to another, nothing quite what I'm looking for.And I have to wait till payday to get all the pretty things I want. This really is true to some extent.

What ends up happening is I look and surf and wait and wait and wait. Then suddenly it's a week before the show and I only have bits and pieces of an act put together. So I rush and I throw together what I can and practice like crazy. I love my acts. I think they are very sensual and others are fun. But in my head....they would have been even better. More sparkles, bigger feathers, more colors.....just bigger and better.

But.....why can't I get organized? I think I should just order what I need, plan ahead and start the darn project!! I am always wanting new things for every act. New garter belts, new gloves, new fans, new colors. What I think might help me is to change this thinking. Have some burlesque "basics" that I can customize with sparkles and use in more than one act and change it up and add as needed.  I know this will help with long term cost.

Something else that I hope will help me is to not perform a new act every month like I was doing for awhile. I love the whole process so freakin much that I want to perform every month. The creativity of the whole process consumes me and I love every aspect of it. The reality is I can't.  And I shouldn't.  Quality over quantity right!! This needs to be my new motto :) 


xoxo
Dangerous Delilah