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MARGARET CATCHPOLE 2012: Dressing-Up Games

The first two weeks of me working at Eastern Angles as Costume Supervisor has been exciting and challenging.  As costume supervisor it is my job to make the designs a reality, and to do this I have to source, buy and make the costumes. For this production I am hoping to source most of the costumes because I don't have the manpower or the time to make too many of the costumes.

A large majority of my time so far has been scouring local (and not so local) costume stores. The play s set in the late 1700s, and unfortunately not many plays were written in this time. So, because of this not many costumes were made, resulting that this is a difficult period to source for.
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