![]() Oh, and tell-tale traces of glue all over it.īut my son is happy. What it does have? A working zipper, a tail, two horns, and some pretty wonky leg seams. Here's what Jackson's blue rhino doesn't have: Edging. ![]() It's troubling how much their ragged scissor work bothers me. In the end though, I relent, and let Jackson and his sister, first-grader Bella, cut out the horns and claws from the felt. The other kids? They showed up with moats and flying buttresses. So we painted a cardboard box yellow and made a "Cloud Castle," gluing cotton balls to the bottom and sticking popsicle sticks in the top for turrets. But here's what happened last time I let him "help" on his homework.Īssignment: Make a castle. And to be fair, this assignment from the preschool is as much about getting the kids involved in their costume as it is getting commercialism off the stage during the annual Halloween show. I will never again sew what I can hot-glue. Glue-gunning the other half takes 5 minutes - and looks better. Stitching one side of the zipper takes two hours. Assuming that this costume lasts more than a day, the zipper seam is one that actually might need to hold up under pressure. But I decide to first stitch in the zipper by hand. It seems like the right time to test that theory. Someone once told me that anything you can sew you can glue-gun. ![]() Turns out that being a master of a Sew Perfect machine in 1983 and addicted to "Project Runway" in 2006 do not enable one to operate a Singer. About the only thing I end up cutting out from the pattern is the shape of the inner ear.įor the rest, I crib from another costume already in our possession, a purple dinosaur with the right shapes in the arms, legs and trunk, plus a hood. I quickly discover sewing patterns are as hard to read as a calculus formula. I select a costume pattern five-pack that includes tissue outlines for a bear, a lion and a bunny, figuring that once I add nose horns, any animal will pretty much look like a rhinoceros. Jackson picks out a lovely costume suede in a royal blue I add in white felt for the horns and claws, grab a blue zipper and some batting. So we head to Jo-Ann Fabric & Crafts Store. If my child wants to be a blue rhino, I can make a blue rhino." And this might be the chance I've been waiting for to learn to use that Singer sewing machine we bought to have around the house when my mother-in-law (who, unlike me, sews) comes to visit. "What do you want to be?" I asked, silently praying, "Please say pirate, please say pirate, please say pirate." For a working mom, the words "homemade Halloween costume" are about as appealing as the news, "We've had a case of lice in the classroom."īut I'm game. We're talking Halloween costumes at my kid's day care/preschool. This year, "they" said make it from scratch. In front of the shadow screens, the characters who had turned into rhinoceroses looked like they completely succumbed to the brightly colored world of their clothes: both their horns and their skin were painted in bright colors.Last year, "they" banned the Power Rangers, Darth Vader and anything Disney. The presence of rhinoceroses in the world of the play was enhanced by the use of shadow screens I created multiple rhinoceros horn to go over each actor’s forearm so that when they bowed their head behind the shadow screen, their silhouette would look like a rhinoceros/human hybrid. The costumes do not place the characters within any specific time period instead, they are all brightly colored with a silhouette that suits each specific character. Because Ionesco’s plays are classified within Theatre of the Absurd, the director, other designers and I chose to visually address the play with the absurd in mind. “Rhinoceros” is a challenging play costume-wise because it not only involves the presence of rhinoceroses onstage in addition to an array of more normal costumes for a variety of characters, but there is also an onstage transformation from human to rhinoceros. ![]() I designed “Rhinoceros” for Masque and Gown, Bowdoin College’s student-run theater group.
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