This is for Genevieve so she can read my posts, and for the fam too who don't know BYU lingo...
A-room: the onsite storage for costumes in the shop
the shop: the costume shop, where I work
Off-site: our costume storage by the old ag complex
the van: the astro van thatI drive off-site
HFAC: The Harris Fine Arts Center, where I live
Deanne: the costume shop's cutter/draper. She makes the patterns for our shows. She is also the assistant manager of the shop
Donnette: The manager of the shop
flat-patterning: using a standard sloper to make patterns, everything is flat
sloper: a generic cut out of a specific size of garment. They come in bodices, skirts, and sleeves.
Macbeth: our current Pardoe production, set in Mesoamerica/Book of Mormon times
Pardoe: our main theatre in the HFAC, seats about, oh I don't know, 600
DeJong: our concert hall in the HFAC seats roughly 1200
Nelke: our experimental theatre for student productions in the HFAC, seats about 150
Margetts: our black box theatre in the HFAC, probably seats aroud 80
stitcher: one who stitches. Also known as a seamstress or seamter, but we have to be politically correct here. I am a stitcher
first hand: a super stitcher that takes Deanne's mock up patterns, cuts them out of the fashion fabric and sews them together
mock up: a muslin prototype of a costume. These are created by Deanne and sometimes constructed by the first hand. After the first fitting they are altered and a pattern is cut from them
fashion fabric: the fabric that a costume will be made out of.
5 comments:
I'd appreciate it if you'd alphabetize your list.
Mucho appreciation, Madam. I love not feeling like an idiot.
I would like to see you use every one of those words in one, long, run-on sentence!
In the shop in the HFAC Donnette told me to go in the A-room to find fashion fabric for Macbeth (our show on the Pardoe because Berenice is on the Margetts; Go Dog Go! on the Nelke and we hardly ever get the De Jong) but we had none that a first hand and myself, a stitcher, could find, so Deanne told me to take the van and go off-site to pull something for it, but the van was stuck in the snow and we realized that indeed, Deanne had already used a sloper to flat pattern a mock up for the garment we needed and also we'd already ordered the fabric online, so all was well in Zion.
Wow...that was boring. :P
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