Armor

I am doing some costume consulting for a summer kids drama camp that is putting on the Wizard of Oz. They are doing an anime/steampunk version which I think is pretty exciting.

As part of my consultation I offered to make the costumes for the witches because they were kind of specific and somewhat complicated.

The wicked witch (played by a boy) is not going to look at all like the wicked witch in the movie. He's going to look a lot more like Evil from the movie Time Bandits.

I'm making the dress for Mrs Gulch, which will be tear away for an onstage transformation, and some of the witch costume. I made a red cape and some armor.

Here's the gulch dress:



I don't have a picture of the cape, but there's nothing too unique about it.

For the armor I found this awesome mattress pad at Walmart:




From it I cut out a breastplate and some decorative pieces:





I added some detail with hot glue. Then I spray painted it gold:




I intend to add some red jewels for some added color, but they needed it for rehearsals so I had to hand it over.

For wearability I used strips of elastic sewed on at the shoulders that went through d-rings at the sides. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of that either.

I still have to make a dress for Glinda. She's going to be lavender with bubble decorations.

Hopefully I'll be able to get some final shots of the costumes on the actors.