And all those puffings on the costumes … instead of being one long strip and all caught by hand, we made an individual one and then glue gunned it on.' 'He used to dribble it out onto a piece of lace, trace around and embellish the lace pattern and then leave it. Others saw the potential of DIY or technological introductions, as maker Ralph Dyer recalled about Desmond Heeley and the glue gun in the 1970s: Oliver Messel famously used coloured sweet papers, raffia, pipe cleaners and chandelier crystals, while Lila de Nobili mixed antique braids from period dresses with contemporary cheaper trims. 2006AC9855ĭecoration on a costume can range from the extravagantly expensive, like Chaliapin's costume for the Coronation scene of Boris Godunov, to ingenious ways of suggesting opulence with inexpensive materials or the unexpected use of, say, industrial substances. Coronation robe for Boris Godunov in Modest Mussorgsky's opera 'Boris Godunov', about 1910.
