![]() ![]() ![]() The vertical supports that form a sort of cage around a person’s torso are called boning, probably because they were once made of whalebone, but now they’re plastic, metal or, when “Gentleman’s Guide” costumer Samantha Fromm Haddow needs a low-cost corset hack, repurposed zip ties. ![]() And, while corsets were worn in the Regency period of Jungle Theater’s “Miss Bennet,” costume designer Sarah Bahr specifically chose not to use them in order to reflect the modern sensibility of Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon’s “Pride and Prejudice”-inspired play.Ĭorsets, too, have been modernized. In the Guthrie Theater’s “A Christmas Carol,” 35 costumes have a corseted silhouette. You put that armor on and you have this thing standing between you and all of those feelings.”īody-shaping corsets, the Spanx of a bygone era, were a key element of the recently closed “Rocky Horror Show” in which Frank-N-Furter wore one as outerwear, and corseting figures into four current shows: Most of the women wear them in “Cinderella.” The female lead of Old Log Theatre’s “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” announces her flirtatiousness with one. “It’s an armor between you as a person and your nerves or questions about whether you’ll do a good job. That’s not a movement that’s available to you as this character,’ ” said Ness, who also finds that the garments make her more secure. We’re talking about the process of assembling the bone-like structures that support corsets.Īutumn Ness, who wears a Children’s Theatre Company costume shop-created undergarment to play the stepmother of “Cinderella,” loves a corset. A lot of boning is happening in Twin Cities costume shops right now, and get your mind out of the gutter. ![]()
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