fittings

since i shopped yesterday, i didn't go grocery shopping after class as planned. so i had to get up early enough to go to dunkin donuts before meething with frances. god it's gotten cold out here again! it was so fridid and windy, i was glad i was inside the costume shop all day. the meeting with frances went really well. i was so glad to hear her approve of what i have! she was almost completely a fan of everything. she said it looked good, and said i had a nice pallette. my contact with the actors went well too. there are a few pairs of pants that are just irrideamably short, and sweaters that are just too long, but for the most part everythng is alterable. and having tom pin stuff and tell me about fit was awesome. and having pam and chris alter stuff was even better! when i was doing my directing project, this was the point i was serously panicing, cause there was so much to do and i didn't know about so much of it. but it was fun today, and cause it's a mainstage show i have help from the shop. i'm not even going to be there, and they'll have all my alterations done come monday. and carrie's dress! the "fashionable slave attire"! after all the rigamarole, i finally got the rendering and the fabric aproved by the director and to the costume shop, and patti draped it today and i okayed it, and she cut it and built it... and there on the dress form, in real life, was the very dress i had painted! i did the research, made this rendering out of my own imagination, and there, patti had actually created it! it was totally cool. it's almost magical- this effect is caused by the fabric, which is covered in glitter. but the glitter falls off EVERYWHERE- everything in the costume shop is covered with it. when i went to the bathroom i could tell what stall patti had used by the gitter on the floor there. they seem to be pretty cheery about it, considering. i love my bosses.
after work i went out shopping again and FINALLY found bianca something to wear for the funeral. tom had convinced me that the one i had was ok, but the actress thought she looked "lumpy" in it, so it's back to square one. the new one is a tanktop, skirt and sweater though, and i think it may just be perfect. i started doing returns (i forgot a sweater, so i'll have to go back to lane bryant AGAIN). now i REALLY need to enter everything into my regester. my credit card finally declined. uh oh. bad sign.