Bi & C - Costumes Flashcards
What is the structure of a Bi question
The name of character and info from question
Costume idea - colour, fabric, style, era, hair, accessories
Justification for idea linking to theme and character knowledge
Link to Malala or globe using the theme of character
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Minnie’s costume
Long black, Victorian dress, white apron, messy bun, formal
Shows her lower status as a working class
Billy’s costume
Loose brown cotton trousers
Stained shirt
Brown woollen waistcoat
Dirty, brown laced up boots
Brown to represent earthiness and dirtiness, as a working class man,
Bagginess shows he does not belong at Cambridge,
Clothing represents his poverty and reality of Maeve’s background
Carolyn costume
Victorian style long purple skirt
White blouse with lace colour
Purple velvet jacket with brooch
- to represent her wealth and travels
Thick layers of skirt to show her financial status, lace to show extreme wealth
Tess costume
Victorian style long red woollen skirt
White blouse and black velvet jacket - red symbolising Malala’s blood / fiery passion for her studies and nature to stand up against the patriarchy and rush her reputation by seeing Ralph
Bun with strands falling out to show she is a rule breaker
Breaks free from firm grip of society
Celia
Victorian style long skirt - represent how she takes her status as a blue stocking seriously
High colour on blouse - she will conform with societal expectations
Neat bun -she follows rules
Maeve costume
Victorian grey woollen long skirt - class status compared to Celia, Carolyn
White blouse and green woollen jacket - to show her hope for her future but the edgings of her jacket are black, foreshadowing her dismissal from girton
Mrs Welsh costume
Long Victorian skirt
Blouse and jacket in pale green and purple to show her determination for women’s rights – pale colours show that she will not use the political suffragette movement to win the vote for the women’s right to graduate.
Her blouse will have a highLacey colour with a gold brooch at the neck to show her high status and importance and she will wear a large brimmed Victorian hat with a white feather to show status and the white feather showing a clarity of her goal for the women to be treated equally as the men and to be able to graduate
Miss Blake costume
A Victorian woollen long skirt of I’m dark green and dark purple jacket with a white blouse.
The colours of the suffragettes are dark to show how attached miss Blake is to this political movement but also the darkness shows the death of sadness she feels in losing her job at Girton
Her hair would be tied back in a low bun with a black ribbon and her shoes would be a dull black colour to show[ that she’s being forced to be an outcast from Groton for going against Mrs. Welsh’s wishes.
Mr. Banks costume.
A loose fitting suit to show he makes room for the women’s ideas.
Blue velvet waistcoat show how deeply he cares for the blue stockings.
Round collared to shirt show his acceptance of the women at Cambridge
Black dull polished shoes to show that he’s not accepted at Trinity college when he loses his job for speaking up for the women
Lloyd costume
Black pinstriped tight fitting woollen suit to show how he will not move from his fixed viewpoint on women with the pinstripes enforcing his rigid views.
The colour black also showing his strict you obsessed with that opinions and high status. He would wear a red velvet waist coat to show that his wealth and how he is prepared to show violence against women when they attempt to win the right to graduate.
Highly polished pointed black shoes and his shirt would have a point of colour – to show his violence against women
Cufflinks or a pocket watch to show. His wealth she likes chocolate covered strawberries and wine. She likes you all the time I have so long.
Holmes
A Victorian wooden suit – has the style of the suit less type fitting than Lloyds, but not as used as Mr Banks to show that he is moving towards a viewpoint that is more supportive of women.
The suit is dark grey rather than Lloyd’s black again to show a softening of attitude.
Holmes would wear a pale blue silk handkerchief in his pocket and pale blue satin to represent that he is a Cambridge student but also to show that his view off bluestockings softens as the play progresses.
He loosened the collar of his white cotton shirt to show he’s more relaxed about the Girton students
Holmes is not as wealthy as a lawyer, but he buys a delicate pair of gloves that have come from Paris
Wills costume
Victorian suit of trousers, waistcoat and a jacket with a white shirt and grey velvet waistcoat.
The grey coat shows that he knows he’s in the shade of Tess’s love for Ralph and that he would have to wait for her to see if she will marry him one day in the future.
The velvet fabric shows the depth of his feelings and how he wants to protect her from ruining her reputation
Ralph’s costume
A Victorian suit of trousers, waistcoat, and jacket.
The waistcoat would be a dark gold satin to show the falseness of his love for tess. It is all show but not real.
The fabric of the satin makes his declarations of love to Tess slippery.
Ralph’s hair slicked back to give the impression he’s a romantic but is another example of his deceitfulness
Edwards costume
Edwards costume would be similar to Holmes but he would have a pink satin handkerchief and a pink satin waist coat to show his love for maudie and that he is more relaxed about the women being at Cambridge because he doesn’t fully think or engage with what women are going through
Miss bott costume
She knit a lot and wears glasses. She’s an older Victorian woman and her costume must reflect this.
She should wear a black Victorian dress with white collar hair would be in ringlets The skirt of the dress would be full with a petty coat underneath underneath it.
What does cotton show?
Cheap and easy to replace.
Can rip easily and slow to dry
What is velvet show?
It gives a very luxurious look for high status characters.
Can be expensive
What does purple brown and pink represent?
Purple – royalty, high status, power
Brown – earth, dirt, nature
Pink – compassion, love, femininity
What does white grey and red represent?
White – purity, innocence, goodness, faith
Grey – boring, plain, oppression, routine
Red – danger, blood, passion, love, fear
What does green blue yellow and black represent
Green – nature, growth, innocence, progress, jealousy
Blue – opportunity, death, strength, truthfulness, water, cold
Yellow – light, joy, youth energy
Black – night, evil, high status, mystery, death
malala context
- malala yousafzai shot on her way to school
- activist for women’s education
- red to symbolise blood shed when Malala was shot
globe theatre context - gender inequality
gender inequality - only male could perform in these plays as women were not allowed on stage
ie. the Girton students could not graduate just as women in shakespearean times could not perform
when was blue stockings set in
1896
