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MOTIONPICTUREC O S T U M E R S .O R G 19 a well-oiled machine quickly! Brent Bruin has a strong background in tailoring and menswear, Julia Braun was a 705 newcomer who proved to be a master with these fine fabrics, and Gustavo Delgado worked on several seasons of Dancing with the Stars, so all those beads and sequins were no match for him. Everyone brought an important piece of the puzzle." Many of the costumes were based on actual vintage pieces found by the shoppers on this production. Dessert tells us, "Our shoppers, MTO [Made to Order] team, and designers were a smooth working team. If we needed stunt doubles or photo doubles and we found a purchase, we would either try to paern the purchase, shop fabric, or print the fabric to match the original costume. We did find an amazing amount of purchases for the principals, day players, and BG players. Also, hard-to-fit characters for height or body types, we would build it MTO. We also respected what the scripts asked for and what was required." As Head of Workroom, Keiser was able to build and recreate glamorous '60s fashion as she had the opportunity to have vintage pieces on hand to see the construction and fabrics through the pieces bought for the show. She said, "Many of them had to be doubled for stunts, so even the pieces that were shopped had to also be built! Thank goodness for CADFab [a company that specializes in digital sublimation printing on fabrics], they were able to scan and print fabrics right from the garment, so we then could paern, cut, and sew the multiples." Keiser also explained that the workroom team did their best to build the costumes using the methods of the original pieces from that time period."Period shows have a definite impact on the paern making and build process. The bullet bras of the time, for instance, were (Above) Creative Emmy Awards: Lindsay Newton (Key Costumer), Carolyn Dessert, Alix Friedberg, Valerie Keiser, Leigh Bell; (right) Allison Janney wearing the dress that inspired Keiser's Emmy dress. 19