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There's so much that we use and pull from every single day. It's kind of amazing." The building is filled with different spaces for costume storage, but there is also an offsite storage warehouse for even more costume pieces, set dressing and props. Arce tells us that the storage is where they keep the "big costumes. Stuff for Guillermo that we've done over the years." He adds, "Even that stuff 's geing cramped … we're increasing, increasing and just not leing down." There's also a workspace on the roof of the studio's building to use for outdoor cras and spray painting. Quiroga tells us their typical day starts with rehearsal until about 11:30 a.m., so between their call time and the end of rehearsal, the costume core crew of five uses their time to restock the previous episodes' laundered clothes and prepare for that day's upcoming work. They "catch up with each other to get ready for what's going to happen in the aernoon if we know, or to figure out how we're going to jump ahead and clean up one section. We do some planning in the morning, and then usually at rehearsal or aer rehearsal is when it changes a lile bit and we get to know what we need to do for the rest of the day, whether it's work on particular bits or get ready for Jimmy going to New York at the end of the month. So, when we come back from our hiatus, that's what we'll be working on in the morning to the early aernoon until we get other assignments." Quiroga continues, "Noon comes by, we break for lunch and then when we return, it's either we're geing calls from the green room to help prep for the guests or we have bits that have been assigned to us." The show films around 4:30 p.m. with a live audience and a musical guest—oen an outdoor concert in the parking lot behind the building— and they wrap and prep for the next day. The crew operates like a theater costume troupe and assists on every task the team takes on from helping Wilschke in her builds or running to shops and costume houses to find bases to build off of for large animal walk-abouts. Estrada tells us, "I will say that I think Cindy is 100% on the money about how we do operate very much like a theater department. I would say it's almost even kind of hard to classify us. We all kind of have to do everything. And in a way, I feel like it's made us really strong Costumers, and I think that maybe I didn't realize it as much until I had the opportunity to design a show and then I realized like that I've 18 WINTER 2026