Here is want I wanted: The crispness and neatness of the US version, the sleeves and overall flow of the German version, the lay of the train on the Russian version, the belt and front of the skirt on the West End version. They are all so different and beautiful! In the end I think it actually ended up looking more like Gina Beck’s dressing gown in 2009 but oh well! That one is stunning too! Sierra Boggess (Las Vegas), Colby Thomas (Germany), Tamara Kotova (Russia), Anna O’Byrne (West End). I spent about 45 minutes poking around LA before finding it! And it is lovely! You can’t see the pattern far away but it is actually very pretty up close:īack to the references now I based my dressing gown off of these: Truth be told I only really looked when I went into normal fabric stores not when I would go up to LA. One problem: apparently white paisley is really hard to find.

I scrapped it last year and decided to make a new one. I had lost a lot of weight by this picture (taken in 2012) and so it was easily 2 sizes too big if not 4 in some places. For a real amateur it turned out alright: Out of basic white cotton and made ruffle out of the same thing. This is not my first time making Christine’s dressing gown.

I have seen many people who costume say “oh I don’t use references”, I’m not calling those people liars I’m just not that talented, I do use references and I actually learn from other people’s mistakes.

Phantom of the opera costume reference