Devising

Devising

I took this research from Dan Mckay's blog in our group, as it would be pointless and inefficient to research the same things. I do agree with everything said and think the hairstyles for men are easily achieved, all we need is a comb. The women hairstyles look perfect but again, it will be hard to achieve such a look so we may have to tie her back. In terms of clothing it will be hard to find such attire and potentially expensive, but it does give us an idea of what we would be looking for. I think the ladies fashion will be harder to find as a dress would limit movement so trousers would be more sensible to wear, but hard to find, so we may not end up with the costumes we had our hearts set on.

1930's Hair

As our devised piece is set in the 1930's we need to research the HAIR styles from that time period. 

Men- As you can see from the photos below the hair style back in the 1930's is a very simple yet a very smart slicked back to one side style. This look will be easily achieved, no matter what length your hair it will probably be very possible that you would be able to get this look and I know for sure my other group members will be able to achieve this look. The second photo shows some facial hair, obviously he only has a moustache and the is clean shaven on the rest of the FACE, this looks could easily be achieved with make up if needed or a fake moustache as no one in my group would be able to grow this moustache.   

                                                                          
Women- Even though the majority of the research I did showed that the style for 1930's women was short and either curly or finger waved the girl in my group does not have short hair so I tried to find some photos with long haired hair styles, clearly these photos weren't taken in the 1930's they were probably people creating 1930's inspired hair styles, this is helpful as it still is quite clear what time period its from but it allows our female to have long hair. The first photo is something I hope we could achieve with our girl but none of us are hair stylists so it may be difficult, the main thing we want is for her to have her hair off her FACE so we can clearly see any facial expressions during the performance, we may decide to have her hair in a simple pony tail but we do need to have her hair free at the back as in one scene she gets dragged across the floor by her hair. The second photo looks VERY similar to the first photo but the first photo seems to have a finger waved front where as the second photo seems to have a very small victory roll front, both styles show the hair going backwards off the face. 
Another thing about these photos we can gather about 1930's style is the make up, very simple yet elegant and beautiful, something I'm sure our girl could achieve.

1930's Fashion

As our devised piece is set in 1930's a lot of research needed to be collected on the sorts of clothes people wore back then. 

Men - As you can see below that suits were quite popular back in the 1930's. It is also VERY clear that there are no skinny or tight fitting suits, all the trousers are pleated and quite baggy and straight, even though two of these photos aren't in colour it almost seems the suited are a navy blue or beige colour. 
Another thing about the fashion is the how you can work with it, for our devised piece the gang members can all have similar suits but how they wear them is personal, some could have the jacket on or off, with a waistcoat or without and they could also have braces, this created quite a few looks just from one style of suit, this could also help the fact that we have a years time lapse during the performance so the story doesn't seem like one week, having  a suit and being able to deconstruct certain elements of it will almost create a whole NEW LOOKS. the men's fashion will be a lot easier to source as there are loads of suits around, the only issue will be finding suits that aren't slim fitting as this is the current fashion for the present year. 
   

                                                                        

Women- Below I have three photos of different styles of clothing our girl can wear. one issue we have with the our femalecharacter is she works in a speakeasy bar as a waitress but when she meets Fin, they have a dance that involves a lot of lifts, she would need to wear something easy to move in but also in keeping with the 1930's style, I feel if she wore something like the first photo it would be VERY easy for her to move and yet still looks feminine and elegant. In the story we have a years time lapse, this means we may need various costumes and hair styles for each of our characters. 
One problem with the women's fashion of the 1930's is then trying to source is and put it together. 
As you can see just like the men the trousers the woman is wearing isn't tight fitting at all and is extremely flared, the blouse is also quite baggy and free flowing giving the look a very soft look. The last two photos are more girly outfits as they aredresses which is what we want our female character to be, the last photo is something I feel the character would wear as its quite simple and I don't think it would be that hard to source or even make from scratch, the second photo however seems a very complex design and maybe more hard to source but is probably something out character wouldn't really wear if she was only a waitress.