16-2-13 FirstDraftDesign [Magnificum Orbis]

 MAGNIFICUM ORBIS: COSTUME DESIGN DIARY

Listen to an early draft recording of the music here:

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ENTRY #1

These are the formative draft drawings of the concept drawings of the costume design for the 

March 2 production of 'Magnificum Orbis'.

In keeping with the early Etruscan musical concept (the ceremonial gladiatorial bouts fought as a funerary rite) the costume design for this production will be more closely linked to classical Hellenic (Greek) dress, rather than high-Roman.

Inspiration has been drawn from Peplos and Chiton costume, as well as the simple military Exomis.

Concept drawings: 

 

[CHITON]

A chiton was a common Hellenic male dress,  a sewn garment, symmetrical and androgynous (appropriate for both sexes).
There are multiple sub-styles of the garment, depicted above is the Doric chiton. The "Doric" style was simpler and had no "sleeves" at the wrist, being simply pinned, sewn, or buttoned at the shoulder. 

[PEPLOS]

A peplos is a body-length garment established as typical attire for the women of Hellenic Greece by 500 BC. It was a tubular cloth folded inside-out from the top about halfway down, altering what was the top of the tube to the waist and the bottom of the tube to ankle-length. The garment was then gathered about the waist and the open top (at the fold) pinned over the shoulders.

[EXOMIS]

The exomis was an early Hellenic tunic used by workers and light infantry. The cloth dress became the main tunic of the hoplites during the later 5th century BC. It was made of two rectangles of linen which were stitched together from the sides to form a cylinder, leaving enough space at the top for the arms. An opening at the top was also left for the head. The cylinder was gathered up at the waist with a cloth belt using a reef-knot which made the cloth fall down over the belt, hiding it from view. To allow freedom of movement to the right arm, the seam at the right shoulder was taken apart, and the right hand was passed through the head opening.

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