It's A Wrap! Costumes From the Movies

[furtech]

Here's the complete Flickr set!

"It's A Wrap" is a used clothing store whose inventory is from film and video productions. If you want a shirt from "Hanna Montana" for fairly cheap, this is your store. All items are tagged with a code that shows what it's from (and the key is on sheets posted around the stores).

They have two stores now: one at 3315 W. Magnolia in Burbank, CA; another store at 1164 S. Robertson Blvd. in Los Angeles (Beverly Hills adjacent), CA.

In September, they bring out their exotic and goofy stuff: Halloween material! This year the cool costumes were from, "The Scorpion King". They also had some stuff from Van Helsing on display. Check them out!


One of the great things for costumers is that you can see how professional costumers distressed the actual costumes up close (distressing=making the clothing look used or worn or even decrepit). This place is a fantastic opportunity!

I was curious if Iisaw could identify this armor: it's from the Scorpion King. The pieces of metal look like they were forged/pounded and that seems like more than most costuming departments would go through in outfitting a cast. Did they use some hardware that -looks- like armor or was this actual armor from something?

Comments

[iisaw.livejournal.com]

Looks like they were actually custom made for the costume. They were distressed after they were cut out... the cuts are very simple... any experienced SCA armorer could crank out lots of these plates very quickly.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I'm impressed, then: usually costume/wardrobe departments don't have that kind of patience or foresight. I forget the name of the shop (I think they're on Victory Blvd. in Burbank), but they do a ton of armor stuff (actual blacksmithing-kind of armor). Could have been from them.

I'm -almost- tempted by these armor coats, but they're pretty specific and recognizeable (and $$$). So the curve in the pieces (they're slightly convex) is probably part of the punching process? And the dings are just added for texture later?

[iisaw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if you look really close, where a ding meets the edge of a plate, the edge is deformed. That means the distressing was done after the cut.

The curve is probably induced during cutting if the used a Beverly shear. Otherwise it would only take one blow of a hammer in a form to make it.

Still a lot of work, though!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Wow-- you could be, like, CSI: Middle Ages! I don't think it's worth $250 to me, but I'm tempted!