Costume replica of a 1920's chiffon dress for my sister, Sharon McNulty, during her singing and stage performance days, The It Girls.
Costume Design
Janet McNulty
My involvement with costume design probably started with my first Halloween costume at the age of eight. I cut up a blue bed sheet and hand stitched an elf costume, boots, tunic and cap.
No one showed me, I just did it.
In my adolescent days, I set trends with how I was dressing. I haunted second hand stores and my friend’s attic trunks, always insisting on wearing old dresses and accessorising with a modern day flare. At my boyfriend’s graduation, he wore the classic black top hat and tails with white spats on his shoes and a golden headed walking stick, me wearing a long black chiffon gown, white satin gloves and my hair in ringlets hanging to my shoulders. Everyone went crazy; black was not the norm for the occasion. The following year, many couples copied our initiative. I knew then that I had some kind of style that influenced others.
Chorographer Gisa Cole 1989
Costume / Dancer Janet McNulty
Later on, I was a dancer first and costume designer second. Sometimes, I was dancing in the pieces that I had created the costumes for and other times watching my designs dance on stage without me. It was a thrill. This was a passionate, prolific, and creative period in my life. In these years, I attempted to capture the meaning of the dance in the costumes.
Janet McNulty
My involvement with costume design probably started with my first Halloween costume at the age of eight. I cut up a blue bed sheet and hand stitched an elf costume, boots, tunic and cap.
No one showed me, I just did it.
In my adolescent days, I set trends with how I was dressing. I haunted second hand stores and my friend’s attic trunks, always insisting on wearing old dresses and accessorising with a modern day flare. At my boyfriend’s graduation, he wore the classic black top hat and tails with white spats on his shoes and a golden headed walking stick, me wearing a long black chiffon gown, white satin gloves and my hair in ringlets hanging to my shoulders. Everyone went crazy; black was not the norm for the occasion. The following year, many couples copied our initiative. I knew then that I had some kind of style that influenced others.
Chorographer Gisa Cole 1989
Costume / Dancer Janet McNulty
Later on, I was a dancer first and costume designer second. Sometimes, I was dancing in the pieces that I had created the costumes for and other times watching my designs dance on stage without me. It was a thrill. This was a passionate, prolific, and creative period in my life. In these years, I attempted to capture the meaning of the dance in the costumes.
Halloween Spider costume 1997
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Devil hat that flips up in the back to transform into another character, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde concept. |
Ballet BC / Go Slow Walter 1990
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A Kinder Garden 1990
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Choeographer Loraine Thompson 1991
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Choreographer Chick Snipper 1992
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O'debt and O'Deal 1988
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Dancecorps / Twisted Love 1990
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