Waitress
The waitress uniform consisted of 24 pattern pieces that all came together to make her look. Her skirt, collar, and apron were all rigged for animation purposes, and buckram was used as lining in her sleeves. In addition to that she had a couple accessories to accompany her dress, a name tag and some buttons.
Mime
The mime character is awkward and uncomfortable in his own skin. The art direction wanted his awkwardness to be reflected in his clothing, so all of his clothes were made to fit him too short and very tight.
Puppet Fabrication by Dahlia Kressler and Josie Howe
Screen Printing
I created custom stripe patterns and printed them using a photo emulsion screen printing process. I created two separate stripe patterns for the torso and sleeves.
Arm Extensions
During several points in the film, the mimes arms grow to various sizes. I was responsible for the costuming of all of the long arms. Many of these sleeves were longer than my own life size long sleeves.
Long square arm build by Josie Howe