Mikhaila Pye – Senior Wardrobe Manager, Northern Ballet
Northern Ballet’s wardrobe team create all of their costumes in house, meaning that every costume you see on stage has been handmade.
Mikhaila Pye, Senior Wardrobe Manager at Northern Ballet, gave us some exciting facts about the costumes for their new ballet The Little Mermaid.
”There are 3 complete sets of costumes for Marilla, The Little Mermaid, as well as 13 wigs and 26 headdresses.
In total we have had 206 metres of fabric printed for the women and 170 metres for the men, and we have also used over 14 metres of sequinned fabric, dyed different colours for the different characters.
The women’s sea costumes use 14 metres of fabric per skirt and 200 buckles were ordered for 50 men’s kilts.”
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