costumes and make up

when looking at costumes for our piece , we decided that for the flashback scene , we would need to have quite vintage clothing as the old man would be looking at memories from the 1950's , when he would have been in his youth. when looking at the clothing for the man , when he was in his youth , we decided that a grey tweed blazer , a black shirt , black shoes and grey trousers would work well and go along with the vintage look.

when looking at clothing for the old man's younger companion , we decided to look at many different styles of dresses from the 50's era' as there is lots of choice of dresses from that time period. After looking at these types of dresses , and comparing them to the dresses we had available , we finally decided on using a dress in which consisted of a navy blue blouse with cream spots , with a elasticated waitband and a cream skirt. we then looked at shoes to go with the dress , that brown brogues would work well with the dress , and were also able to get hold of a pair of these as well.

we decided to then turn to make up for the female companion , and decided after looking at styles of make up from that era , that red lipstick and foundation and blusher would give off the right effect.

Costume for the old man was not a problem as the clothes our actor already had on were suitable enough to go along with his age .