Prompted By A Recent Post on DW_Cosplay
Sep. 9th, 2008 06:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fangrrl_squeesY'know, I've got to wonder if there are any product-placement contracts in place for Doctor Who and Torchwood1 particularly for clothing.
There's some eagle-eyed cosplayers out there who frequently identify items worn by leads - I'm thinking especially of Billie Piper and Eve Myles - and hunt 'em down on ebay and such. Diesel and Punkyfish seem to be v. popular and I don't care how much those shows are the particular darlings of the corp, them clothes are not cheap - and the days of a companion getting away with one outfit for the entire season seem to be long gone.
*shrug* It could just simply be an in-kind deal for a significant discount. I remember being rendered practically breathless at the cost of costuming on one particular film set I worked on - and then learned that not only had we landed the entire cast's wardrobe for free (or close to it) but afterwards, it was all just going to get tossed out. Believe me, the crew (and some of the cast!) had other ideas - and what they didn't carry off, I insisted we lug over to the local charity shops. If you happened to score some practically unworn designer gear in the SallyAlly on Haight in the late summer of '96, you can send me a thank-you note... ;)
But, yeah, it's days like seeing a Diesel jacket with an MSRP of nearly five hundred dollars - f'r instance - that make me glad I can sew when I put my mind to it. Sure, it won't be designer, but it'll cost me a tenth as much and look good enough for cosplay purposes...
1 - and SJA. too, I suppose, but I haven't watched that nearly as closely, nor have the cosplayers, although it's clear she's hardly wearing stuff off the bargain-rack from BHS...
There's some eagle-eyed cosplayers out there who frequently identify items worn by leads - I'm thinking especially of Billie Piper and Eve Myles - and hunt 'em down on ebay and such. Diesel and Punkyfish seem to be v. popular and I don't care how much those shows are the particular darlings of the corp, them clothes are not cheap - and the days of a companion getting away with one outfit for the entire season seem to be long gone.
*shrug* It could just simply be an in-kind deal for a significant discount. I remember being rendered practically breathless at the cost of costuming on one particular film set I worked on - and then learned that not only had we landed the entire cast's wardrobe for free (or close to it) but afterwards, it was all just going to get tossed out. Believe me, the crew (and some of the cast!) had other ideas - and what they didn't carry off, I insisted we lug over to the local charity shops. If you happened to score some practically unworn designer gear in the SallyAlly on Haight in the late summer of '96, you can send me a thank-you note... ;)
But, yeah, it's days like seeing a Diesel jacket with an MSRP of nearly five hundred dollars - f'r instance - that make me glad I can sew when I put my mind to it. Sure, it won't be designer, but it'll cost me a tenth as much and look good enough for cosplay purposes...
1 - and SJA. too, I suppose, but I haven't watched that nearly as closely, nor have the cosplayers, although it's clear she's hardly wearing stuff off the bargain-rack from BHS...
