costumes
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The actors’ costumes are not waterproofed, however, and the cast gets soaked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“A lot of customers will ask me if I would wear these costumes, and I tell them bluntly: ‘I would never wear this.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Drawn from the academy’s collection and 62 private lenders around the world, it brings together costumes, props, prosthetics, creatures and production art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Montana Levi Blanco’s imposing Elizabethan costumes referred to the opera’s Shakespearean source, and the ruin of the Macbeths was all the more noticeable when their grand ceremonial garments were stripped away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“I’m too old for costumes now,” I said.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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