How Do I Hire Costumes?

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Email or phone with basic information of what you would like.

We will need to know:

Date of production

Age and approximate size of Children. (link to costume template below)

Quantity required.

A 25% deposit is payable at the time of booking.

Costumes may be picked up, sent by courier or Australia Post.

Costumes will be scheduled to be available up to two weeks before your concert.

Costumes arrive folded in re useable bags, individually packaged and labelled for students.

A full inventory is also provided.

Costume Return: Simply pack back into boxes and bags and return. NO NEED TO LAUNDER

 

Costume template

 

Prices vary depending on number and style of costumes

Individual items, such as a single shirt or hat are charged at a per item price. You will be pleasantly surprised at the affordability of hiring your quality costumes from us.

Full service costume hire, available for an additional fee, including measuring students, distributing costumes and bump in and bump out assistance. Please enquire about this service.

OF COURSE! As we have made almost everything in stock, nothing is too hard (just try us out!)

Please contact us to discuss your requirements

Custom Costumes Available

The team at Costumes without Drama can design and custom make costumes for performers or for promotional purposes. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

A selection of the productions we have costumed include:

• A Christmas Carol
• A Christmas Pageant (Bushfire Press)
• Aladdin
• Alice in Wonderland
• Annie
• ANZAC 100-year anniversary theme
• Beauty and the Beast
• Beowulf, User Friendly
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Children of the Black Skirt
• Cinderella
• Cinderella Rockerfella
• Currawong Creek (Bushfire Press)
• Commedia dell’arte
• Dangerkids (Bushfire Press)
• Dragon Girl (Bushfire Press)
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Hairspray
• HMS Pinafore (Bushfire Press)
• Into the Woods
• It’s a Jungle Out There
• Kids in Camelot (Bushfire Press)
• Kids in Paradise (Bushfire Press)
• Kids in Space (Bushfire Press)
• Kidsummer Night’s Dream (Bushfire Press)
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Masquerade! (Bushfire Press)
• Mulan Jr
• Nativity
• Once Upon a Time (Bushfire Press)
• Peter Pan
• Pinocchio The Musical (Bushfire Press)
• Pirates of Penzance
• Robin and his Hoodies
• Scheherazade
• School of Fish
• Seussical the Musical
• Shrek
• Superkids (Bushfire Press)
• The Billabong Prank
• The Jungle Book
• The Lion King
• The Little Mermaid
• The Mikado
• The Sound of Music
• The Tempest
• The Wizard of Oz
• Willy Wonka

We have also costumed many original productions written by Drama teachers specifically for their students

Full cast sets are available for all Bushfire Press productions and many other assorted plays.

Sets include: all main characters and themes of assorted items to tie together ‘chorus’ groups.

For example, the package for ‘Pirates of Penzance’ includes costumes for all the main characters: Major-General Stanley, The Pirate King, Samuel, Frederic, Pirate 1, Pirate 2, Sergeant of Police, Mabel, Edith, Kate, Isabel and Ruth, a limited number of accessories like swords, cutlasses etc., bandannas, boleros, scruffy shirts and pants for the pirates, police uniforms for the troupe of police, and chorus of ‘sisters’. We understand that there are often variations made to cast sizes, which can be accommodated.

Tips and hints to look after your costume wardrobe at school

There are two very important rules for the school Costume Wardrobe, sadly they are not always respected by other members of staff or students.

Rule 1. NEVER put costumes away dirty. Five year old perspiration and makeup will never come out, so just don’t do it.

Rule 2. Put it back where it came from. Haha! As if that would ever happen.

The only way to make sure Rule 2 is obeyed is for ONLY one person to have the keys to the room.

Then there is the question of storage. Do you use tubs, shelving or racking. If you have 100 tubs they need to be organised in a ‘fool proof’ manner,  or you will be forever searching.

Clothes racks are definitely the easiest way to organise the wardrobe, but CAN take up a lot of space if the rails are not at useful heights.

Costumes without Drama uses a variety of storage techniques, with the bulk of the costumes hanging on rails.

When hanging costumes on rails, it is so much easier to be consistent with your hanging technique. Believe it or not there is a right and wrong way to hang. We, at  Costumes without Drama ALWAYS hang garments on coat hangers so the hook at the top is pointing to the left if the garment is facing you. That way we can always get to the label for easy identification. And always hang hangers in in the same direction on the rails.

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