![]() Moving further down, the costume includes black brief type pants which has a brown belt and attached black suspenders which attach directly onto the black fishnet stockings. The costume starts with the black vest, tied together with black lace and slightly open at the bottom, if you are a little sensitive over your figure you may want to wear something underneath this. This costume is one of the best costumes available on the market today and will have you looking just like Frank in his big castle of torment. Now you can dress just like the main himself in a Frank-N-Furter Rocky Horror Costume from the 1970’s cult classic movie. Janet Weiss and Brad Majors didn’t know what they were letting themselves in for when they turned that car around and headed into the spooky castle grounds. Her massive ‘do’ of dark wavy locks with gray streaks at the temples is straight out of “Bride of Frankenstein.Click To See All Rocky Horror Costumes & Accessories Rocky Horror Frank-N-Furter Costumeįrank-N-Furter, originally played by Tim Curry) was the eccentric owner of the dark and dismal castle located out in the middle of no-where, deep down in the Wilde’s of Transylvania mountains. Magenta gets the upstairs French maid regalia-a short black uniform and frilly white apron. You can’t go light on the eyeliner.Ĭolumbia and Magenta’s costumes combine great fantasy dressing. Another across-the-cast effect is heavy eye makeup. ![]() For the eye shadow, he mixes the base with Maybelline liquid and waterproof eyeliner, “because it won’t smear or drip.”Īll of the stars with major billing wear fishnet hose and high, high heels at some point in the film. To create his heavy-duty makeup, Dockery said he uses Ultra Fair base. The hardest elements to locate, said Dockery, are the large pearls and the platform shoes, but he’s always had good luck finding shoes at local thrift shops for about $2. Dockery is a “Rocky Horror” costume specialist, he has been playing the part of Dr. The ones available in the lingerie shops all have built-in cups that look deflated on a man. Frank in the Nuart’s cast advises men to have their corsets custom-made. Frank are a long cape, corset, bikini underwear, fishnet hose, platform shoes, large millimeter pearls (choker length), elbow-length gloves without the fingers and scads of eye shadow. The main ingredients in dressing as the flamboyant Dr. Rabid fans have had to do likewise, sewing their own with occasional trips to the secondhand shops to assemble the look. Only the clothing in the wedding scene and various undergarments were bought. “As I grow up I am a bit alarmed at what I spawned,” she said ruefully.īlane estimated she had 90% of the costumes for “Rocky Horror” custom-made. But more than 15 years later, she will take the blame. She insists on sharing her prescient design sense with street savvy-London designer Vivienne Westwood. The reason the costumes were a hit is we had picked up on something that had just begun.”īlane modestly declines the credit for launching the underwear-as-outerwear trend. ![]() “The look was showing up in Chelsea and Kings Road. “It was the beginning of glitter rock,” she said. Blane was in her early twenties when she created the look that would eventually spread to music videos and Melrose Avenue. The costumes the live cast wears at the Nuart bear a marked resemblance to clothing you see in the clubs around town-black corsets and bras worn without blouses, rhinestone encrusted bustiers, long frock coats and minuscule skirts. The fashion trends have caught up with Blane’s vision. You see people in the tube (subway) station that look far more bizarre and with less clothing.” “At the time they were quite anarchic from a costume point of view,” Blane said from London, where she recently mounted yet another stage production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” “To see the body so close and so rough was a terrific shock unless you were used to seeing strip shows.
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