The Costume

25/11/2024

The Costume is proud to be involved in this year's ChildAid.

4 days more!!!!

https://str.sg/JsNza

The Dream Emporium will be showing at the Esplanade Theatre on Nov 29 and 30. Read more at straitstimes.com.

07/09/2024

Come visit us!

We have too many things at the shop. It is time for LELONG SALES!!!!!
Come find Tops, Bottoms, Jackets, shoes at our booth at APERIA MALL.

Date: 7th and 8th Sept 2024
Time: 11am to 10pm
Venue: APERIA MALL, 12 Kallang Ave, Singapore 339511

SEE YOU THERE!

05/09/2024

-SCAMMER ALERT-

Dear SMEs,
please be very careful if receive a call from the below tels. Scammers.

Mr Zhang, a 'teacher' from 'Hwa Chong institution' called to enquire about costume rentals. He booked a appointment timeslot with the principal and even went to the extend and asked for my car plate so that I can park at the school. (He really a true actor sia. His who what where when how is all carefully planned.) Everything seems legit so far.
Today he called me and asked me for help to buy padding for the school. Everything needs to happen by 12pm. I almost fell for it. Very luckily I was asked to double check with the school involved. Called the school...true enough, no meeting. No nothing. It was a ruse. A scam.
Luckily I managed to check it in time and saw thru their plot. These scammers are really horrible. They lie thru their teeth. No morals no principles, no empathy whatsoever.

So people, please be vigilant. Be prepared. These scammers are like 'hardcore cockroaches'.

PEOPLE, BEWARE...

25/08/2024

Singapore Night Festival

Spicing wrestling up, the wrestlers had characters to play and costumes to wear. Not an easy feat coz not all the clothes were lycra based. Thank you Dominic Grapplemax Pro Wrestling Singapore for trusting me and having me onboard this exciting project. A big shout out to .jpg and for all the beautiful pictures. Thank you for making everyone look awesome! I especially love all those mid air wrestling poses!!!

The match is still on! It is not too late to catch all of them in action at this year's Night Fest 2024. They are on Fri 8pm and Sat 8pm and 9pm. The venue opens at 730pm. Tho it is a ticketed event, but the tickets comes with tokens for you to experience the whole NightFest Carnival experience. Dun say Bo Jio ar....

04/08/2024

The Invisible Pangolin

About 3 months ago, we were commissioned to create costumes for The Invisible Pangolin by Gateway Theatre.
Must not be scary. Actors must be able to move freely. Must have materials that resembles the actual animal stereotypes. Challenge accepted. It took my whole team of 5pax 3weeks from conception to creation. Every single scale of the pangolin was hand cut. All the animals masks were hand drawn and created.
Thank you Jeremy, Jai and Gateway Theatre for giving this opportunity to create such wonderful costumes.
Big Loves and Big Hugs!!!!

17/05/2024

1 month ago, Little Shop of Horrors opened.

Today I received another affirmation for my work.

Thank you so much. You have made my day.





https://criticscircleblog.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/review-idelle-yee-on-little-shop-of-horrors-by-alan-menken-howard-ashman-singtheatre/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabjM81oPGGVZwxdW_TiJBXz29j_ZJNggLrThX5MVhGCSL2u8lpdniLX_Vw_aem_AZN-vo286X_SDONGiHUG4U0U8_wXl50flFFDOepXACdeNAG5dl6hLiLXE2YzBzJGrwJ2h2Z-m57g4Dep-qIDa-dz

Idelle Yee reviews Sing’Theatre’s recent production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’.

12/05/2024

Little Shop of Horrors

Being able to design this show has been a dream come thru ever since Dream Academy did the production more than 10years ago. From the start to the end, it challenged me as a designer, as a wardrobe manager to greater heights. So proud of my team who did all the quick changes for the show.

This show will always hold a special place in my heart.

22/04/2024

Sometimes, things happen for a reason and we just have to trust the process.

StoryTime:
2 weeks before we opened this show, we had costume fitting. So normally before a fitting, my team and I will have to check and prep all the costumes. Ordering and sourcing would have been done at least a month in advance.
Batch 1 of costumes arrived, we prepped and delivered to rehearsal space. Now only waiting for Batch 2. Me flying to Bangkok to have the suits made and brought back in less than 72hrs hours.
So happily I came back from bkk with batch 2. At the same time, the last few pieces of my order came in. When I opened my packages...SH*T! I actually bought a grey suit for Ben le..... So there I was with 2 grey suits, and only 1 was needed. So i quietly packed away the unused suit.
Now, fast forward... we were bumping in for the show at SOTA when the news came that TJ would need to play the role of Mr Mushnik. Even though TJ brought in his clothes, it was too trendy. Now this was already Thursday and we open the next day, Friday. So I thought.... nvm la. Make do 1st. Later than find solutions coz I still have other things to worry about (Like the many many sequins and crystals that I chose to hand paste on).
Late in the night, I remembered. Didn't I have a spare suit? I informed my team to check the 1st thing they reach venue and voila! I did have that spare grey suit. it was even better, I actually ordered a 3 piece suit. Just nice for Mr Mushnik character. My team fitted TJ and I have to say.... it fitted so well, I only need to shorten the pants hem. And the rest is history.

Thank God.

19/04/2024

Thank you Barchormeevoy for the review. My heart is full.

We run till the the 28th April 2024.

Delightfully camp revival of Off Broadway classic brings both darkness and comedy to the stage. For anyone who’s ever owned or cared for a plant, you’ll know that many of them can be in…

18/04/2024

As a designer, we get our inspirations from what we see, what we do. Orin Scrivello's logo was inspired by a biker jacket that I saw when I was on the way to work for Porsche Singapore 2024.
I always knew I wanted to diamonte the logo but I needed a template to work on it. I remembered I sketched out roughly what I wanted and I let my logo creater Ayuni do the rest and the rest is history.

Little shop of Horrors runs from 12th to 28th April 2024 at SOTA. Don't miss it!

16/04/2024

Thank you Timeout for the wonderful review given to Little Shop of Horrors.

So grateful to SingTheatre for giving me the opportunity to design the show and having my team in to manage the show.

I could not have done the show without my team (Fatin, Fa'iqah, ZanJia, Ayuni and Cecilia) who help me in so many ways especially hand pasting the many many sequins and crystals on the costumes and Ayuni who help me with Botanist and Orin logos.

We run till the 28th April 2024.

Do support and get your tickets today!!!

The famous tragicomic comes to life, complete with a brilliant cast and amazing stage design.

10/04/2024

Wishing all our muslim family and friends

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.

Selamat Hari Raya (Acoustic Cover) by Mr Wan on Acoustic Guitar feat Theresa Chan on Vocals.

29/03/2024

Starting a new department for The Costumes.

Stay Tuned...

09/02/2024

From all of us at The Costume,
Wishing Everyone Huat Huat Huat New Year!

02/01/2024

Happy New Year!

Beginning of the year is always a harder time for Costume Rental shops so we decided to pivot this year to help increase our revenue to help with the store's expenses.

Ushering Chinese New Year 2024,
we came out with 3 goodies to share with everyone.

1. Pineapple Tarts
Homemade Nyonya Pineapple tarts with real hand chopped pineapple filling.

2. Prosperity Gold
For all those Pineapple Tart pastry lovers. Balls of Golden pastry baked to perfection.

3. Sugee Cookies
Family recipe. A lovely delight for all young at heart. Crumbly with a nice milky taste. (we do not add milk in this recipe at all.)

24/12/2023