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Maxi VS mini: Christine costumes

The Elissa skirt: The Elissa skirts has been all flat, bell shaped, panier shaped (I.E. wide over the hips, flat in the back and in front), with a grand bustle, and as semi-large crinolines. Here’s a panier-shaped one with gigantic tabs, from West End / the RAH concert alongside a small bell-shaped japanese one with short and narrow tabs.

The Star Princess skirt: I have no idea why one of the Hamburg skirts is like a pink explosion, but it is. It’s huge, long, wide, with a reversed order of the stars. You probably can’t tell, but the costume featured very short boots. In contrast, the newly made Russia skirts were barely knee-length, and fairly narrow. But in return, they had very long boots. So…

The Wishing bustle: Ba-ba-ba-da-BIM! Ba-ba-ba-da-BOM! The US costumes has always kept that 1870s flair seen in Maria Bjørnson’s design, so also in the Wishing bustle. Which is the ultimate contrast to the early European costumes, where the bustle was defined right over the butt, but the lower half of the skirt was fairly flat, and without any sense of train in the main skirt. The depicted one here is from Austria.

The Aminta skirt: As this skirt demands tiers of embroidered layers, there’s limits to how flat this costume can ever be. Still, there’s an interesting contrast between the circular, four-tiered Danish skirt and the five-tiered, bustle shaped World Tour skirt.

The Phantom of The Opera (1990) | The Phantom/Erik (Charles Dance) unmasks for the first time for Christine Daae (Teri Polo).