Last and not least, we will be having a look at the third and final building of Siam Costumes. By now you should have a gist of what to expect,and as promised we will have a look into our stock room unfortunately due to privacy policies we hold with our clients, we won't be showing you anything that we are working on currently. Shall we begin?
We shall skip the ground floor, as it's the other side of the workshop which I mostly covered on the last post. As we make our way to the second floor here is a brief sample of our zip stock, the reason why they are placed here is because these are the most commonly used zips, also if you notice we have Saddam Hussein looking over them for safe keeping.
Here is some of our tens of thousand buttons, bought from all over Asia mainly being Hong Kong. Almost every production we have worked on consist of at least one of these buttons.
Here is half of our military insignias, mainly consisting of Nazi WW2 insignias from Inglorious Basterds. As well as a load of braiding, and trimmings which comes in handy more often than not, especially for light entertainment productions.
Some more buttons and buckles, this half is made up of wooden and plastic buttons.
The firs room holds thousands of fabric samples , from stores all around Asia but once again mainly Hong Kong and China. Sorry about the mess I swear there was a time when it was all neatly organised, and those boxes ,yes you guessed correctly those are filled with hundreds more fabric samples.
The reason why we have a room dedicated to these store samples, is because before they were placed in boxes and Darryl tends to remind us " I hate having things in boxes, you just can never find what you are looking for" which is a fair point. Having the samples placed on the wall, in fabric categories I.e wools and Velvets…allows us and the clients to easily navigate our way through and find the suitable fabric.
Don't worry Its not what It looks like, Siam Costumes aren't secretly part of a racist cult. These are arm bands from which movie? Seabiscuit? Seriously thats your answer, I've already mentioned the film one or two times, "Inglorious Basterds".
Oops sorry to interrupt, didn't know this kind of party was going on up here. Ill leave you guys to it.
This room is packed with more fabric, mainly the heavy rolled ones. Also a lot of our light entertainment such as fabric used for Theme Parks, is later stored within this room.
Here is a collection of our unique ties, thats right i said unique, we have hundreds of plain black and white ties stored away in the cupboard. However these beautiful ties are very unique in each design.They have also previously been used in several 1930-50s productions.
Onto the last room of the tour, and what room is more worthy of an encore than the stock room. This room is where we store a lot of our samples and prototypes of previous and upcoming productions.
You may remember this from a previous post. Its The Hollywood Letter characters from Universal Studios Singapore, Hollywood dreams parade.
One of our several prototypes from Tarantino's classic remake Inglorious Basterds.
A prototype from an upcoming WW2 production, so remember where you saw it first.
A sample from Opera Australia Carmen.
Any super hero fans? You may recognise this costume although the scenes they were worn in were very dark for obvious dramatic reasons, they are the vest's that the ninjas wore in this years The Wolverine.
The curtains are closing, and I'm afraid this is the official end of the tour. It was pleasure showing you around and giving you an insight into our workshop but I'm afraid we have a lot of work to get on with. Thank you and Good Bye.
At least some one is pleased to be leaving the workshop.
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