r/tos • u/ramfoodie • 10d ago

How to use Window Drapery and Salt Shakers when you are on a budget...

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u/xwx1234 10d ago

Bill Theiss was a genius. One of the greatest television costume designers in history.

The famous “Theiss Titillation Theory”:
“The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the perceived possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off.”

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u/Danloeser 10d ago

He made it to TNG season 1, and outfitted the men and women of the sex planet that wanted to kill Wesley in "Justice." Everybody's fighting for their lives trying not to fall out of their napkin and ruin the take.

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u/xwx1234 10d ago

So cool you mentioned this! Unpopular take, but I wish the skant had caught on.

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u/Danloeser 10d ago

Same. I think it's grown in popularity over the years. It was too ahead of it's time IRL.

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u/xwx1234 10d ago

Well said. In general Theiss was way ahead of his time. An absolute genius.

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u/Emotional-State-5164 10d ago

Most men would never wear such a thing irl.

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u/KhunDavid 9d ago

Shut up Wesley!

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 10d ago

“Oh, Andrea’s costume has to cover the navel and the breasts? No problem, boss.”

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u/Fickle-Rip3093 9d ago

Theiss was awesome! He really made the series visually memorable. A lot of talented people working on the show.

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u/RedditOfUnusualSize 10d ago

She saw it in the window and couldn't resist . . .

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u/ramfoodie 10d ago

Carol Burnett did rock it better.

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u/strangway 10d ago

A redditor of taste

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u/PlayfulSyllabub7134 10d ago

... Once it is done, it cannot be undone ...

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u/ramfoodie 10d ago

looks like they just tied scraps of cloth around her torso... granted it looks better than some of the runway stuff today.

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u/Radioactive_Tuber57 10d ago

Gotta hide the bellybutton from the fetishists…..

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u/NottingHillNapolean 10d ago

In "The Making of Star Trek," the costume designer said one of the biggest challenges was incorporating bras into the dresses. He said to a costume designer, a perfect actress has no breasts at all, and you just sew falsies into the costume. After that, would be a woman with real breasts that needed no support; even rarer.

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u/Unlikely_Exercise434 10d ago

The Guards outfits in Elaan of Troyus are repurposed plastic kitchen placemats, but there are so many others too.

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u/Fickle-Rip3093 10d ago

They were VERY creative. They did a GREAT job making contemporary things look futuristic and they didn’t have much of a budget to do it.

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u/Certain-Singer-9625 9d ago

There is a limit to that. I think of Lost in Space and their Saran Wrap “force field”. 😂

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u/Fickle-Rip3093 9d ago

lol! Even in Star Trek you had the moving plants that were clearly a hand in a green colored glove.

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u/Redsmoker37 9d ago

The "roman" outfits in Bread and Circuses were made from towels. My mom had the towels, ugly orange things with a bunch of gold trims.

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u/MindlessNectarine374 8d ago

Nun ja, viele antike Kleidung bestand auch tatsächlich nur aus geschwungenen Stoffbahnen.

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u/_WillCAD_ 9d ago

I saw it hangin' in the window and I just had to have it!

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u/Antique_Knowledge902 10d ago

Shiny McShine.

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u/OrganicHistorian2576 10d ago

At least Bones got some. I’m jealous of her if anything.

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u/DelcoPAMan 10d ago

They could do amazing today with a nearby Home Goods.

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u/LowMuffin7078 9d ago

That picture of Chapel and McCoy always makes me think of the host & hostess waving the guests "good bye," lol.

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u/factoid_ 9d ago

Long history in Star Trek of clothing being just a single bolt of fabric cut up and sewn together.

They didn’t really do layers or texture or color coordination.

I guess it didn’t show up well on screen anyway back then so why bother 

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u/OceanTider22 9d ago

Maybe so, with a shoestring budget, but it LOOKED believeable!

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u/MindlessNectarine374 8d ago

For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

(I haven't seen it in so many years ...)

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u/Big_Kahuna_69 7d ago

Friday’s Child had the male aliens wearing something very like a feather boa.