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Uniforms are important to have
for a show. They may enhance the point you
are trying to present with your show, and they
make the choreography look clean. If you
want some individuality in the costume, make each
member wear their hair or makeup differently, or
wear different colors of the same uniform. This
will be enough of a change that they will look like
individuals, but the show will have that
uniformity and cleaner lines.
HORROR STORY #1
My name is Shelby and I am with
the Parkview Baptist Blue Extreme Colorguard in
Louisiana. This past football season, we got the
chance to perform at the state championship
halftime show at the Super Dome in New Orleans.
(Our team won by the way! 2008 state champs!)
While we were warming up behind the seats (where
the locker rooms are) and in our routine we bend
down a lot. Well I noticed that something wasn't
right with my uniform. The zipper has started to
come out of the costume! It was a one piece velvet
pant suit and the zipper went half way down my
butt! I was SOO stressed about it! My coach had
safety pinned it for me and I was praying that it
would hold! Before I know it we had taken the
field and I was careful not to bend over too far
when the time came! But to my demise I felt the
safety pins POP and I knew that it wasn't being
held together anymore! I didn't screw up the rest
of the routine TOO badly, although I did a little
bit! Anyway, nothing came flying out or anything,
but my heart was racing the entire time just
thinking that something terrible and embarrassing
like that was going to happen! Luckily nothing
did, and we all get new costumes next season
anyway, so I didn't have to get it fixed! (that
was the last performance of the year!)
HORROR STORY #2
It's the biggest football game of the season (over 500
people are there). We ordered our uniforms online and they hadn't came yet so
we were wearing our show t-shirt and black pants. I'm on rifle line and as we
did our big opening hit, the butt of my rifle caught my shirt and pulled it up.
Let's just say everyone at that football game got their money's worth.
-Mandy
Evansville, Indiana
Email me if you have any
"horror" stories about costume malfunction at
emily@colorguardcentral.com
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