Last week we were assigned a costume design project for Shakespear's play Romeo and Juliet. I knew that I wanted to set the play during a significant conflict, so I immediately considered the idea of setting it during a war. I decided that the 1960s in Vietnam would be a reasonable period for the setting of my project. I decided to focus on the Vietnam War as my conflict, making Juliet being Vietnamese, and Romeo being American. The conflict I chose works for my project since the Montagues and the Capulets are in opposition. This setting would fit the project because I could easily set up the Capulets and Montagues as two parties who disagreed with one another (because of the war). Additionally, I believe that this setting makes it easy to use costumes to distinguish a visual difference between the two families. I think that I could accomplish this by designing the Capulet's clothing based on Vietnamese fashion from the time. I considered the possibility of putting Romeo's friends in U.S. soldier costumes. Since I knew I would be designing the outfits, I wanted to choose an era and place where I could get a substantial amount of photos for reference, and I also clothing that personally excited me. I was inspired considerably by images I came across while I was researching Vietnamese fashion from the 60s, which compelled me, even more, to set the play during this period. I look forward to sketching out ideas based on the fascinating images from my research.
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