Saturday, March 18, 2017

Design Considerations For Majorette Uniforms

By Sarah Long


A school marching band is incomplete without its complement of costumed majorettes. And the thing today is for having some the best dressed band members performing to the beat of popular tunes on street parades. Mostly, these are composed of young people, and their tastes have influenced the kinds of costumes used today.

The many choices available for costume design will always be amazing, and the designers or costume makers need to make great ensembles most of the time. Majorette uniforms can be a bit pricey, since they have to be specially made with charm and dazzle in mind, but their effect will be worth the price. They are made for high stepping it in the middle of colorful main streets.

Ideally, they are found at the front of the band, and even as the male members usually do the music, those who perform in time to eat are the visual stars of the parade. The costumes then are central to how they need to be out on the parade. The most dazzling ornaments are used, and they twinkle and shine at every step and turn.

Glittery things like sequins and gold dust often come with the show, and they are liberally sprinkled on designs for abbreviated wear over legwear like boots. They can be done with symbolism for the event being commemorated. Often, the costumes need to jibe with home teams, so that they can twirl their batons with pride for the home crowd supporting the march.

Glitter will be found anywhere, but the dress designs are always special, cut in the latest fashion, and made from sturdy materials. The team might also have a hand in designing their outfits with team designers or costume makers helping them out and providing advice or inspiration. These outfits may be symbolic of team or town history, and some teams will allow girls to keep them.

Fringes and blings are very common today, with the latter accessories changing the design specs here in creative ways. The uniforms will always feature the relevant colors or heraldic designs of teams or towns, and done in bold, solid block of color and swaths of fabric. Usually, the girls will all have fittings for their own personal uniforms.

The styles and designs, as mentioned, are amazing enough and may draw the interest of good fashion designers. These dresses are part party fashion and elegant but sexy evening wear. Most will agree that the young ladies and their costumes lend a certain formal elegance and grace to whatever event it is being commemorated.

Legwear, bottoms and tops can be accessorized by hair related implements, grand batons and other stuff. There will be hats, shakos, the batons in question, some signage perhaps and other things that pulls it all together. And much premium is given to color, the better to have the crowds interested, cheering and entirely positive about the proceedings at hand.

The team majorette is a major influence in the parades they are in, and together with their costumes, they enhance the value of bands. Uniforms need to be beautiful, fashionable, iconic and memorable. The best ones enable an otherwise ho hum town to come up to par with positivity and elan and other celebratory states of mind.




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