FlamMan Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Looks like The Cadets will be wearing their classic (2013) unis - at least, for now. https://twitter.com/thecadets/status/610232363730214912 Best uni in this activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlamMan Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 The top priority for drum corps costume designers is androgyny. Design the male costume to resemble a skirt, at all costs. The key is to hide the skirt under the thinnest guise of normalcy. So, take a standard piece of men's clothing and mutate it to look like a skirt or dress. For example, a wrap-around tunic that looks like a skirt. A topcoat that wraps around the full waist, even in front-- skirt. A loin cloth that goes half way down the leg-- skirt. A shirt that goes to the mid thigh to look like-- a skirt. Anything, anything that looks like a skirt or dress. Anything to help conjure the image of androgyny. Number one. The second top-most priority for drum corps costume designers is to have all corps members wear the tightest fitting and clingiest lycra possible, exposing every detail of men's loins. The third priority for drum corps designers is to develop costumes for a portfolio to show in their Cirque du Soleil interview. The more bizarre and fanciful, the better, ostrich feathers and twisted aluminum-- whether it fits the design of the overall production of the corps or not. Absolutely ridiculous. I agree 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Freedman Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I agree 100%. Every part of his post objected to the expressive nature of the modern uniforms in this particular performing art in which the contestants are judged 40% on expression. So it's not surprising they'd be expressive and flamboyant. Sorry the activity is so ... what's the word ... GAY, but I'm pretty sure they still wear macho uniforms in football (oops - tight fitting crotches!). Maybe civil war reenactment would be better for him/her. Funny fact: Someone I know insists that drum corps' real purpose is to indoctrinate young people into a military mindset, and to stamp out their individual personalities. So I guess if the idiocy balances out everything must be OK, right? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlamMan Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Every part of his post objected to the expressive nature of the modern uniforms in this particular performing art in which the contestants are judged 40% on expression. So it's not surprising they'd be expressive and flamboyant. Sorry the activity is so ... what's the word ... GAY, but I'm pretty sure they still wear macho uniforms in football (oops - tight fitting crotches!). Maybe civil war reenactment would be better for him/her. Funny fact: Someone I know insists that drum corps' real purpose is to indoctrinate young people into a military mindset, and to stamp out their individual personalities. So I guess if the idiocy balances out everything must be OK, right? I'm a fan of PR's color guard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skevinp Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 The top priority for drum corps costume designers is androgyny. Design the male costume to resemble a skirt, at all costs. The key is to hide the skirt under the thinnest guise of normalcy. So, take a standard piece of men's clothing and mutate it to look like a skirt or dress. For example, a wrap-around tunic that looks like a skirt. A topcoat that wraps around the full waist, even in front-- skirt. A loin cloth that goes half way down the leg-- skirt. A shirt that goes to the mid thigh to look like-- a skirt. Anything, anything that looks like a skirt or dress. Anything to help conjure the image of androgyny. Number one. The second top-most priority for drum corps costume designers is to have all corps members wear the tightest fitting and clingiest lycra possible, exposing every detail of men's loins. The third priority for drum corps designers is to develop costumes for a portfolio to show in their Cirque du Soleil interview. The more bizarre and fanciful, the better, ostrich feathers and twisted aluminum-- whether it fits the design of the overall production of the corps or not. Absolutely ridiculous. Your top priority and second priority seem to be at odds with each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 I'm a fan of PR's color guard. Ah the man likes his all female colorguard. Surprise! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincoln Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) I agree. We should return to a better time, like the Renaissance, when men knew how to express their masculinity. Codpieces all around! Or wigs and high heels (which were originally designed for men). Edited June 15, 2015 by Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Seriously? What a derogatory remark. Doesn't surprise me. Not everyone is like this, but DCP has its share of intolerant old farts. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancidrolla Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 Ah the man likes his all female colorguard. Surprise! Can we please not get the uniform thread closed? Thanks.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musicman1084 Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) Nevermind... not worth it. Edited June 15, 2015 by Musicman1084 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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