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Costume
Recycling
| Ever
wondered what happened to some of the T-Bag costumes?
Raymond
Childe, the costume designer for the show was given a very tight
budget to work on. This meant that he would often have to find ways
of stretching his budget, meaning that some of the costumes were
re-used, or, sadly, re-cut for other things. If you watch the show
carefully, you can often see whole costumes that have been re-used,
or sometimes bits that have been cannibalised for parts of later
costumes. This page shows some of the costumes in their various
incarnations during the run of the series.
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| T-Bag's
Pearl Dress Earrings |
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These
lovely earrings were part of Tabatha's original costume, and were
part of the set that went with the choker.

They were also used with the "Lady in Red" costume from
episode 2 of "Pearls".

Once
the Pearl Dress was finished with, however, they were re-used in
"Sunstones of Montezuma" for T-Bag's "Josephine"
dress, and I think that they remained with that dress. |
| Long
John Sylvia's outfit |
This
costume made regular appearances throughout the show. It was first
seen in episode 7 of "Strikes Again" worn by Jan Hunt.

It made its second appearance in "Bounces Back" as Mrs.
Merry's pirate disguise. Jan Hunt was also in this episode, but
didn't wear the costume this time!

It's
third appearance was hanging up in episode 9 of "Revenge"
as part of the costumes of Will Wagadagger's troupe of actors.
It's
final appearance was as Rum Barbara's costume in "Rings of
Olympus".

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| Tallulah
Bag's Black Star Dress Cloak |
The
original cloak was worn by Elizabeth Estensen in episode 10 of
"Revenge", where Tallulah is ultimately destroyed.

Only the collar of this cloak was seen again in episode 10 of
"Sunstones" as part of Georgina Hale's cloak, where
Tabatha is destroyed by Kit Bag.

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| Tallulah
Bag's Black Star Dress |
This
dress made two obvious appearances. The first was in "Turn
On To T-Bag" episode 10.

The
second was in "Revenge" episode 10. For the latter appearance,
the a black star cloak was added, and the tiara that was used
with it originally was omitted in favour of the one that went
with the purple version of this dress.

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| Tallulah
Bag's Black Star Dress Tiara |
This
tiara was seen originally in episode 10 of "Turn on to T-Bag"
with the Black Star Dress.

It
was later seen the same year in "T-Bag's Christmas Cracker"
in the very last shot, where T-Bag has been turned into the fairy
on the top of the Christmas Tree. The Christmas special would
have been filmed in the same run as "Turn on to T-Bag"
(I recall Kellie Bright and John Hasler mentioning that they would
film the series and the special in the summer the year before
they were broadcast), so whether the tiara was designed for the
fairy costume or the Black Star Dress is a mystery.

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| Tallulah
Bag's Fairy Costume |
This
costume was used in the last shot of "Christmas Cracker".

It was later seen again in "Christmas Ding-Dong" worn
at the climax of the opera sequence by Maria.

The
dress's earrings were given a new lease of life as those to acompany
Tallulah's Purple Star Dress. I think the necklace remained with
the dress.
 
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| Vanity
Bag's Cloak |
This
was originally part of Vanity Bag's outfit in "Ding-Dong".

It was later seen in episode 3 of "Rings" where T-Bag
is trying to solve the puzzle in the locket with Grizzly McMoose.

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| Tallulah
Bag's Red Night Dress |
The
night dress worn by Tallulah from "Turn on to T-Bag"
right the way through to "Revenge of the T-Set" was
a red satin affair with a gold polka-dot embroidered tulle overlay
with ruffled neckline and cuffs.

The
overlay was removed, it's sleeves were removed, the cuffs were
made into shoulder ruffles and hey-presto! We have Tabatha's dressing
gown which went with her purple nightie in all of her series.

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| High
T-Lady's Bracelet |
The
High T-Lady sported two bracets with large gold flowers on them,
onto which the drapes of her robe were attached.

These
were later seen on the wrists of Tabatha in episode 1 of "Rings"
as she attempts to steal the rings from Athena disguised as a
goddess.

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