Protective Padding

In 2016, I worked on Paramour, a show from Cirque du Soleil.  (I eventually took over as the wardrobe supervisor. ) During the tech process, one of the things I worked on was protective body padding for the acrobats.

This was for rib protection when the acrobat flew to a pole.  It is stretched on a garbage can, so that the stitching could be tight, yet accomodate the stretch of the spandex.

This is how the pieces looked once closed.  We did also try a pocket version.  It ultimately got scrapped.  As you can see in the next picture, the padding was too stiff and hard to wash.  I was still glad to make it, even if it didn't get thru the tech process.  Sometimes, it just happens.

My main job at that time was doing the laundry.  And there was a LOT of laundry.

Stunt Padding

In "You Cant Take It With You", there is a wrestling scene between Mr Kirby (Byron Jennings) and Boris Kolenkov (Reg Rogers).  After a while, Reg was bruising on his derriere.  After extensive searching,  I got 2 of these from Skating Safe (their sister website is Stunt Bumpers )

I then did placement of them and made pockets for pads.  The pockets were zigged on and the excess net clipped away









This is what they looked like in. On the body, you couldn't really see the padding and the bruising went away!