Fetish : Fashion, Sex, and Power

Clothes of the Ancient World (Dress Sense)

Lysistrata

Lysistrata

The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens

Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity

Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation

Women in Ancient Greece

Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome

  Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Clouds, the Birds, Lysistrata, the Frogs

The Phallus: Sacred Symbol of Male Creative Power

A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis

Women's Work : The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Body Decoration : A World Survey of Body Art Puppetry of the Penis: The Ancient Australian Art of Genital Origami

Costumes of the Greeks and Romans

The Body Art Book : A Complete, Illustrated Guide to Tattoos, Piercings, and Other Body Modifications

Body Bizarre Body Beautiful Ancient Greek Costumes Paper Dolls

 

adding ovaries and a uterus to the back.

Quick easy breast pads designed by Trista

We build the male chorus penises based on the instructions found in the Spring 2001 issue of the Costume Research Journal

We find that the larger, longer penises we want for our show sag a bit with this system, so we alter the rigging slightly as shown below

This works splendidly.  

 The base for the head of dick is built of 1" foam and quilt batting:

A base for a testicle is made of 3/4" foam, and stuffed with nylon netting to prevent collapse:

the girls in the shop love Dick's costume.

Lorraine attaches the pubic hair.

wigs for the female chorus. 

Airbrushing Dick and Jane with a solution of water, acrylic glaze and maroon acrylic paint:

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