1930's Fashion

As our devised piece is set in 1930's a lot of research needed to be collected on the sorts of clothes people wore back then. 

Men - As you can see below that suits were quite popular back in the 1930's. It is also very clear that there are no skinny or tight fitting suits, all the trousers are pleated and quite baggy and straight, even though two of these photos aren't in colour it almost seems the suited are a navy blue or beige colour. 
Another thing about the fashion is the how you can work with it, for our devised piece the gang members can all have similar suits but how they wear them is personal, some could have the jacket on or off, with a waistcoat or without and they could also have braces, this created quite a few looks just from one style of suit, this could also help the fact that we have a years time lapse during the performance so the story doesn't seem like one week, having  a suit and being able to deconstruct certain elements of it will almost create a whole new looks. the men's fashion will be a lot easier to source as there are loads of suits around, the only issue will be finding suits that aren't slim fitting as this is the current fashion for the present year.
   

                                                                       

Women- Below I have three photos of different styles of clothing our girl can wear. one issue we have with the our female character is she works in a speakeasy bar as a waitress but when she meets Fin, they have a dance that involves a lot of lifts, she would need to wear something easy to move in but also in keeping with the 1930's style, I feel if she wore something like the first photo it would be very easy for her to move and yet still looks feminine and elegant. In the story we have a years time lapse, this means we may need various costumes and hair styles for each of our characters.
One problem with the women's fashion of the 1930's is then trying to source is and put it together.
As you can see just like the men the trousers the woman is wearing isn't tight fitting at all and is extremely flared, the blouse is also quite baggy and free flowing giving the look a very soft look. The last two photos are more girly outfits as they are dresses which is what we want our female character to be, the last photo is something I feel the character would wear as its quite simple and I don't think it would be that hard to source or even make from scratch, the second photo however seems a very complex design and maybe more hard to source but is probably something out character wouldn't really wear if she was only a waitress.