The Props - Convent Garden

These are the props that we used in Covent Garden.

We decided to use the bag with the pennies on it, at the last second because we wanted Alan to be a more realistic street performer and when we looked at the other street performers, they had hats or dog bowls in front of them with some money in them. As it was short notice we used what we had and that we thought that would be most suitable so we used Josh's (Alan) bag and emptied out the pennies from our pockets and put them out in front of him.

Finding the shoes were quite difficult compared to the dress, as the boy who played Alan wore size 10 male shoes. We wasn't quite sure if this meant size 10 in female shoes so we went down to our local shoe shop where the lady working told us that it would be around a 43, but that not every shoe store would have this size shoe. However we were quite lucky to find a pair in the charity shop down the road. We thought that the shoes would work quite well as they looked quite worn out and clashed with the dress, and that was exactly the kind of look were going for which was quite tacky and outrageous at the same time.

This is the necklace which we used for alan to wear, it was quite simple but it looked sweet which we thought would add a nice little feminine touch to our character.

We used this silver belt as one of the other accessories purely because it was quite large and it was clearly seen when put over the dress, but the main reason was because it was shiny and silver. This was particularly useful for us as drag queens tend to like the glitz and glamour and to be the centre of attention.

This was the neck tie we used, we used both the neck tie and the necklace because the necklace was quite small and even though you could see it we thought it would be a good idea to have something a little extra.

The dress was another item we found in a charity shop, as you can see it has a shine to it and it looks like a vintage dress left over from the 80's. The reason why we chose the dress however was because we thought that it would be perfect for our character of a drag queen, as the dress looked like his mothers and that he just took it out of her wardrobe which was similar to the look we were going for.

We also used a glamour to add a bit of glamour to our character.

We used a variety of different nail varnish colours instead of sticking to the one colour, because we wanted our character to be as exaggerated as possible. In the picture below you can see the final outcome of what his nails looked like.