Robin Hood for the Playstation Generation

BBC TV show, Robin Hood. The first two seasons' costume designer was Frances Tempest.
Interview with Frances: http://www.boldoutlaw.com/robint/francestempest.html

FT: It became obvious that we had to do everything in Hungary and buy everything in Hungary. We couldn't spend money anywhere else. So we had to set up a little manufacturing studio to actually sit and churn the costumes out. And I had another little workshop set up doing all the painting and distressing and dyeing.

"I had to have another whole department -- well, three or four people -- on permanent renovation and repair duty. Although I wanted them to look worn, I didn't want them to look like scarecrows. So I had people constantly repairing and we had to have so many duplicates of every costume. I think we had something like ten outfits for Robin in the end."

"Robin's band -- I wanted then to look like eco warriors, really. The modern equivalent of the outlaw." Their outfits had to give them their own identities, but they still had to look like a group.
Robin's seude hoodie. He had a cotton version for when he fell in water or had oil poured on him, and a lightweight version.


Much, on the left, with his bandanna and sweater.
Robin in the middle, with his hoodie and the forest green color.
Below, he has a plain shirt with a scarf. Sometimes he wears a green one. He occasionally wears a vest over either one. He also wraps his arms with cloth around the sleeves.
Robin has a brown vest that has medals on the front. It shows that he's a war hero.

Here you can see his quiver going through his hood.

AWW: He also had the duster that was like a western hero, and almost like a regency cape.
FT:  It was a cross between a regency cape and Sherlock Holmes and How the West Was Won. I was trying to roll all of those sorts of things into it. Of course, it was tempered - like things always are - by practical considerations. He had to be able to get on and off his horse in it. He had to be able to fight in it. There were stuntmen, but a lot of the actors did an awful lot of their own stuntwork. So all of those practical considerations had to be uppermost.
AWW: You also had the other outfit for Guy, with the piping along the sleeves.
FT:  Yes, which was fastened with these wolf's head clips. And then he had wolves on the knuckles -- like knuckle dusters -- on the gauntlets. All I can say is that I spent a lot of time hanging about in motorbike shops in Budapest.

Guy of Gisborne, "a fantastic, sexy racing driver"
 

The Sheriff:
"I just wanted to be a dark figure and keep him as simple and sophisticated in a funny sort of a way. I mean [Keith] wanted to look like a drug dealer. That was his version of what he was playing. So we met somewhere in the middle on that."

Djaq went through the most change from season 1 to 2. In the first season she had to look boyish. Her military type jacket was very straight and square. It helped to hide her curves. In the second season, she had longer hair and they definitely showed her figure.





Marian



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