[SML] Muslin Flat Oddity

[Dougherty, Jim]

On 2/2/16 Steven Hood wrote:

>Another way to test is the old costume trick of flame-test. If you take a
>lighter to it, and it shricks back at all like a synthetic rope would,
>then
>there's more than cotton in there. Cotton should go to black ash right
>quick.

Just checking, is it traditional to do this with the costume on the actor?
Yet another reason why one should never mess with costumers (along with
³accidentally forgotten pins² and ³undisclosed costume alterations in the
smaller direction²).

- Jim Dougherty
ATD, Middlebury College Theatre Dept
Supporter of Costumers Everywhere