Photos of Rocky's shorts
Last Updated: 10/4/2008
How We Found These:
Back in 1996 or thereabouts, the Rocky Horror shorts showed up in a Christie's catalog. A couple of years later, the first report trickled in from a fan - the shorts were on display in a Hard Rock Cafe in Myrtle Beach, SC! And so they were.
Dawn Loden (nee Henline) sent me a batch of photos from the Hard Rock, and her cast for many years maintained a website. It's down, now, so I'm presenting a selection of her photos. They'll be supplemented later with mine - I concentrated on things like the hem, etc. for construction details. For a photo of me looking quite excited to finally see these, check here.
The Belasco Yellow Gauntlet
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Yellow sequin gauntlet, laid out flat. There is only a little of the black feather trim still attached.
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Closeup of the feather trim. It appears to have been the type of trim sold on cording.
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The fingerloop. Made of twisted thread. Note the stitching that shows the sequin patterning on the "right" side of the gauntlet.
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Buttons. The loop you see is a button loop, with gold metallic thread over a core. It might have been elastic once; it isn't now.
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Closeup of the button loop.
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The sequins. Cup sequins in a meandering pattern.
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Inside elastic detail. I thought this was incredibly cool - there's elastic, fastened in a couple of locations to the inside of the gauntlet, to keep it from sliding down. The people I know in theater sort of sniffed at me and said "of course," so I guess this is fairly common. Note the word "Tim" written on the elastic - yes, this was our boy's.
The Belasco Red and Fishnet Gauntlets
