McGrew Studios

Specialty Costumes, Production Design and Fabrication for the Creative Industries

Specialty Design, Fabrication & Production for the Creative Industries

Steampunk

Giant Armadillo: Custom Film Prop

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What has four legs, armor, and is bigger than a Volkswagen? A GIANT armadillo custom prop!

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Custom Steampunk Tailoring

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This is the gorgeous hair and makeup genius, Amber Pearson in custom steampunk attire.

McGrew Studios’ custom corset, Zouave jacket, tap pants, skirt and detachable bustle. Made specifically for her.

2014.

Corset is custom patterned and fit in brocade and moire’ fabric over corset coutil, with 24 steel stays and lacing stays up the center back

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on display, at Salt Lake City’s Absinthe Parlour Salon

Big Custom Steampunk Guns

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One-of-a-kind steampunk weapon by our own Crit Killen. This fantastic piece won the “best elements” category in the Crown of Cogs Fashion Show at 2016’s Salt City Steamfest. Congrats, Crit!

Modeled during the show by our own Hraefn Wulfson.

Perhaps you’d like to have a version of your own?

Call us: 801-596-2210.

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Custom steampunk medals created and awarded by Fashion Show Coordinator Eden Lustgarden.

 

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Hraefn, gunslinging at the Exhibit of Victorian and Edwardian dresses and shoes provided for Steamfest by Salt Lake Community College Fashion Institute‘s Archival Collections.

Custom Tutus: Combat Ready

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On stage, live at Area 51, 2007. Photo: Kelly Ashkettle.

On stage, live at Area 51, 2007
Combat Tutus!

Rent this tutu set here.

An unusual project from the archives, one for which a script did not exist prior to the costumes being built.

Jen built the combat tutus very specifically to produce a 2007 specialty performance at Club Area 51 in Salt Lake City. Julie McDaniel was the choreographer extraordinaire. A lovely group of dancers generously donated their grace and talents.

Fun fact for those who may not know: A ‘tutu’ is not a frilly skirt. A tutu is a two-piece garment that combines a fitted bodice with a frilled brief. Both are usually held together with hooks and are sometimes even sewn together.

The clever “Jewelry Massacres” are by artist Justina Parsons-Bernstein, who designed each to accompany a specific tutu.

The tutus and jewelry massacre ensembles have been presented in several gallery exhibits at Universe City in Ogden, Utah and are now part of the McGrews’ permanent collection.  

We can make one just for you in camouflage or other fabric of your choice. We can also make you a skirt instead of a tutu bottom (that has a frilled brief attached). Give us a call at 801-596-2210.