One of the characters in Oh Crappy Day is a pregnant waitress named Renee. The actress who played this part, Rachel Marie Howell, wasn’t really pregnant — but people who’ve watched her scene (during post-production) have repeatedly asked whether she was.
That’s a great testament to the skill and creativity of our wardrobe supervisor, Ruth Bryan. She created the pregnancy suit for Rachel, along with a waitress outfit that’s straining at the seams.
Ruth has a lot of experience designing and sewing costumes, having worked for the North Carolina Opera and other theatrical groups. What’s more, she’s extremely meticulous: she wanted to know how many months along Renee was, so she could add or remove the exact right amount of stuffing.
When you design clothing for a film production, you have to do more than make the clothes fit the performers; you have to make them fit the characters. And Ruth did that beautifully!