Pat spent about two days reaching and planning her design for Snow White's costume. She started with studying the iconic image of the princess as seen in Disney's animated and live action movies.

Stephanie Dattellas, BTC's Artistic Director and choreographer of Snow White, discussed her plans for the character with Nurnberger. Dattellas expressed that she didn't want to copy the cartoon version too closely as the ballet would be based off of the Grimm's Fairy Tale.

From these findings and discussions, Nurnberger was inspired to create the costume in a late Medieval, early-Tudor era style. She extrapolated the designs in the illustrations to create her own design.

Nurnberger noticed that many of the illustrations portray Snow White dressed in white with primary colors (red, yellow and blue), especially red. She decided to include all three into her design. Pictured left is a rendering of her costume design.

Pat began to create the costume by cutting, folding, and ironing fabric pieces to create double piping. Double piping acts like a decorative hem commonly found on dresses and skirts.

In order to make the double piping, Pat took two pieces of yellow and blue fabric that had gone through the step 1 process, and sewed them together.

Next, Pat began to create the bodice, or the part of the costume that wraps around the dancer's torso.

In order to give performance costumes body, strength, and durability, the bodices are flatlined, or lined with a thick material on the inside. Pat flatlined the costume using a pink print.

The double piping pieces made in steps 1 & 2 were added to the edges of the bodice. The yellow fabric was cut 2X thicker than the blue fabric so that it could be seen on the outermost edge.

Cutting and sewing the double piping to the tabs.

Pressing the tabs flat.

The stomacher, or the front of the bodice that covers the dancer's front portion of the torso, was designed with red ribbon appliques.

The stomacher and bodice were pinned and then sewn together.

The tabs from steps 6 & 7 were pinned and sewed onto the bottom of the bodice.

In order to secure the bodice to the dancer, a zipper was added to the back.

Lastly, sleeves designed for the character's look were added to the bodice.

Some more embellishments were created for the front of the bodice including rosettes made from the same ribbon used on the stomacher.

The rosettes were cut and sewn and then added to the front of the bodice.

A petticoat and overlay skirt were created separately. The overlay includes two full circles of fabric to give the skirt more volume, which will be even more apparent when moving with the dancer. 

For added regality and dramatic effect, a removable collar was added to the neck of the bodice.