#closing the bodice
Bodice closure: The Wedding bodice
- Las Vegas (back-closed with zipper)
- Restaged US Tour (back-closed with zipper)
- Broadway (back-closed with zipper)
- Paris/World Tour (back-closed with zipper)
- West End (back-closed with hooks and bars)
- West End revival (back-closed with hooks and bars)
- Copenhagen (back-closed with hooks and bars)
- Original West End (front-closed with hooks and eyes)
- Tokyo (back-closed with hooks and bars, plus snap buttons)
- Sao Paulo/Hamburg (back-closed with hooks and bars)
(note: many also do an additional hook and eye in the neck, as seen in photo 4. The bow usually close with velcro or snap buttons)
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Bodice closure: The Wishing bodice
- Broadway (back-closed with zipper)
- US Tour (back-closed with zipper)
- US Tour (back-closed with zipper)
- Restaged US Tour, UK dress (back-closed with zipper)
- World Tour (back-closed with hooks and bars, and snap buttons)
- World Tour (back-closed with hooks and bars)
- West End (back-closed with hooks and bars, and velcro)
- West End (back-closed with hooks and bars, and velcro)
- Copenhagen (back-closed with hooks and bars, and velcro)
- West End (back-closed with hooks and bars, and velcro)
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Bodice closure: The Wishing bodice
- Broadway (back-closed with zipper)
- Las Vegas (back-closed with zipper)
- US Tour (back-closed with zipper)
- Restaged US Tour / UK dress (back-closed with zipper)
- Newer West End (back-closed with hooks and bars)
- Newer West End (same)
- Hamburg (front-closed with hooks and bars, plus snap buttons)
- Original West End (front-closed with hooks and eyes)
- World Tour (front-closed with hooks and bars, plus snap buttons)
- World Tour (front-closed with hooks and bars, plus snap buttons)
(note: as far as I know, the front buttons has never been functional. They’re meant as a decorative element, illuding a buttoned faux vest)
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Bodice closure: The Star Princess
- World Tour (hooks and eyes)
- Broadway (zipper)
- Broadway (zipper)
- Tokyo (hooks and bars)
- Hamburg (hooks and eyes)
- Oberhausen (hooks and eyes) (same as 5)
- Hamburg (hooks and eyes + bars)
- West End (hooks and bars)
- West End (hooks and bars)
- Copenhagen (hooks and bars + thread loops)
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Bodice closure: The Rooftop costume
- Las Vegas (zipper)
- West End (hooks and bars, velcro)
- Broadway (zipper)
- Restaged US Tour (zipper)
- Broadway (zipper)
- West End (hooks and bars)
- West End (hooks and bars)
- Oberhausen (hooks and bars)
- Stockholm/Copenhagen (hooks and bars)
- World Tour (hooks and bars)
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Bodice closure: The Serafimo Pageboy/Maid shirt
- Australian Tour (looks like snap buttons)
- Broadway (snap buttons)
- Broadway (snap buttons)
- Broadway (snap buttons)
- Stockholm (snap buttons plus hooks and bars)
- Stockholm (snap buttons)
- Tokyo (not sure, just added it for the bow reference)
- Moscow (snap button)
- West End (snap buttons)
- Copenhagen (snap buttons)
(note: like the dressing gown there may be more than one closing patent in use, but the Stockholm one is the only one where I found it documented in a photo)
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Bodice closure: The dressing gown
- Hamburg (a total of hook and bar, tied belt and velcro)
- Hamburg (same)
- Hamburg (same)
- West End (tie, sometimes also hook and bar or snap button)
- World Tour (snap button and tie)
- World Tour (same)
- US (hook and bar, with pre-tied belt)
- US (same)
- Copenhagen (tied belt)
- Original West End (tied belt)
(note: many do a combination of 2-3 different closing methods, usually ties, velcro, snap buttons, and/or hook and bar/thread loop. It’s pretty much impossible to document all three in one garment - exception being the Hamburg one from my personal collection)
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Bodice closure: The Hannibal Slavegirl
- ROW 1: US(zipper in front as well as…)
- ROW 2: US(lacing in the back)
- ROW 3: Germany(hooks and eyes) / Germany (hooks and bars)
- ROW 4: World Tour (hooks and eyes)
- ROW 5: Elder and newer UK (hooks and eyes)
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