Anovos Star Trek TOS Tunics

[AshGL1914]

Me too. I don't know what I'm going to do when the window for the Monster Maroons opens.

John

p.s. Oh, and Capt. April, as for the green wrap...

 

[Captain Robert April]

Tease.

 

[AshGL1914]

Officialy...I know nothing. Unofficialy? That's something else.

John

 

[AshGL1914]

I love this photo manipulation that was posted on Anovos' facebook page last week. I love really love the command look for some reason. I guess I'm biased.

John

 

[Captain Robert April]

If you wanna make some ladies happy, make the version with pants.

 

[T'Bonz]

Yeah, miniskirts are for young ladies. Those of us who are middle-aged are better off with a longer skirt, or with slacks.

 

[AshGL1914]

You know, that's worth passing along to Anovos. http://www.facebook.com/ANOVOS

John

 

[AshGL1914]

Alright everybody...looks like March it is then!

This was posted this morning at http://www.anovos.com/ !

John

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The Captain's Chair thread on the Yuku forum is the awesomest prop thread on the Internet. Totally amazing, and you can see the whole progress of research as it happened.

I know the guy that ANOVOS actually consulted with before making final decisions on the material for the TOS tunics, and saw some of the material. They're making every effort to get this right.

 

[AshGL1914]

I know...finalllly QUALITY ( good night Rubies!), LICENSED, TOS uniform replicas that people can buy without getting ripped off.

John

 

[plynch]

The big ads w/ Kirk, Spock and Uhura show velour tops, while the company is re-producing the 3rd season polys.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Interesting point about the "poly-ribbed neck" - the original collars from the first couple of years were constructed from a "spring weave" knit. Did they do a ribbed version eventually?

 

[Captain Robert April]

Definitely by the second season, possibly sometime in the mid to late first season.

 

[AshGL1914]

Actually, quoting James Cawley from an old post at one of the costuming boards...

Early in the first season they simply used a standard cotton rib trim, this was eventually replaced by the springweave which was in use
all the way thru the third season. However, Bill Theiss discovered that its life expectancy was not long. After several cleanings the small elastic threads inside the springweave disintegrate, leaving you with a very ill fitted collar that no longer hugs the neck. Bill started to incorporate a nylon rib trim to replace the springweave. This was used in several third season episodes alongside the springweave and then the show was canceled. When Bill returned to do Phase II, he only used the nylon rib trim. So, no matter what you choose, you are accurate, I use both Springweave (which I personally hate!) and nylon.
Best,
James Cawley

So with that in mind, here is a picture of Kirk in SPOCK'S BRAIN with a springweave collar...

and a picture from WHOM GODS DESTROY in which Kirk is wearing the nylon rib trim.

Both tunics are third season DN, but with both versions of the collar fabric.

John

p.s. By the way, current manufactured springweave has modern elastics in it, so while looking the same as original springweave, it holds it's elasticity better. Here's a close-up of the springweave in the collar of my 1st/2nd season tunic. I hope that whenever Anovos gets around to 1st & 2nd season tunics they go with springweave.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

So poly ribbing wasn't used at all for the first two years (much less "definitely") - but since they're doing the third season version of the tunics with the doubleknit then poly ribbing is screen accurate.

 

[AshGL1914]

Yup. As for the cotton rib trim that James mentioned was in use in the first couple of episodes (that finally used the uniforms with black collars that is), the cotton was augmented with drawstrings to keep them tight around the neck! Crazy huh?

Picture from the STARFLEET 1701st Board, http://starfleet1701st.yuku.com/reply/7946/elastic-in-1st-season-collars#reply-7946

John

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Well, the collars were pretty ugly in the first two or three episodes filmed - check out Sulu in "The Corbomite Manuever." They were having shrinkage problems with the shirt material and probably with the collars as well.

 

[AshGL1914]

Yeah, Spock and Sulu's "ascots" were both pretty bad. And in Corbomite, you can see the WHITE, and HUGE "hidden zipper" on Sulu's tunic.

John

 

[Captain Robert April]

So poly ribbing wasn't used at all for the first two years (much less "definitely") - but since they're doing the third season version of the tunics with the doubleknit then poly ribbing is screen accurate.

I was just referring to the ribbing, not whether or not the material was poly.

 

[AshGL1914]

So poly ribbing wasn't used at all for the first two years (much less "definitely") - but since they're doing the third season version of the tunics with the doubleknit then poly ribbing is screen accurate.

I was just referring to the ribbing, not whether or not the material was poly.

Oh I don't think the material composition was in question, just which style was used and when; ribbed, or springweave. That's all.

John