The time has come to dress a performer up and furnish the show with various stage sets.
But how to make all these things be splendidly looking? After all, on the ring, as well as in the theatre, under the searchlight, the most exquisite and expensive suit may look primitive or repel the spectators not only from the performer but also from the entire show. Is it possible to create a masterpiece not spending thousands of dollars to make it? Professional stage designers and costumers say YES!

Neither material may create so convincing image of beggarly rags except noble velvet.    The most expressive material to create snow coverage is White smooth woollen cloth.          To decorate stage sets in exquisite rococo, you can use a Metal Sleeve.	If a rough aniline stencil is placed over the fine silk drawing then a suit made of this fabric will look from the ring or stage as a Gobelin of fantastic beauty. Neither material may create so convincing image of beggarly rags except noble velvet. It is necessary only to powder its surface with light tone slightly and to add lace fragments of various length and colour on the garb's edge. Look at common rough linen of flax. Such natural burlap as it would seem may shine much more radiant than brocade and satin if various sorts of drawn-work are placed on its area with shining rags and beads inserted in them. Rosko Glame is a two-sided film with black, golden and silver metal strips; it allows to produce various effects when used. When lightened with a stage lamp with dark ultramarine filter the material turns deep dark-blue horizon with little shining metal points. Depending on the light intensity, the material may vary in a wide range of colours, from light blue, dark red, bright green, strong violet, etc., the fantasies are unlimited. This is a splendid material to create illusionist and aerial acts, as any brackets made of thin rope or fishing-line became invisible on its background. Do you need 'grass' to decorate stage sets or props? It is very easy. Sackcloth is put on the base, and every other threads in it is extracted, a next row is placed every other 15 cm, and so on, and then necessary colours and tones are made by means of spray paints or light. The most expressive material to create snow coverage is White smooth woollen cloth. It must be only slightly illuminated with bluish light. But what to do with sophisticated circus props? And this question is answered too. Take a two-sided sticking tape and wrap or cover the necessary part of the props with this tape. Then strew all this with dry wooden shaving and make colour on it with white spray paint. Durable and cheap fabric Pavilon has unlimited number of expressive qualities. It is perceptive to light more intensively than any white surface; although it is heavy, it is as transparent as tulle, and its silver colour makes it looking like steel in necessary cases. If transparent, plastic material Polycarbonate, is heated up with a soldering lamp and deformed to form a necessary shape, for example, a statue, the structure becomes so rigid that no metal reinforcement is needed. As a result, the material losses its transparency partly, but just this allows an item to perceive light better. And if bronze and silver tones are put over the statue with spray paint, then this figure will look like metal one even at near distance. But it weighs much less. Sacking absorbs and soaks light, but Linen reflects it. On the basis of this texture opposition fine colour and tone solution of the stage sets may be created by means of searchlights; impression may be that there is a deep colour, although nothing is painted. To decorate stage sets in exquisite rococo, you can use a Metal Sleeve. This is a structural material, and it works excellently being lightened with searchlights.
In the conclusion we can give only one advice - use of the experts.
	In the text were used some materials of Russian "The Stage" magazine. Archive: Make-up from Circus.