Indie films (at this level) often have very low budgets. I brought in Amy Wengreen to produce Battery Row with me. She showed me some great places up in Utah to buy wardrobe for our cast. We went to Deseret Industries which is like a Salvation Army type of store. We bought a suit, shirt and tie for $17. Used but in amazing condition. We got several things there and barely spent $50. It was lucky that I was in Utah at the time although these stores do exist all over the country.
We also bought wardrobe at some shops around Los Angeles like Wasteland and Crossroads which sell pretty cool Used stuff. Here is a photo I took of our main character's wardrobe to get a sense for how they looked in Black and White. The idea was to look vintage or different (No Target) without it always having to be vintage. It helped to have the actors in place and their sizes on hand early in the production so that whenever Amy or I were in a store and saw something we liked we knew if it would fit our characters. We didn't have the budget for a costume person so we had to deal with keeping track of everything ourselves. Tough thing by the way. The best Hat shop I found was on Melrose near La Brea in Hollywood. Hollywood Hatters....
http://www.hollywoodhatters.com/
I bought the lead character's fedora there. Very cool place with a plethora of different types of hats and they actually know how to help you where many many places do not. Save yourself some time.
Here is a lineup of our characters with their wardrobe. Again I decided to light them in the Noir style and see what they looked like in Black and white. Black and white is great because we could marry colors that wouldn't work together. All we cared about was fit, shading and textures.
More about Battery Row in the next post....
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