User blog comment:Belle pullman/Costume Design groups and generations/@comment-25225146-20141012093121/@comment-3182821-20141012100158

Without wanting to offend your national sensibilities... :P  I don't think the German costumes are a family of their own. The initial Hamburg costumes were Broadway designs, and then they developed and grew into their own look - but it's still firmly rooted in the Broadway ancestry. And then the London influences came across - Berlin certainly used London costumes for Tugger, Munkustrap and Misto! :P

The Tent tour and the recent UK Tour have costumes from all over Europe over the past 15 years - Dane is a swing, and so has all secondhand unitards, and there's Dutch costumes in there, older German...

It was Dusseldorf that used the very very lightly painted costumes wasn't it? Somewhat airbrushed looking? Interesting, but I'm not really a fan!

I wonder how much can be tracked down to whether the costumes were literally made by the same people or made locally to the original designs...