“Its about making things out of things you have, a lot of the time.

“I just kept drawing for everything worked on.

Its such great material to work with.”

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“It was fun to put together colors.

We were into the colors of old photographs and yellows and persimmons, beautiful blues, and gravy greens.

So that makes it really fun, too.”

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Original Barbie clothing has been a big influence on the show.

I also love peoples homemade Barbie clothing from the 60s.

Theres some Lady Bunny in the show, too!”

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“I made the hobo out of all this stuff I found.

“They had a big sale and it was right aroundStrangers with Candytime.

The stuff I got from them, they had this really old stuff for nothing.

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I filled a bag with like, tattered tuxedo jackets from the 1900s.

From out of that bag came the hobo.”

“A lot of times with Amy… shell just give you one sentence and you go from there.

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Thats all she would say,” Farrell admits.

She said, ‘Oh, shes a rich lady.’

Thats the only direction.”

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… and her pantsuit evolution rivals Hillary Clinton’s

“She was so much fun to dress.

Ive already started working on clothes for her [for season 2],” Farrell says of Hogg.

“We were [initially] thinking pastel power skirt suits, and then we hit upon pantsuits.

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I saw a place that had a few really cool, colored 70s pantsuits.

And when you put these cool, colorful pantsuits over that body, it just clicked.”

She goes to a K-Mart and comes out with this great outfit…

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I never told Cole or Amy that, but that was my secret influence for Chassie!

The white bag, too!"

She definitely came from trying some actual vintage things we had.

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“That wasnt something I made.

That was something Amy brought in…. it fit Cole like a glove.

That was a magical moment!

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There was no padding involved, thats just his shape!”

“I feel like she does end up being there a little bit in the regional wine lady.

She wears the same boots and caps and fringe jeans and stuff.”

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It was developed from the idea of her being a little girl who likes to dress up.

She became a fabric version of paper doll clothes.

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