Um, I make an appointment with the actor or actress and we er, go to the costumiers and I usually before set up a rail of costumes of the period which aren't necessarily the colours or, or even the sizes that, that are actually required and we just dress up. Um, I just, it's just to get them used to the period and also the silhouette that they might go for because you might actually say well these proportions don't work on you because you're too short so we have to cheat it here and here, do you know what I mean so, you sort of um, starting to design on the body rather than sort of on pieces of paper so that you don't actually arrive with a drawing and say oh this is what you're wearing you know

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Ref Code: PM-83 Title: Transcript extract from an interview with Middlemarch Costume Designer, Anushia Nieradzik. p. 7. Date: 1993 Format: .png Source: ITM-7963 Transcripts of interviews with members of the cast and crew of Middlemarch (BBC/WGBH, 1994). Edited for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Educational Developments/BFI (British Film Institute) Education package Screening Middlemarch: 19th Century Novel to 90s Television. Held at BFI, London, UK. http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceArchive/110008677