I was lucky enough to get to see how they design, and make the costumes for Carnival here on St. Vincent. The process is thorough and requires a lot of tedious and often time strenuous work. There are twelve "bands" that will compete to see who has developed the best costumes. Each band can have anywhere between 300 and 1,000 people in it. The costumes are each made by hand in a kind of assembly line fashion. Each band has a theme, and the one that I visited had a show time theme. The competition is on Tuesday and will be a great thing to photograph. Here are some images from my visit to the warehouse.
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