SHED THE SHAG SILENT AUCTION
Welcome to our Shed the Shag Silent Auction, where you will have a chance to bid on the spectacular items created by our costume shop students and staff and modeled by our faculty, staff, and special guests in a Fashion Show for the Ages on April 20.
See all the clothes in action:
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Duration
This Silent Auction began at 5 p.m. on April 20 and closes on April 27 at midnight. All bids MUST be received by midnight on April 27 to be valid.
To place a bid
If you registered IN PERSON at the Fashion Show: Please continue to use the bidder number you received that day. To place a bid, please email us (click here) and include:
1. your bidder number
2. the title of the item(s) you are bidding on
3. the bid amount(s)
You may send us bids for multiple items in the same email.
If you did not register at the fashion show: To place a bid, please email us (click here) and include:
1. your full name, email, address, and phone number
2. the title of the item(s) you are bidding on
3. the bid amount(s)
When we acknowledge receipt of your email, we will include a bidder number. Please use it for all subsequent bids.
You may send us bids for multiple items in the same email.
Winning Bids
So that you may make an informed bid, new high bids for each item will be posted daily.
The winning bid for each item will be the highest offer received by midnight on April 27. The winners for each item will be contacted on Monday, April 29, via email and asked to make arrangement to pay by May 6. If items are not claimed, they will be offered to the next-highest bidder. Once payment is received, delivery of the item will be arranged.
Buy It Now
Most items have a "Buy It Now" option. If you would like to Buy It Now, please email us. In case of multiple Buy It Now requests, the first person to contact us (as determined by email timestamp) will get the item.
Questions?
Email us.
Allergic to Orange Shag?
Take a Claritin and bid anyway! But if that doesn't work for you, please consider making a donation:
Donate online
Shed the Shag Silent Auction Items
Click on the name of each item to see a photo and information about the item, including current high bids. If someone has decided to Buy It Now, the item will be listed as no longer on sale.
Introducing the Velour VIPs
The Chair
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Description: Run things like a boss in the suit that started it all. This famous outfit, made of the Rand seat velour with tasteful accents of shag carpet, features a long duster coat perfect for dramatic entrances, and a plumed hat to maximize your swashbuckling. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
La Vie En Rand
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Description: This French-inspired avant-garde melding of a classic Chanel suit with the likes of Erté gives off an aura of power and will make anyone wearing it feel like a Goddess. |
Current High Bid: |
Orange Tempest
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Description: Inspired by Miranda in Julie Taymor's Tempest, one of Professor Lewis' favorite and infamous American Theatre Makers. Unlike Spiderman, designer Jimi has made sure that Megan has all of the support she would ever need in order to soar! Jimi was inspired by the architecture of the Fine Arts Center in this angular masterpiece. |
Current High Bid: SOLD |
Randi L'Orange
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Description: Made with hot glue and a dream, much like the rest of this show! |
Current High Bid: $0 |
The Season in Shag
Machinal Shag
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Description: Express your extensial angst in this adaptation of our Machinal costume. |
Current High Bid: |
Orange Violet
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Description: Sing your heart out in this cover version of our singing heroine's costume from Violet, the musical. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Shaggy Suitors
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Description: From Harley Erdman's fabulous adaptation of Ana Caro's 17th c play, Count Partinuples, comes a Kristen Jensen creation that mirrors the design from the purple corset in Suitors. Watch out, or she'll cast a spell on you! |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Venus in Shag
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Description: If you loved our production of Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus, you might like this Rand-ified version of her costume. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Rand-ee Paree
Shaggy Chapeau
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Description: Be ready for spring, summer and tech in a jaunty Rand carpet hat and couture bell bottoms, perfect for a stroll down the Champs-Elysees… or Presidents Drive. |
Current High Bid: |
Tres Chic
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Description: We can make smashin' fashion out of anything. To wit, this dress, which is lovingly crafted from curtains, orange chiffon, and velour accents to stay true to the Rand theme. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Swimming in Style
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Description: The whole family can go swimming in style with this 1940s inspired ensemble featuring a bikini top and bottom, as well as a cover-up. Also included — fun animal towels for the junior members of the swimming party. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
The Parisian Dogwalker
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Description: This playfully bouyant skirt, an original design, is paired with edgy spiked collars for walker and pooch. Perfect for an afternoon walk in Paris. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
The Fuzzy Scholars
The Typical Professor
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Description: Argyle, a sports coat, glasses and a bow tie. These are all the old-fashioned accessories we associate with a professor, right? Not like this, we didn't — shag carpet and velour seat covers turns this old-fashioned look into something for the fashionably daring. |
Current High Bid: |
Watteau Fabulous Ruffle
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Description: This ensemble offers a stylish orange update to Watteau's timeless Pierrot costume, first created in the 18th century. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Marta the Drag-Fine
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Description: Style yourself like Spanish nobility in this delightful costume based on the Department of Theater's 2009 production of Marta the Divine. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Othello's Tailcoat
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Description: An homage to faculty member and actor Gil McCauley's role as Othello in UMass 2003 production of the play, this design was inspired by Victorian and Romantic era elements. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Won't Get Fooled Again
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Description: Rock it out in Orange Style. Oh behave, baby! Isn't he shag-a-delic! That coat gives new meaning to SHAG! And those pants. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey are on the phone to us RIGHT NOW to order their own. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Safety Dance
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Description: Be prepared for any hammer- or nail-related emergency with this stylish bandolier and overalls combo. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Shaggy Chap
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Description: Sometimes puns fail us, as is the case with this snazzy safety-conscious outfit. Be prepared for any workshop occasion with this fabulous welding apron/chaps combo in Rand orange velour. Yes, you just read that correctly. Comes with shag and velour safety accessories. |
Current High Bid: |
Fantasies a l'Orange
Game of Velour Chairs
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Description: Cersei is a badass babe who runs things behind the throne — kinda like our administrative assistant, Bethany. Don't cross her, you may get a papercut. If you ask real nice, though, she might let you bid on this fabulous Lannister ensemble. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
The Rand Fairies
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Description: These fairy costumes are enchanted indeed — the transform the velour and shag into something truly remarkable. Six of these delightful sets are available, consisting of a bodice, skirt, and accessories. Top sixers bidders will be considered winners. |
Current High Bids (for 6 costumes): |
The Rand Shepherddess
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Description: When it comes to steering lost, confused, helpless lambs through the wild scary forest of paperwork, there's no one like our general manager Willow Cohen. You can steal some of her shepherding mojo with this fabulous Rand Shepherdess outfit, inspired by 18th century designs but given a shag-eriffic modern twist with 1970s shag and a bright color pallet. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Shag-erella
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Description: A mermaid-styled dress with orange fringe to give it flair —if this isn't the prettiest thing you've ever seen that was made out of orange velour seat covers, we don't know what is. Cinderella is jealous. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Mod Shag
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Description: Megan Draper called. She wants this dress. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
The Fifinator
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Description: It is the rare individual who has his or her act together the way our production manager, Julie Fife, does. If you can't be her, though, at least you can aspire with this super-hero costume, complete with essential Fife accessory, the candy basket. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Celebration of Shag
The Belly Rander
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Description: Do you belly dance? Do you wish you did? Then you need to own this belly dancer costume turned gown! Complete with shag bra piece. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
The Avant-Garde Tailcoat
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Description: The carpet is old but the look is new. Own this avant-garde take on the tailcoat today! |
Current High Bid: $0 |
The Chair, part 2
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Description: Just as our theater has changed its outfit, so has our chair. She's now a vision in purple, looking ahead to a less shagerrific, but no less awesome future. Own this emblem of the next 40 years, bedecked with accents from the new Rand. |
Current High Bid: $0 |
Donate
- Donate online.
- There are also other ways of helping students out, including support for tickets, internships, and professional development. Please contact Penny Remsen, Department Chair, at remsen@theater.umass.edu, for more information about all giving opportunities.
