Screen Used Undersuit?

[Darth Aloha[Admin]]

All,

 

I haven't quite found the search verbiage to find out what the actual undersuits were in the OT. I have seen reference to some dancewear for the tour suits but that's it.

 

Do we know what stormtroopers wore under the white hard stuff in the movies?

 

Aloha,

 

-Eric

[bobojuice]

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[Darth Aloha[Admin]]

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[jnnfr72[TK]]

I think wearing buckets under your armor would be painful, but maybe some troopers are into that!

[RogueTrooper[TK]]

John Mollo stated in an old interview for ANH: "We had a black all-in-one leotard for the Stormtroopers"

 

 

I put this info in the Reception Center under the undersuit part when I was updating it...... but it was somehow lost when we transferred it over from Joomla.... I will have to fix that.....

[tkrestonva[TK]]

John Mollo stated in an old interview for ANH: "We had a black all-in-one leotard for the Stormtroopers"

 

That's what I use!

 

They're also called "unitards". You can get them at a dance supply store (online or in person), although getting them in a size to fit a large man can be tricky.

[troopermaster]

I don't think they used a one piece unitard for undersuits. I think they wore a seperate black turtle neck dance top and dance leggings. The screen grabs and promo photos I have seen show they are not too tight either.

 

There is a photo out there of a trooper taking a knap at Elstree and I believe there are one or two other half dressed troopers at his side. One has a white t-shirt while wearing the black leggings and leg armour if memory serve me.

[RogueTrooper[TK]]

@ Paul, so you are saying that John Mollo is wrong??? His interview was taken back from 1976, which means that it would have been fresh at the time of filming ANH or I should say "Star Wars" and not something 20 or 30 years down the road...

[RogueTrooper[TK]]

 

 

There is a photo out there of a trooper taking a knap at Elstree and I believe there are one or two other half dressed troopers at his side. One has a white t-shirt while wearing the black leggings and leg armour if memory serve me.

 

I have seen that pic and for some reason I think that was from ESB.

[Darth Aloha[Admin]]

Here's a link with the John Mollo quote from the Making of Star Wars book.

 

-Eric

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[troopermaster]

I'm just going by the photo of the guys outside Elstree studios. They may well have used a unitard and/or seperate garments.

 

Thinking about that photo, I think the guy with the white top just has black leggings with braces - no leg armour.

[tkrestonva[TK]]

I've never seen that interview before. That was a fascinating read.

[Turrican]

On 11/25/2011 at 3:15 AM, troopermaster said:

I don't think they used a one piece unitard for undersuits. I think they wore a seperate black turtle neck dance top and dance leggings. The screen grabs and promo photos I have seen show they are not too tight either.

 

There is a photo out there of a trooper taking a knap at Elstree and I believe there are one or two other half dressed troopers at his side. One has a white t-shirt while wearing the black leggings and leg armour if memory serve me.

 

That one?

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[troopermaster]

That's only a crop of it.