Downton Abbey and Star Wars costume makers sewing scrubs for coronavirus medics

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Downton Abbey and Star Wars costume makers sewing scrubs for coronavirus medics
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In total, 150 costume makers have been enlisted to down tools on their usual shows and movies

Dulcie Scott, the costume designer responsible for making couture dresses for Ruth Wilson in the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman’s – which have included Batman, Outlander andMore scrubs are needed for those medical staff who have joined the frontline to help amid the pandemic, who would not normally have some of their own.

Dulcie told Reuters: ‘It went way beyond anything I could have imagined. We have the most phenomenal, world-class network of costume makers helping us.’Playing off His Dark Materials being known as HDM, the group are calling themselves Helping Dress Medics and are appealing for donations to help buy material.

Costume makers who have dressed actors from Downton Abbey to Batman are now making scrubs for medics on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic but raised over £46,000, and over 6,000 sets of scrubs being made. The group have also been given fabric by a curtain maker as well as factories which have been forced to shut by the pandemic working to cut the material.

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