For "A Raisin In The Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry, we each had to do a rendering of on costume the eight more important characters wear as well as a sketch for the other costumes, if any that they had as well. Since I do not have the room, the sketches will go on a different board, but below are the renderings of each character. If you look closely at the bottom right-hand corners you will see the act and scene in which the rendered costume would be worn during the play.

Lena "Mama" Younger was one of the easiest to do a rendering for: a skirt, blouse, apron, and heels. This particular costume could be used as everyday wear, dress wear (without the apron), and was easier to make an older style: showing that while they had once had some money, they didn't now and Mama was wearing older style clothes to save money.

For Ruth Younger, I decided to render her cleaning clothes, rather than the normal clothes she would wear the rest of the play. This is because it allowed me to use denim more and play with how we would see her.

Travis Younger is shown in his school clothes. I did this because he is a different age than all of the others, and would give him a more youthful look. While he still has the boyish charm about him, he is also dressed in worn pants and an old top: this shows that the fabric the pants were made out of were once a different item, or possibly hemmed from Walter's own wardrobe.

Most of the time when we see Walter Younger, he is dressed in casual clothing and shows his character very well. However, I decided to render his work clothes and dress him as a chaeffuer would for the time period. This not only allows us to see a different side of Walter, but it also allows us to what he no longer wants to be.

Beneatha Younger is shown in her cleaning clothes, and the clothes that she wears when they move. I chose this particular costume to render because it shows the time period really well for her age group: overalls, saddle shows, and her hair tied back. It also gave me a chance to show her hair before she cut it and allowed it to go back to the natural state.

Joesph Asagai is dressed very casually for someone of money and you can see the difference between him and George Murchison right away. It is obvious that Joseph doesn't really want to blend in, but is trying to fit the costumes of South Chicago in the 1950s while still being true to his Nigerian culture.

George Murchison is dressed in a way that makes it obvious that he is trying to imitate the style of the white population from the 1950s. Both he and Karl Lindner are the only two in the entire play wearing a tie, and while his outfit is not identical to Lindner's it is still similar enough.

Karl Lindner is dressed as a buisness man from the 1950s would be. While he does not have a suit jacket on, or with him, it is in my mind that perhaps it is in his car or within reach if needed. The way he's dressed makes him a very obvious sore thumb, in the sense that he doesn't fit in with the neighborhood where the Youngers live, or even the Youngers themselves, despite their older clothes of style.