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"Are you ready to go jet-setting with the most glamorous group of uniformed women to ever grace the small screen? Pan Am arrives on ABC this fall, and though it&amp;#x27;s been described by some as &amp;quot;Mad Men at 30,000 feet,&amp;quot; thanks to its 1960s backdrop, we see only one prominent similarity--to-die-for costumes! We caught up with the show&amp;#x27;s costume designer, Ane Crabtree, to talk about dressing some of the most famous faces in history and where she shops to get it all done. When a show is called Pan Am and revolves around the lives of the stewardesses, you better believe the costumes--especially that iconic uniform--are essential to making it feel realistic. Ane took her lifelong obsession with vintage clothes and her experience on past series like LAX and The Sopranos and parlayed them into something truly special on the set. Here&amp;#x27;s what she had to say about it. STF: How did you get involved with the series Pan Am? Were you excited when they came calling? AC: There was a different designer for the pilot and she did an amazing job. But we re-shot half of it because we re-cast our lead, and she wasn&amp;#x27;t able to come to New York. So Tommy Schlamme, the show&amp;#x27;s director and executive producer, he really the show&amp;#x27;s big guy, and he called me up and said &amp;#x27;I&amp;#x27;m hiring you because you&amp;#x27;re an artist and a filmmaker and that&amp;#x27;s what this show needs.&amp;#x27; STF: What&amp;#x27;s the biggest difference between working on films and working on a television series? AC: Well, it&amp;#x27;s the most clich&amp;amp;eacute; answer but it really is true--TV is like a long marathon. The difference with a period piece, like this show, is that everything is either vintage or you&amp;#x27;re making it. And TV is notorious for last minute castings, so sometimes we have literally a half hour to make things happen and I have to sort of do a psychic vision of how things have to be and hope the characters get cast to that size. STF: Let&amp;#x27;s talk a little bit about the Pan Am uniform, because I know that was an essential part of creating the show&amp;#x27;s mood. Did you get to work with an actual one from the airline&amp;#x27;s archives? How did you re-create it? AC: I was mainly creating from photos and from footage, and two other really good resources--Nancy Ganis, one of our executive producers, was actually a Pan Am stewardess! And my aunt was a stewardess exactly from 1960 to 1968. She worked for a different airline, but I&amp;#x27;m using her as inspiration. I have a great photo of her in her TWA uniform, and it&amp;#x27;s black and white. I wasn&amp;#x27;t able to touch the actual uniform, but Christy, the designer before me, was lent one and took really, really good measurements. STF: How true did you guys stay to the original? Was there any room allowed for creative license? AC: I&amp;#x27;ve done a tiny bit of realigning, but for the most part it&amp;#x27;s pretty authentic. You cant really mess with the integrity of uniforms. They&amp;#x27;re designed to classically last visually and it&amp;#x27;s designed to be worn every day and still look elegant. You know, Prada was one of the first folks to say &amp;#x27;uniforms are the way to go&amp;#x27; in terms of fashion--she recognized their reliability and enduring beauty. But again, I have made some tweaks just for the uniforms to look right on film. A lot of modern bodies are different. Our lifestyles have changed, our eating habits, we&amp;#x27;re just bigger across the board, so there are adjustments that have to take place to make it look balanced for cinema. STF: I wan to get back to the allure of the uniform for a second...why is the stewardess one of those lasting images of sexiness? AC: I think part of the reason why men love women in stewardess uniforms is because you&amp;#x27;re not seeing anything, but you somehow you still want it. You don&amp;#x27;t know what you want, but it&amp;#x27;s there and it&amp;#x27;s intriguing. They were almost like stars, like glossies. It was an aspirational line of work for women, you know it was very glamorous in the 60s. They had this grace and it&amp;#x27;s unattainable. STF: Are you creating most of the pieces we see from scratch, or do you do a ton of vintage shopping? AC: I think every designer dreams of being able to make everything. It&amp;#x27;s certainly my wish for the show. But yes, we do have a load of vintage as well, and we constantly pluck from this giant pile. STF: Where does most of it come from? AC: From eBay, from costume houses, and best of all, from grandmothers. There are people who work on the show who have donated family items, who say &amp;#x27;here, this was my grandmother&amp;#x27;s, she was so stylish and I really want you guys to have it.&amp;#x27; So there&amp;#x27;s real history behind the pieces. We&amp;#x27;ve been amassing things per character. STF: Who has been the most fascinating character to dress on the show so far? AC: Dressing JFK was just, wow. We dressed two different people for two different scenes, where he doesn&amp;#x27;t have any speaking lines. We wanted to make him more ominous, so the look was incredibly important. It&amp;#x27;s a complete plot point to a story we are just finishing up now, where he gave this very famous speech in Berlin. I had three good photos of the suit he wore during the speech, and I went through tons and tons of vintage suits. I found the perfect one, and I said to casting, &amp;#x27;Who do you got?&amp;#x27; STF: So they literally found a guy to play him who could fit into the suit? CA: Yup. I found the best suit I could and then we worked backwards. STF: The 60s are having a moment in fashion again--the whole return to ladylike style and fuller skirts and a more polished look. Do you let it influence what you do on set, or are you strict in adhering to historical accuracy? AC: I like to keep the integrity of using real pieces, or things that are taken from real pieces or re-done. I really do try to stay within the period--that&amp;#x27;s my goal and my intent. Although I&amp;#x27;m very inspired by whats happening right now, especially with labels like Pringle of Scotland or Burberry or Jil Sander--all of the collections that just came out are so inspiring. i think you have to stay focused for sure and true to the period, but you have to open your blinders to the side and say &amp;#x27;life influences art.&amp;#x27; There are so many parallels in our script with the past and what&amp;#x27;s happening right now, that I like to keep an open eye to fashion and style. STF: There have been inevitable comparisons between Pan Am and Mad Men. I have to ask, do you watch? And do the costumes inspire you? AC: I&amp;#x27;ve never watched Mad Men, but its not because of the show, it&amp;#x27;s because I never watch TV. But I do know Janie Bryant, I&amp;#x27;ve known her for a thousand years and I think shes a gem and she&amp;#x27;s brilliant at what she does. The thing is, I&amp;#x27;m using the same reference points, like Grace Kelly from a Hitchcock film. Other than that, I just think hmmm, that show has had a heck of a lot of success, I hope ours does too! My inspiration comes more from people that I knew back in that time. My mother had an impeccable wardrobe--she had everything made in Hong Kong. My aunt who worked as a stewardess was so glamorous. I look at Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn films. They&amp;#x27;re just classic and so inspiring and out of this world. I also have a full set of LIFE Magazines from January to December 1963. I want the show to be absolutely fashionable because it can be. I want to make sure that we&amp;#x27;re really, really clearly in the moment of 1963. I&amp;#x27;m sort of taken aback by how much im enamored of it. It&amp;#x27;s the whole mystique factor. There was something more intriguing and interesting about that whole time. Pan Am premieres Sunday, September 25 at 10pm on ABC. 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