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Graduate student Caitlin Kagawa designed costumes for the School of Theater, Film and Television&#039;s mainstage production of “Steel Pier.&quot; Kagawa crafted period-specific costumes that would display the socio-economic conditions of the characters in the play, which is set in 1933 during the Great Depression. (Chelesea Zhang/Daily Bruin)

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UCLA student layers historical and societal nuance in &#8220;Steel Pier&#8221; costumes

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Caitlin Kagawa created an outfit specifically designed to be soaked with water onstage. The outfit is part of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s mainstage production of the musical “Steel Pier.” The show, which opens Friday at the Freud Playhouse, takes place in 1933 during the Great Depression and tells the story of lower-class citizens competing in a dance marathon, a type of broadcast dance competition.

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UCLA student layers historical and societal nuance in “Steel Pier” costumes

By Eli Countryman

March 6, 2018 11:32 p.m.