Gabrielle's season 6 costume

Finally I got the chance to take some new photos on my Gabrielle’s season 6 hero costume worn by Renée O’Connor in season 6. 

The costume includes mostly set used pieces: red velvet top, red velvet skirt, orange undershorts, boots, sai straps and necklace. The silver cuffs were purchased from the same company that provided the ones seen in the series. The belt is made of dark brown leather and silver screen matched buckles.

The sai in the mannequin hand is a electroplated prop version and the ones in the boots are foam stunt sais.

 The first appearance of this wardrobe was in “Heart of darkness” and the last one was in “A friend in need part I”

Gabrielle's costume & sai hero prop.

 

 Gabrielle's sai close-up.

Other close-ups.

Gabrielle's silver metal cuffs.

  

Back & boots with sai straps and foam sais.

Gabrielle's hero sai

A recent addition to my collection: Gabrielle’s screen-used sai used by Gabrielle played by Renée O’Connor during season 5 & 6. Probably one of the rarest props I have ever seen.

Front and back

This sai is an electroplated hero version made of hard resin with a metal rod inside as an armature reinforcement. 

The shinny surface is electroplated, a chemical process of plating is used for many years to deposit a metallic coating to a surface to have a light-weight weapon with a metallic shine for close-ups scenes. Just the hero version of the sai can be seen the distressed marks on the blade clearly.

It is pretty interesting to compare the differences bewteen my Gabrielle's stunt sais made of soft foam for fighting scenes to prevent foand the detailed prop. The sai comes with COA from It’s A Wrap! auction in 2001.

Photos for reference:

Gabrielle Hero S3&4 costume Photoshoot

Today I bring a few photos from a last year photo shoot that I had not posted yet about the Gabrielle Hero costume worn by Renée O'Connor herself during season 3 and 4. The first appearance of this wardrobe was in the episode "Dirty Half Dozen" from season 3 and stopped appearing on screen after episode "Devi" from season 4. However, there was a small appearance of this costume worn Hope played by Renée in the episode "Motherhood". 

This costume includes the green olive bodice top or BGSB (Bilious Green Sports Bra) worn by Gabrielle, the rustic fabric skirt, the leather belt and the fur purse seen in the episodes from season 2 & 3 mostly. The staff is a limited edition replica distributed by Creation Entertainment. The pair of boots are screenused amazon ones.