All Aboard the Stripwear Bus: Inside the ‘Hustlers’ Fashion Journey

It starts in the locker room. The bright, green-and-white space in the back of Show Palace Gentlemen’s Club, in Long Island City (New York’s largest strip club, at 10,000 square feet) is, of course, where the night begins for the women who dance there, the number of which ranges anywhere from 50 to 80 on any given night. And it’s fittingly the first place in the movie “Hustlers” where one is first properly introduced to the film’s name characters — Constance Wu, Cardi B, Lizzo (Jennifer Lopez comes later). “One of the first things you see is the Destiny character [played by Wu] lead from getting ready right here, and she walks out and you see the club through her eyes,” says Mitchell Travers, the movie’s costume designer, back in the locker room at Show Palace a few days after its release. “And it was always really important to our filmmakers to witness the club for the first time through one of the women’s eyes. Because of course we have so many images of what it’s like to be a man in a chair. But there are very, very few images about what it’s like to be the woman who’s getting

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