Because the play is happening in Salieri’s own mind so if periods of clothing merge together, become over-exaggerated in silhouette or color, or start to show other oddly nonspecific details it is due to his own decomposing memory is now inventing and blurring what was once a reality. The only thing that appears real and consistent is the Venticelli because although they are gossips they are the only way Salieri finds his “facts” as he obsesses over the brightly colored Mozart and Constanze. The costume story of this show is that of a mad oil painter trying to repaint images he no longer sees clearly.