A/N: Thanks for this, online brother! Onward!
Suited for Success: Deleted Scene 1: The Art Of Making Grand Galloping Gala Dresses With Rarity! (feat. Goofy's Narrator from the "How To" cartoons!)
*Well, the wait is finally over! It's time for the moment everypony's been waiting for! You've waited a long time for this just the same as everypony else has! But now, the time has finally come! It's time...for Rarity to make a start with the dresses for The Grand Galloping Gala! Hmm? What's that? Oh, I'm sorry. Did you think it was time for The Grand Galloping Gala already? Heh. Hate to break it to you, but we've still got quite a few more days or weeks...or months to go before the big night finally happens for real. And besides, dressmaking can be something fun and exciting to look forward to as well...well, if you're Rarity anyway. Speaking of which, let's watch the maste...uh...mistress at work, shall we?*
[Rarity]
Thread by thread, stitching it together!
Twilight's dress, cutting out the pattern snip by snip.
Making sure the fabric folds nicely.
It's the perfect color and SO hip!
Always gotta keep in mind my pacing.
Making sure the clothes' correctly facing.
I'm stitching Twilight's dress.
Yard by yard, fussing on the details.
Jewel neckline, don't you know a stitch in time saves nine?
Make her something perfect to inspire,
Even though she hates formal attire.
Gotta mind those intimate details,
Even though she's more concerned with sales.
It's Applejack's new dress!
Dressmaking's easy. For Pinkie Pie, something pink.
For Sunrise Blossom, something with flowers.
For Fluttershy, something breezy.
Blend, color and form, do you think it looks cheesy?
Narrator: (watching Rarity closely as she continues singing her song) Hmm. Seems like this song is going to take quite a while to finish. Maybe it's best we don't disturb her right now. (Cuts back to outside Carousel Boutique) Yes, anyway, this could be the home of anypony in Ponyville if they chose to have a boutique as their home. But it just so happens to belong to Ponyville's most popular dressmaker of all time. Rarity. The Element of Generosity...well, most of the time anyway. The pony who has a superb talent and habit of dressmaking. Ah, The Art of Making Dresses. Must be a pretty fun job for her if it's worth singing about. For those who don't know, a dressmaker is a person, or in this case, a pony, that makes clothing such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns. Now, it may seem a little odd that ponies would go to all this trouble to make and/or wear dresses or any other type of clothing in general because...well, they're ponies. But I guess when it comes to places like Canterlot, I suppose you've got to wear something smart or pretty to avoid any heckling from others sometimes. Speaking of which, clothing can be made from all sorts of things like textiles, animal skin, or other thin sheets of materials put together. Some clothing can be gender-specific and can serve many purposes like protection from the elements of nature or insulating against hot or cold conditions. No one really knows precisely WHEN clothing was first developed, but if one was to look that up on Wikipedia, it would probably say something along the lines of about...42,000–72,000 years ago. Probably more or less.
*We then cut to Carousel Boutique one week later. The sun is just beginning to rise into the air. A rooster somewhere from either Sweet Apple Acres or Fluttershy's cottage does it's early morning wake up call. The birds fly out of their nests and sing their beautiful dawn chorus. Everypony is waking up from their good night's sleep. These are the signs that show that it's the beginning of another beautiful day in Equestria.*
Narrator: Well, here we are one week later. Hopefully, those dresses will be ready for all to see by now. Now, we managed to get a glimpse on how people, or ponies like Rarity, make dresses right up close whilst she was busy singing, but what's say we go inside and get some kind of inside scoop from the dressmaker herself? Come on.
*We now cut to inside Rarity's bedroom where Rarity herself is wide awake bright and early, ready to start the day like she normally would on any other day. And...oh, wait a minute. Scratch that. It looks like she's still in her bed sleeping. Maybe perhaps, we got here a little TOO early.*
Narrator: Ah, here she is. Good morning, Miss Rarity. And how are we on this fine day toda...(a snore from Rarity interrupts him)...oh. Oh, goodness me. She's still in bed, fast asleep. (Pauses) Well, this was...uh...quite unexpected. You'd think Rarity of all ponies would be up and about this time of morning. But it looks like I was proven wrong. Hmm. Now, how to wake her up? (Has a think) I've got it. (Clears his throat) I say, Miss Rarity? If I could maybe spare just a quick little moment with you.
Rarity: (sits up half awake/half asleep with a snort) Huh? Wha-? (Does a yawn) Dreadfully sorry, sir. But we're closed on weekends. Please, come back some other time. (Lies back down and continues her rather unladylike snoring)
Narrator: (clears his throat again a little more impatiently) Miss Rarity.
Rarity: (snores) Yes…yes…I'd love to have more caramel chocolate ice cream…
Narrator: (sighs) This is Goofy all over again. (Clears his throat once more) I say, young lady...WAKE UP!
Rarity: (wakes up with a fright almost immediately) AGH! I'M UP! I'M UP! I'M...(begins losing her balance)...WHOA! (Falls out of bed and lands face first on the floor) Oof! Ouch!
Narrator: (winces) Ooh. That looked like it hurt. Um...are you...alright down there, Miss Rarity?
Rarity: (gets back up and takes off her sleep-mask) Alright, "buddy", there had better be a GOOD reason for waking me up THIS early in the morning when I could be back in my bed, sleeping. I...huh? (Looks all around the room) Now, that's odd. There's nopony here. But I'm sure I heard SOMETHING wake me up.
Narrator: Ah. Um...that may have been me. (Nervous laugh) My apologies.
Rarity: (freaks out) EEK! (Jumps back into her bed and hides underneath the covers) I-i-is s-s-someone there?! You're not a ghost, are you?!
Narrator: "A ghost ", you say? (Chuckles) Oh no. Of course not. Well, I will admit that you can't really see me the same as I can see you. That's pretty much the one downside of living your life as a disembodied voice.
Rarity: (slowly comes out of her hiding place) A...disembodied voice?
Narrator: Oh, sorry. Where are my manners? I should properly introduce myself, shouldn't I? The name's John. John McLeish. But a lot of people mostly refer to me as "The Narrator", so you can just call me that instead if you'd like.
(Actually, John McLeish died in 1968. So, Corey Burton took over as the voice as Goofy's narrator around the time the House of Mouse cartoons were being made. And he does a pretty good job at sounding just like John McLeish used to sound too. One would think it was STILL him. But it's not.)
Rarity: (a little uncertain at first) A...n-narrator? You mean like...a narrator of a story? Or a narrator from some..."cartoon" or "movie" as they call it? Or...what?
Narrator: Actually, you guessed right the second time. Though, I wasn't just a narrator of ANY cartoon back then. (Pauses) Although, I did provide the voice of the narrator at the very beginning of Dumbo. But I was mostly famous for being the narrator of all those Goofy cartoon shorts from many years ago.
Rarity: (gets out of her bed safely this time) Who's..."Goofy"?
Narrator: (suddenly confused) What? "Who's Goofy"? You mean you've never heard of him?
Rarity: (shakes her head) No. I can't really say that I have.
Narrator: You mean to tell me that you haven't seen ANY of the cartoons him and me made together over the years? Don't you ponies have a collection of VHSes or DVDs or something? Or even a TV?
Rarity: Well, I do keep a television somewhere downstairs for my Sweetie Belle to watch whenever I invite her over to stay with me a few nights. Can't really say that I've taken any time to watch it myself yet as I'm far too busy with my career as a dressmaker to be watching that sort of thing. I'm not exactly the type of pony around here that would keep a whole collection of fillyhood shows and movies on DVDs like Twilight Sparkle or Sunrise Blossom do. Now, if you'll forgive me for asking this question, Mr. Narrator, what exactly brings you here in my abode at THIS time in the morning?
Narrator: Well...
Rarity: I mean, I'll admit that I DO have to be up a little earlier than I usually would be out and about so I can show my friends my newly made Gala dresses when they eventually get here, but still...
Narrator: Well, if I'm being perfectly honest with you here, Miss Rarity, even though honesty is supposed to be Applejack's element, to tell you the truth, I'm...bored.
Rarity: Bored? How?
Narrator: Well, Goofy hasn't really been doing anything recently that involves things that I used to teach him how to do as much as he used to the past years and decades we made cartoons together to show our audience. The last short we did together back in 2007 was about how to hook up his very own home theatre. Since then, he's been busy doing other things with his friends and...well, I've been really desperate for something to do or for things to go back to the way they used to be. That's why I came all the way here.
Rarity: Wait, back up there! An audience?! There's an AUDIENCE here?! (Starts to freak out) HAVE THEY BEEN WATCHING ME SLEEP?!
Narrator: Well, maybe only for a little bit. But anyway, yes. This is indeed an audience here. Can't you see these cameras?
Rarity: (looks all around the room again) Cameras?! What cameras?! You're FILMING all of this?!
Narrator: These cameras, my dear. (Shows her a camera looking down at her from the ceiling) Did you not know yet that there are cameras hidden all over Ponyville and inside most ponies' homes?
Rarity: (feeling uncertain about things again) Uh...isn't that like...an invasion of privacy? Also, how did any of us not notice all this at all?
Narrator: Pinkie notices them. A LOT. And...I wouldn't exactly say it's an INVASION of privacy. I mean, how else do you think people in studios make movies and cartoons? Or even TV shows?
Rarity: (tries to think) I-I don't know that! How DO they do that?
Narrator: They simply just set up cameras everywhere people go, take the footage to the studios once they're done filming everything, and presto, they have a cartoon made!
Rarity: (trying to take in what's been said) I-I never even knew all that.
(Fun-fact for Dede42! Did you know that during production of Season 9, Hasbro also made some short little videos about the characters being interviewed and that one of them had Twilight reveal that there ARE cameras set up almost EVERYWHERE in Equestria filming all sorts of miscellaneous things just like in our fanfics? Check the videos out on MD. Tanzim's Youtube channel to find out for yourself.)
Narrator: Anyway, like I said, I've been missing all the things Goofy and I used to do together and because of that, I thought I'd try and visit other people in other worlds and see if I was possible if I could try and do the same things I did with Goofy, but with them instead. Hence why I'm here.
Rarity: Oh, I see. Well, I actually already finished making all my new dresses for The Grand Galloping Gala. And I do already know how to make dresses without someone telling me what to do and how to do it.
Narrator: That's okay, Miss Rarity. You can SHOW me what your newly made Gala dresses look like instead. And we can still talk about how they were made or what type of dresses they are or what kind of things were used to make them.
Rarity: Now, that's a good idea, Mr. Narrator. But...(touches her face and gets embarrassed) oh, heavens! I must look like a FRIGHT right now! I always do every time I wake up first thing in the mornings! Just give me a few moments, dear. I simply can't start the day without making sure I stay fabulous at all times! (Rushes off to find her shower)
Narrator: But of course, my dear, Rarity. Take all the time you need.
Spongebob Squarepants Narrator With The French Accent: One lengthy shower later...
Rarity: (now looks like her lovely self) Ta daa! Are you still there, Mr. Narrator?
Narrator: Of course I am, now shall we discuss the dresses you have made for your friends to wear at the Grand Galloping Gala?
Rarity: Of course, let's go downstairs and I will show you around. Eh, is that even possible?
Narrator: Thanks to the cameras, that will be quite easy, Miss Rarity.
Rarity: Oh good.
Rarity (enters her inspiration room) This is where I come up with the designs for all of my designs.
Narrator: Ah yes, the Inspiration room, take in all the kinds of fabrics, designs, the sewing equipment, and mannequins to put the gowns on while assembling them.
Rarity: You are quite good at this narrating business.
Narrator: Thank you.
Rarity: (gestures to seven mannequins that already have the completed dresses on them) As you can see here, these are the dresses for my friends.
Narrator: Yes, and what kind of dresses have you made for your friends? I sure with each of their different personalities, it was quite a challenge.
Rarity: (laughs a little) It can be a bit of a challenge, but those are the best kinds, and I thrive on challenges that involves making wonderful clothes for others, especially for my friends. (she gestures to the mannequin with that had a silk dress that went from dark blue to pale blue) This is Twilight's dress, which is a ball gown with a star design in silver with shoes and accessories to match.
Narrator: Ah, so it will be a fitted bodice that comes in at the waist and then flares out to a full, floor-length skirt with lots of volume.
Rarity: Exactly, and dear Sunrise's dress is the same, only hers has suns and roses instead of stars. (And she points to the beautiful dress.)
Narrator: And I'm sure that they both will love the dresses when they get to see them in a short while. And what of your other friends?
Rarity: For Applejack, I updated her farm duds, as she calls them, to be more fitted for the Gala, and hers has a Column look to it.
Narrator: Which is a fitted bodice to a narrow, tailored look over the waist and hips, and straight to the floor. No flares, no poofs, and not as fitted as a sheath.
Rarity: Once again you are correct, Mr. Narrator. For Fluttershy, her gown has a floor-length skirt that flows across the floor.
Narrator: Ah, just like a stream or river flowing through the countryside for the animals to have fun in.
Rarity: Similar. Pinkie Pie has a mermaid look with a candy pattern to match her happy personality.
Narrator: Rarity, that has given me a craving for candy.
Rarity: That's the point, darling. Now Rainbow Dash, hers was a challenge, but I made it work and her dress is asymmetrical.
Narrator: Which means the bottom of the skirt, as well as perhaps several layers of fabric comprising the skirt, si cut on a diagonal angle.
Rarity: Exactly, and those are the dresses for my friends.
Narrator: Excuse me, Rarity, but why did Rainbow Dash act like she had no memory of the Grand Galloping Gala? Even though she has a ticket for it from Princess Celestia?
Rarity: Oh that. Well, sometimes Rainbow Dash tends to forget important things and it may have to do with the number of crashes over the years. All that crazy flying she does isn't very healthy you know.
Narrator: I have thought the same thing with all the accidents that Goofy has suffered over the years when we were doing the How to… movie shorts together. Thank you for your time for this session, Miss Rarity.
Rarity: You are quite welcome and please come around again if you desire more information about dresses.
Narrator: I will be sure to do that.
A/N: And there it is! Bye for now! R&R everyone!