- This article is about the piece of evidence in Turnabout Academy. For other pieces of evidence with the same name, see Stage Costume (disambiguation).
A stage costume was a piece of evidence in Athena Cykes's investigation into the murder of Constance Courte. The costume was a hooded cape; combined with a white frilly dress, it would resemble Lamiroir's signature look. It was made by Themis Legal Academy student Juniper Woods for her performance with Klavier Gavin of "The Guitar's Serenade" during a school festival.
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Four days before the festival, Woods left the art room and began working on the costume at 7 PM. The next day, there was a mock trial involving her and Robin Newman. In her dressing room before the trial, Woods applied fluorescent paint to the inside of the costume, intending to make the star pattern on the outside glow in the dark. She then left it on a mannequin inside-out to let the paint dry before heading to the mock trial.
Newman, a girl who was being forced by her parents to live as a boy, later came to the dressing room to look for Woods. The costume entranced her and she tried it on, mistakenly wearing it inside out, and leaving hand prints. While this made her happy, she was also deeply angered and saddened that the exercise brace she was wearing was getting in the way of her looking pretty. Just then, Myriam Scuttlebutt came in and called out to Newman, thinking she was Woods, causing Newman to flee the scene. Newman continued into the mock trial, not realizing that her hands had paint on them. A photo of the trial in the Themis Herald Extra showed the hand glowing.
Woods was later put on trial for Courte's murder, during which the hand prints were discovered on a photo of the costume. Newman claimed that the costume had fallen on top of her, but Cykes used her Mood Matrix to piece together what had really happened, eventually figuring out that she was a girl. Later, Newman thanked Cykes for revealing her true gender before a snitch could, and proceeded to take the costume's design sketch and photo from her.