How to Clothe 6,000 Men

6:00 AM PST 11/29/2011 by Stephen Galloway , Elizabeth Snead

Veteran costumer Joanna Johnston, the descendant of a grenadier, describes her work as "a military operation. I was scared going into it."

Costume designer Joanna Johnston had a personal connection to World War I that added emotional resonance to War Horse: "I had an ancestor named George Cecil -- whom we have a painting of at home -- and he went to war in the grenadiers on horseback," says the British native. "He was 18 when he went and within six months he died."