Annie Frost from ‘Chase’

In the excellent opening scene of NBC’s Chase, premiering Monday, Sept. 20, a tough U.S. Marshal pursues a suspect on a long, hard chase, into a park, up stairs, through traffic, into the middle of stampeding cattle, a rodeo and, finally, a tunnel.

This unfolds in Texas, and is the sort of scene destined to end with someone getting decked. Annie Frost (Kelli Giddish) does a nice job of kicking the bad guy’s butt, and she never could have nabbed him had she been tottering about in six-inch heels and a pencil skirt.

“She is always truly ready to catch the bad guy,” says Taneia Lednicky, the show’s costume designer. “It is really important to me. She would never do anything to inhibit her ability to get the guy.”

Annie is beautiful and undoubtedly female, but without the stereotypical sexual overtones TV shows insist on. And from this pared-down, yet very potent character, Lednicky says, she hopes girls take a message.

“I hope my daughter will know as she grows up, you don’t have to trade femininity for power,” she says. “You can have both.”

Annie looks great. She always wears pants, and Lednicky has her in jeans from Saks, Nordstrom and 7 for All Mankind.

She selects jeans based on how active the scene is, Lednicky says.

“When Kelli went to Houston, she met with some marshals,” Lednicky says. “I had thought when a pair of jeans gets old looking you can’t wear them anymore. The marshals told her you dress for what you are going into.”

“It’s interesting no one pair of jeans does everything just like in any woman’s wardrobe,” she says.

And just like in anyone else’s wardrobe, a jacket makes any outfit more professional.

“The marshals have to be sturdy enough to go out and chase someone, and with the jacket, you can pay respects to some victim’s family,” she says.

“She has one jacket that is the softest leather ever,” Lednicky says of a Balenciaga jacket.
She also wears a Blur leather jacket and a short bomber from J. Crew.

Lednicky will shop anywhere from the Gap to the exclusive Dallas department store Stanley Korshak. She also buys at Neiman Marcus, Barneys and online, including Evergreen, whose tops Lednicky dyes.

“I get out my trusty Rit and we alter the color,” she says.

Much comes down to footwear, though. Consider that Annie chases felons, at one point even jumping off a bridge, into a river in pursuit. The boots must be durable, and hers are custom-made by Stephanie Ferguson.

“I am especially pleased to say that I found a female boot maker,” Lednicky says. “The female force is running strong behind and in front of the camera.”

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