I need to find a pop up hat like Matthew Broderick uses in the Music Man. Does anyone know where I can find one or how I can make one. I am not adverse to...
We are doing a burlesque production of Comedy of Errors. Does anyone know where I can find trick suspenders that allow pants to drop and then come back up or...
I was wondering if anyone has had luck attaching shoes to stilts. We are using the kind you use for dry walling and they need to appear to have a pair of work...
It isn't a good idea to mess around with the bottoms of plasterers stilts. The pantographic mechanism can be compromised. You can also wind up with a...
Hi, Just found this and thought it would be good for our files--great Moroccan robes among other finds. Paula http://www.shukronline.com/home.html -- ...
Paula Davis-Larson
pdavilar@...
Dec 6, 2005 11:52 pm
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Last year I tea dyed some nylon lace and have a bunch left over and would now like to use it in it's original white color. I've just been soaking it in some...
Hello all, Kent State University School of Theatre and Dance is in need of a full time cutter from 2/27/05 - 4/14/05. The show opens April 21st. We are...
I've done several shoes for plasterers' stilts and that's what i've done each time--make the shoe into a sort of "spat" that fits over the stilt bottom (or,...
I am teaching a 1/2 semester course on distressing costumes next semester in conjunction with our production of Urinetown. The students seem to be very...
Dear Group, I have a costume history question. There is a painting entitled ³Boy with Guitar² (1786) by Ramon Bayeu. What is the green decoration on the...
Gail Trottier
trottier@...
Dec 6, 2005 11:55 pm
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I may make 1 or 2 men's duster coats for a motoring look for 1905 but don't want to draft a pattern. Anyone used the Folkwear (male #137 of female =Model T...
A discussion today in a technology class has bred a question that couldn't be answered with a web search. Do half scale men's dress forms, similar to the...
This semester has been very busy for me, and as I think many of us do, I began to dream about a job outside of theatre. My collegue decided she would become...
Amanda - we found a new product (well, new to us, a few years ago) called Schmere. It comes in a stick that looks like a deodrant stick, but in distressing...
Kim Monk
kmonk@...
Dec 7, 2005 1:00 pm
3375
I made a panier very similar to that one on the farthingales website. I do like it, and it seems to hold its own. I have yet to make a dress to go over...
We just built several panniers for a dance concert, and we used the Farthingales pattern. I ordered the kit for the prototype, then just purchased the...
I went the other way around--I worked in the fashion industry with my certificate in fashion but really wanted to do costume design for theatre. I went back...
Paula Davis-Larson
pdavilar@...
Dec 8, 2005 12:00 am
3378
Hello, It's been a long time since I've written on the listserve, but this question intrigued me--and since I am someone who did leave full time costume...
laura-thudiumzieglows...
Dec 8, 2005 12:00 am
3379
In a message dated 12/7/2005 1:01:26 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, costumeinfo@yahoogroups.com writes: Last year I tea dyed some nylon lace and have a bunch...
Cheryldee@...
Dec 8, 2005 12:00 am
3380
In a message dated 12/7/2005 1:01:26 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, costumeinfo@yahoogroups.com writes: What jobs have you heard of former costume designers/...
Cheryldee@...
Dec 8, 2005 12:01 am
3381
We used PVC for several recently...worked great and comes in several sizes....
Dear Fellow Costumers, Golden West College in Huntington Beach, CA. is looking for another full time instructor in Theater. This is a tenure track position....
To Leisl Seitz, We have both a 1/2 size male form and a 1/2 size female form here at SMU. They've been here from before I came in 1990. However, they are...
One of my mentors from college took a job with an entertainment law firm when she retired. She is now a consultant on contract negotiations and such in Las ...
There are so many different fields in costume it is unreal. I think since the internet, we are all connecting with people in the industry and doing things we...
Try some of the products on the market for cleaning false teeth. I have used these on discolored antique lace and it worked just fine. Don't know about tea...
Betty Blyholder
bblyhol@...
Dec 8, 2005 10:22 pm
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I'm still in applications for Grad School, so I've not had a lot of design under my belt, but after graduation I got a job working for the Camp Snoopy Theme...
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