I dusted off my original denim test-tutu last week and did a little work on it, mostly because I was doing a talk on denim for…
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I’m doing research for this week’s lecture on the Directoire and Empire periods, and I ran across a beautiful YouTube of an exhibit on Napoleonic…
1 CommentSo it’s official – I’ll be teaching a History of Costume I (pre-antiquity – 1700ish) class spring semester. When I started teaching, this was my…
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And by “love”, I mean “hate”, but they never admit to that in tennis. This was my kitchen ceiling. This was my little reward for two days of chiseling hideous industrial hanging-ceiling tiles off the ceiling – learning that my father was quite the active doodler, and his preferred medium was Liquid Nails…
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I try to give my Principles of Design for Apparel class a shape challenge where I ask them to look at the actual shape/aesthetic properties of an everyday item and re-interpret it as a fashion material. Last semester was coffee filters. That worked so well as to be a tough act to follow. The idea of what to do next has been troubling me for months, and actually came up (as a positive and enthusiastic discussion) during a recent interview for a benefitted position in the department. In desperation, at the dollar store 40 minutes before the lecture started, I finalized on….
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I recently had to make a pseudo-cavalier tabard-y-thing, using tissue lamé (hmmm…. reads like “lame”) for the appliques and trimmings. It wasn’t anyone’s fault, really, it just had to work with the ones that had been bought for other costumes. If you need to tame the “HELLO, I’M SHINY” factor of lamé, there’s a way…
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So I was peacefully minding my own business and enjoying my time remaining at the costume shop, steam-fluffing hat feathers with the gravity iron, and I saw this….
3 CommentsThe college put out a memo yesterday stating that employees can no longer work for multiple divisions. In other words, I can work for the…
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Take a look at the seam in this skirt from an Indian wedding that my boss turned up…
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After the fluffy-white-tutu-athon of Les Sylphides, I decided that the best way to recover from all those tutus was … to make another tutu. The logic here might be a little sticky if you are not insane obsessive crazy a costumer, but after all those long fluffy white things, I wanted to try my hand at a proper platter tutu. And, happily, a fellow costumer from one of my theaters was willing to offer up her daughter as the victim of my first attempts…
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