Costuming Made Easy: How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-off Clothing

by Barb Rogers

Overview

Barb Rogers claims that anyone should be able to make a wonderful costume using her method of conversion costuming. With the secrets she shares in this book, you don't have to go through the work of making costumes from scratch. Instead, create fabulous, unique costumes for your needs with very little money, time or expertise. You just need an imagination and the willingness to hunt the thrift shops, garage sales and discount stores for that perfect item you can convert into a costume. To help you, this book includes over 100 costume designs with photos and diagrams for standard theatrical characters such as princes, princesses, clowns, witches, elves, medieval ladies, cowgirls and colonial men and women.In addition, this valuable text provides complete costume guides for a dozen Broadway classics, includingAnnie Get Your Gun,The King and I,Pirates of PenzanceandMy Fair Lady. If your motto is “never sew if you don't have to,” you'll love this book!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566080484
Publisher:	Meriwether Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Edition description:	1st EDITION
Pages:	117
Product dimensions:	8.57(w) x 11.09(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

A single mother for many years,Barb Rogershaunted thrift shops, rummage sales and auctions in the hope of finding old clothes that could be converted into costumes and sold. Not a seamstress, unable to use a pattern and without a sewing machine, she developed her own unique way of designing costumes. After returning to school, she completed a Bachelor's Degree from Eastern Illinois University, where she studied psychology and communications, but her first love remained costuming. Broadway Bazaar Costumes was born in one upstairs room, on the main street of Mattoon, Illinois, with 130 costumes, and Barb's burning desire to succeed. Within five years, it had grown to fifteen rooms of fun, fabulous, flamboyant costumes. A member of the National Costumers Association, Barb attended national conventions, competed with costumers from all over the U.S. and won many awards. But after ten years in business, she was brought down by a serious illness. Always the survivor and eternal optimist, but unable to continue running the shop, she leased it out and found her second love: writing. Barb, her husband Junior, and their two dogs, Sammi and Georgie, relocated to a small mountain community in Arizona, where she could heal and write. Since that time, in addition to working on her costuming books, Barb has written a murder mystery, two romance novels and two inspirational novels.