Costuming Made Easy: How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-Off Clothing - Couverture souple

Rogers, Barb

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566080487 ISBN 13 : 9781566080484

Editeur : Christian Publishers LLC, 1999

Synopsis

Barb Rogers claims that anyone can make a fabulous 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 little money, time, or expertise. You need 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, including Annie Get Your Gun, The King and I, Pirates of Penzance, and My Fair Lady. If your motto is "never sew if you don't have to," you'll love this book!

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

For a time, Barb Rogers haunted 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. 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 many novels and hopes to become a published novelist but will always hold on to costuming as her first love.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Christian Publishers LLC
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566080487
• ISBN 13: 9781566080484
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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