The Dressmaker's Muse

Long time, no blog. I have been plying the needle unceasingly for the past year, too weary and drained to blog. Now that things have settl...

Long time, no blog. I blame those crazy days of summer, which are anything but lazy around here. Summer is prime wedding season, and I do l...

You are staging Peter Pan or some other show featuring pirates. Captain Hook is a pirate, and everyone knows what he looks like.  But wh...

More often than not, I design and make period and theatrical costumes as well as wedding and formal wear. In a departure from this, I recen...

Yesterday I was called upon to create a last minute costume for a last minute understudy in a production of 42 nd Street. The actress n...

Take time to play. In a society teeming with entertainment options, this might sound like a strange thing to say. The entertainment j...

On stage and screen, actors transform into characters from another time and place. Take, for example, a show like Downton Abbey, or a movi...