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A Practical Guide to Working in Theatre Backstage
Live theatre is an exciting, challenging profession — but how is professional theatre actually made? What are the roles and what does each person do? Which pathways lead into the profession? What skills…
Broadway Costumes On A Budget - Big-Time Ideas for Amateur Producers
Your high school, college and community theatre versions of Broadway shows can have all the glitz, glitter and pizzazz of the New York variety And this book tells you how It lists 100 famous musicals and…
Corsets and Crinolines
This discussion of the female form and fashion over the last four hundred years includes structural drawings and patterns along with contemporary quotations, an index and a glossary The first of Miss Waugh’s…
Costume Design - Techniques of Modern Masters
Eighteen interviews with top costume designers partnered with original sketches reveal why they are at the top of their profession. Top tips and trade secrets revealed in a behind-the-scenes look at the…
Costume Since 1945 - Couture & Street Style and Anti-fashion
The post-war years saw an upheaval in social, personal and professional life that resulted in a large variety of fashions in a comparatively short period From the austerity of the utility years to the…
Costumes & Accessories - Props and Stage Illusions Made Easy
Transform common people into superheroes, movie stars, knights, witches - whatever illusion you want to create Creative costuming is all in the details - one garment can take on many totally different…
Costuming Made Easy - How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-Off Clothing
Enter the fascinating world of conversion costuming! Make your own theatrical costumes for less than a day’s rental price and make them your way without any conventional sewing using patterns . Included…
Erte’s Fashion Designs - 218 Illustrations from ‘Harper’s Bazar’ - 1918-1932
Splendid selection of 210 black-and-white inventions from legendary designer’s productions for Harper’s Bazar, 1918–32
Erte’s Theatrical Costumes In Full Colour
One of the theatre’s greatest costume designers who treated his work as fine art. A beautiful book deserving the attention of costume designers and students of theatre
Hair & Wigs for the Stage Step-by-Step
This book aims to provide solutions to a number of challenges that actors, make-up designers and wardrobe departments face when dealing with hair and wigs for stage productions The text is divided into…
How to Dress Dancers
This well illustrated book shows how to start making costumes for dancers. The author looks at different styles, cuts and materials that can be used, and shows how costume sketches can be used, and shows…
Pattern Cutting for Men’s Costume
This is a practical guide to men’s pattern cutting featuring every type of costume from 16th century onward - fashionable costume and ordinary clothes Garments are illustrated with drawings and paintings…
Patterns for Costume Accessories
An indispensable ‘how to’ book offering the practical solution to almost any costume accessory need - make it yourself! This unique, large-format book comprises a collection of over 80 patterns…
Patterns for Theatrical Costumes - Garments & Trims and Accessories from Ancient Egypt to 1915
A unique resource - garments, trims and accessories spanning Ancient Egypt to 1915 and including 350 pages of detailed costume patterns to trace, cut-out and assemble ... Gowns, tunics, headdresses, jackets,…
Stage Costume Step by Step
Amateur designers - even those with little time or budget - will find practical guidance for creating terrific theatrical costumes presented in this resourceful book Costume designers will welcome the…
The Handbook of Stage Costume - A Practical Guide
A comprehensive guide to designing, finding and creating costumes for the stage Straightforward and accessible, the book aims to give you the skills and the confidence to dress a variety of theatre productions,…
The Little Bodice Book
A Workbook on Period Bodices offering clear, step-by-step, do-it-yourself, costume-making instructions. Each postcard-sized page consists of a set of clear instructions alongside one or more diagrams,…
Tudor Costume and Fashion
This superb panoramic study of clothing worn in the Middle Ages will fascinate costume enthusiasts, fashion historians and anyone intrigued by medieval life. A meticulously researched text is enhanced…
Underwear - The Fashion History
A fascinating and comprehensive study of undergarments from 1500 to the present day with illustrations from advertisements, catalogues, cartoons and paintings
