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Costumer’s Quotes

“Costumers make clothes for imaginary people” -Celestine Ranney

“Make it pretty and make it work” – Bob Blackman

“Done is good. Done is beautiful” – Pat Lusk

“If you’re going to steal, steal the best” – ?

“It’s probably under something.” Sign in the Living History Center (Northern California Renaissance Fair 1980s) Costume shop.

“It’s a’ learning’ experience” – Mrs. Elzey my H.S. sewing teacher after any disastrous sewing foul up.

“Hot glue is good for you: It whitens your teeth and improves your sex life” – Pat Lusk

…“…If you have a sex life” – Lorraine Pettit

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Naming the Workspace: Costume Shop vs Costume Studio

Many Costume construction work rooms, especially in Theatre Departments in US Colleges and Universities, are referred to as the “Costume Shop”, while others are called a “Costume Studio”. Essentially, they mean the same thing to the workers, the choice is largely made one way or the other because of perceived values associated with the two names, and efforts by the managers/namers of these spaces to get equal status and worker pay with the Scene Shop in the same building, or equal status, funding and worker pay with other artistic departments in a college. (Side note: Interestingly, unlike most other American theatre terminology these two choices are not based on English models, as in the UK these spaces are most often referred to as “Costume Workrooms”).

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The Old c. 1995 Costumer’s Manifesto “Book” that started before I thought to start putting this stuff on the internet in 1996….

A Book of General Advice for Costumers

 By Tara Maginnis Ph.D. The first “self-help” manual for those artists who make clothes for imaginary people.

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