Instant Period Costumes

Rogers, Barb

ISBN 10: 1566080703 / ISBN 13: 9781566080705

Published by Meriwether Publishing,U.S., 2001

About this Item

2001. 1st. Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, photos & illus. BIC Classification: WCV; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 292. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9781566080705

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Instant Period Costumes
• Publisher: Meriwether Publishing,U.S.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566080703
• ISBN 13: 9781566080705
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Why spend a small fortune to rent expensive period costumes when you can create them yourself for less than a day's rental price? Make them the easy way from cast-off clothing... without sewing! This valuable resource presents the concept of "conversion costuming." The first rule of thumb is that you must put aside your preconceived ideas about how to make a costume. The world of conversion costuming is miles away from fabrics, measuring, pinning, cutting, and sewing. The most important tool you need is your imagination. To help you, this book includes over 65 ingenious costumes designs with photos and diagrams for many periods from Egyptian, Greek, and Roman all the way to Punk. These conversion costuming ideas will save you time, money, and deadline disasters and give you precisely the costume you want. From '20s to '80s to Old West to Renaissance, put aside the boring and mundane part of costuming and go right to the exciting and creative part!

About the Author

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.