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Costuming nonprofessional
actors or dancers, or a person doing living
history, is a very different situation to working in a professional
environment such as theatre or film. For a start, in most circumstances,
the customer is paying, and choosing what to wear, whereas in
professional work for the media there is a budget, to which you have to
work, and usually a designer and a director to make the design decisions.
With amateurs, and by amateurs I mean those who mostly do not make a
living wearing costume, you are the designer, the director and the maker
all rolled into one.
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 We had numerous entries to our writing competition this last month and we judges had a hard time choosing the top two, let alone the winner!
First place goes to Lindsey Eastman for her great essay "Death of a Costume Snark".
We'll publish the second place entry next month.
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In part three of her four part series, Kendra van Cleave shows us some tips and techniques to find good information on the Internet. This month, she adds books, journals and conferences to our arsenal of
resources, recommending the most useful ones, showing us how best to
use them, and telling us what to look out for.
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So you've finally completed your new gown – and you want to show it to the world.
But somehow, every time you try to take a picture, it just doesn't quite seem to capture the full glory of the thing itself.
Photography is an art, and teaching you to be a master is far beyond the scope of this article (not to mention my talent), but I hope to give you some tips and advice that will help make your costume photos as good as they can be.
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 How do you clean and care for wool without shrinking it?
Our fabrics diva Diana Habra answers some questions we've all asked ourselves at one point or another!
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This month we publish the runner up in our essay contest.
Transitional eras fascinate me. In times of rapid social and
technological change, what people wear changes dramatically as fashion
collides with reality.
One such era is the early 20th Century. The years ending 1914 were
named La Belle Epoque as people looked back wistfully upon the era. The
graceful long gowns, the carriages, the attentive servants, all faded
into autumnal memory after the Great War.
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