Judy Adamson's period pattern class presented 1920s day dresses last week (this semester is 20th century womenswear).

Here's some pix, plus a bonus footwear project!

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Millinery class presented blocked hat projects today, all felts of various styles, all super-fabulous!

Check them out...

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This semester, i'm teaching my graduate level millinery class, and today my students presented their first round of projects--buckram forms!

Here are some of the highlights... (plus also a bonus pair of super-awesome Alexander McQueen-inspired platform shoes!)

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Judy Adamson's period pattern class is doing 20th Century Women's Wear by decade and they presented their first round of projects last week! Take a look:
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While in New York this summer, i also got a chance to check out the NYC Makers exhibit at the Museum of Art and Design, running through October 12, 2014. The exhibit spotlights 100 "Makers" throughout NYC's 5 boroughs, creators of all different types of art and creatively-designed products ( Read more... )

Last week, i went to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art's current Costume Institute exhibition, "Charles James: Beyond Fashion."The short version is: if you are at all interested in unusual structure, tailoring, creative draping, and couture construction, find a way to go. I seriously think that if all i had done was fly to NYC, go to the exhibit, ( Read more... )

My current gig is to serve as the costume shop manager for the Summer Youth Conservatory at Playmakers Repertory (the company for which i serve as the crafts artisan throughout the regular theatre season). The conservatory is our summer program for middle school and high school students, a five-week program during which we rehearse, open, and run a ( Read more... )

So, my super-fantabulous, brilliant colleague and fellow writer Margaret Peot tagged me in the Writing Process Blog Tour. Margaret is a supremely talented artist, illustrator, costume painter, and author, and one of my favorite people in all of New York City. Y'all will recognize her name because I’m always pimping her most recent book, The ( Read more... )

I'm doing my first-ever book giveaway over on Goodreads, three copies of Sticks in Petticoats: Parasol Manufacture for the Modern Costumer! The giveaway is open for entries from now through midnight on Wednesday, July 9, and is open to Goodreads members who are US residents ( Read more... )