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The Costume Designer's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Amateur and Professional Costume Designers

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I'd been assisting designers for quite some time, even designed some of my own shows, without an education in costume design. I have lots of great experience but I'm sure nothing can compete with a costume design education (mine is in fashion design), which I'd like to pursue when I have the time. I'm so glad I found out about this book! Every aspect of the process you need to know about is in here. It is essential! I can't believe I survived as long as I did without it.

It is amazing that someone could leave a negative review of a book because it was "not what [they] were looking for", when the description of the book states exactly what it's about. It is not a pattern book. It is not a book full of historical costume pictures. It is a book for theatrical costume designers, going over the process of theatrical costume design from start to finish, and it is very good & thorough. Extremely helpful, especially if you're just starting out in costuming for productions of any size!

This is a great resource for the design process. I especially use these guidelines for analysis of a play and characters whenever I design a show. A must have for anyone interested in designing shows!!

I bought this book because of the ratings and was disappointed. Yes it does give chronological information on planning and basics on drawing and a lot of info on working therater designs and with others. Great, but not what I needed. It also has a great reference section for doing the research you need to do but, I already had most of this info from other sources. I have a history and arts background and i needed inspiration. It did give me an inspiration to reorganize my art supplies!Don't waste your money if you are not theater oriented. AND I do mean theater.

This is a great book, it helps you to create a workflow and teaches how to handle directors, actors and costumers, it is not what I was looking for but, has a lot of handy hints and things you should know, so it's a must have.

Anyone looking for help and directions on pure design should look another book, in this one, is not a big chapter.

It is also focused on theater as many reviews had said.

This book is a must for budding theatrical costume designers. The writer go into so much detail when it comes to renderings and the profession of Costume Designing.

This book unfortunately was not what I wanted. However, this book is extremely detailed, and for somebody who is interested in stage or theatre costumes, very helpful in pointing the steps required to design the types of costumes for specific productions.

I wanted a book to help me create costumes ie more of a pattern book.

Amazon very difficult to deal with if not in Amercia

I bought this text as a required reading for a theater class and can't tell you what a disappointment it was for me. I was looking for really specific help on costume creation and construction as applied to period themes and body types. I wanted to find ways to make costumes that were more adaptable and easy to wear and move in.

This book is filled with lists and management strategies for the costumer. One section covers dealing with actors, directors and other stage and set staff. For the person running the costume corner of the theater, this book has forms and file lists for setting up the perfectly efficient shop. For the creative person looking to fashion an awesome costume design...this book does nothing but give her a list of other books that might contain the construction and creation and fitting info she is looking for.

Too frustrating...!

Great book. Was sold as "used", but it looks spanking brand new.
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