Costuming Made Easy: How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-Off Clothing [Paperback]

Barb Rogers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1999

Enter the fascinating world of conversion costuming. Make your own theatrical costumes for less than a day's rental price and make them your way without any conventional sewing using patterns. Included in this book are more than 110 ingenious costume designs with photos and diagrams.

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About the Author

Brab Rogers is the founder and former owner of Broadway Bazaar Costumes, a popular and growing costume shop in Matoon, Illinois.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Meriwether Publishing; 1 edition (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566080487
• ISBN-13: 978-1566080484
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It need color pictures so badly!, November 13, 2003

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Gary Bender "tahnshieghnn" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Costuming Made Easy: How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-Off Clothing (Paperback)

If you think this book would be a good inspiring source for your Halloween costume or for your kids' school show, think again.
The ideas in this book are good but it has several big problems. First, there are no color pictures. Each entity has a hand drawn illustration for the alternation and a two inches high, whole person figure, very bad quality, black and white picture to show the final result. Since most of the costumes here need at lest two pieces of original clothing of different color and style to combine with, only if you saw a lot of board way show and hopefully remember exactly how the major characters' costumes looked like, you probably will be easily confused by those illustrations. Second, a lot of material she used here is originally costume itself (or quite fancy old-style dress to say the least) but not ordinary cast-off clothing you might think you could find in nowadays closet.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Costuming Made Easy: How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Ca, June 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Costuming Made Easy: How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-Off Clothing (Paperback)

I thought this book was wonderfully written so even somone like me does not sew well, I can still create a costume to die for. I am always making costumes for something, but this book has really opened my eyes to new innovative ways to create something alot nicer than I would ordinarily make. Thank You Barb for the book, it helped me alot and I am sure I am not the only one.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars $50 Richer!, August 1, 2000

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This review is from: Costuming Made Easy: How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-Off Clothing (Paperback)

Even though we had never before made a costume in our lives the book allowed both me and my wife to win a local costume contest. The clear and consise directions saved my life when I had to finish my costume the weekend my wife was out of town. And thanks to Ms Rogers we not only impressed our friends, we're $50 richer!