Costumer’s Guild West, Inc. presents the 26th annual Costume College 2018

Dressing the Royals July 26 - 30, 2018

Bonus Track: What’s That Fabric? www.costumecollege.net

Registration Book Contents

Dean’s Message 1 Storming the Castle Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills 2 Roommates 2 Transportation 3 Parking at the Hotel 3 Visiting the Realm Finding Food: light snacks to extravagant meals 4 Bringing your own food 4 What to Wear 5 Emergency Costume Supplies 5 Disability Accommodations 5 The Royal Salons Event Check-In 6 Costume Exhibits 7 Hospitality Suite 8 Marketplace 9 Bargain Basement 10 Portrait Studio 11 CGW Board Mixer 11 The Royal Entourage Pool Party: Realm of the Goblin King 12 Friday Night Social: A Princess in Paris 13 Red Carpet 14 Raffles 14 Time Traveler’s Gala: The Royal Coronation Ball 15 Sunday Breakfast: The Royal Breakfast 16 Fantasy Tea: Victoria’s Fancy Dress Tea 17 Royal Parchment Information Desk 18 Social Media 18 Mobile App 19 Scholarships & How to Get Them 19 Caught on Camera 20 Volunteers 21 Panic Room 21 The Royal Parade Class Information 22 Freshman Orientation 23 Tours 24 Classes 26 Teacher Biographies 55 History of Deans & Themes 70 The Minor Edicts About Costumer’s Guild West and Costume College 71 Legal Disclosures and Policies 71 From the Parliament Costume College Committee Members 73 CGW, Inc. Board Members 73 Dean's Message

Welcome, welcome, to all our noble members of Costume College 2018!! I’m so excited to share everything our Team Royal has been working on for the past 6 months. And if you’re one of our teachers or volunteers, you are an honorary Team Royal member too! Thank you! To our new students, or fairly new students, please try and attend the Freshman Orientation on Friday morning at 8 am. It will be well worth your time to attend.

Please, take the time to read EVERYTHING in this book prior to coming to Costume College. Every year, we hear that someone missed something because they didn’t know about it. But if they had READ THE BOOK, they would have known. Everything in this book is worth a read.

This Registration Book contains all the hard work your Team Royal has put together into making it a splendid event to all visiting royalty, diplomats, dignitaries, and scribes. It will tell you when, where, why, and how. We’ve even made some changes this year. Use our Table of Contents to find what you’re looking for. THIS is your reference book, and your homework assignment is to read it before you arrive.

My theme for you this year is “Dressing the Royals.” As last year’s College ended, I had already come up with an idea what my theme for the next year would be: it would revolve around royalty.With so many movies and TV series out on various kings and queens, my fantasies were full of all the beautiful dresses and yes, the TIARAS! With so many wearing them at the previous College years, it seemed the perfect fit too. What was amazing about my theme idea was that it could encompass so much; historical, fantasy, nationalities from all over the world, and some slightly odd off-shoots. My primary focus would be for the Gala theme, and I wanted it to be a royal coronation ball, with all the mysticism, pomp and music that goes with it. I let my other special event Committee Heads come up with their themes that would complement my main theme, and they did exactly what I hoped for. They came up with some amazing ideas. I shared my thoughts on the Gala theme with my Gala Master and Mistress, and just wait until you see what they’ve come up with!

Each event gives you an opportunity to make something to wear with it, or you can just wear what you like, but staying within the PG-rating. There are no rules that say you have to copy the theme. Not everyone will. I rarely do. And there also is no rule that you must be in costume.

After you check in for Costume College Thursday night, wander on over to the outdoor pool area for “The Realm of the Goblin King.” On Friday evening, after classes, we will welcome you with light snacks at the Friday Night Social, “A Princess in Paris.” On Saturday night, the evening starts with the Red Carpet as you step off the elevators and head to the Gala. The Gala requires a pre- purchased ticket, but everyone is invited to walk the Carpet and show off your beautiful clothing, or you can gather in the main salon and watch everyone as they arrive. Then early the next morning, dress in your resplendent robes and tiara for the Royal Breakfast. Later that day, join us for Victoria’s Fancy Dress Tea, the final paid event of the day.

The Gala dinner and Tea have both sold out, but check at the Information Desk for any ticekets that may be up for sale by members who can’t go. There may also be some being sold on the Costume College Facebook groups and the Yahoo Group.

In the Table of Contents, learn about the other special things we have: the Marketplace, the Bargain Basement, the Costume Exhibit, the Caught on Camera exhibit, the Photographers Studio, and the Photo Studio for self-photos. On Saturday night after the Gala, we’ll hold our Raffle, with proceeds going to our scholarship fund. Last but not least, a Panic Room will be open Friday night for those last minute sewing frenzies.

On Friday, we’ll have a special guest teacher, Kevin Jones, from FIDM, who will be giving us a presentation on the royal clothing in their collection, and also those of our American princesses who married into European nobility.

Now start reading!

Valarie LaBore Dean, Costume College 2018

- www.costumecollege.net - 1 Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills We sold out extremely early this year for rooms. For those wondering why, I wrote an extensive post in the Costume College forum so that there are no questions, as well as a plea to have those “holding” rooms to release them. If you have a reservation currently, and need to cancel, please email me immediately. If you are without a room, please email me immediately at [email protected]. I will be starting a waiting list as well as sending out information on surrounding hotels and their available rates.

As most veterans to Costume College will tell you, it is absolutely worth it to stay at the hotel for the weekend. Much of your College Experience comes from the impromptu discussions that occur in the hallways, over breakfast and during late night visits. Staying at the hotel lets you relax and enjoy the weekend without driving home LATE or getting up extra early to make it to a class on time. Warner Center Marriott has had the pleasure of hosting Costume College since 2010 and their entire STORMING THE CASTLE staff is always prepared and excited to make it an extra special weekend. We’ve heard several times that Costume College is their favorite weekend, and some employees specifically request to work just to see us.

Just a reminder that all rooms include irons, ironing boards, hairdryer, and coffee-makers – with mini-refrigerators upon request (first come – first serve). The rooms are large enough to accommodate up to four people.

Here are a few more reasons to stay at the hotel if extra sleep is not enough incentive: • Have a convenient place to change before the Gala and/or Tea; • Have a convenient place to store all the stuff you bring to Costume College and all the purchases you make from the Marketplace; • Discounted Breakfast Buffet on Sunday at $17.00 per person; • In walking distance of an abundance of restaurants (see Getting Food article for details); • Enjoy the hotel’s pool, Jacuzzis, work-out room, cocktail lounge and restaurant; • Costume College events are happening all weekend, and it would be a bummer for you to miss something because you were stuck in traffic!

Our special room rate varies depending on availability, and are single/quadruple occupancy. Rollaways are available at an additional cost of $20 per night, for king bedded rooms only (not double bedded rooms). Parking is $15.00 per night.

For those of you planning on hosting guests in your rooms during the evening and into the late night, please try and book a room on the higher floors or the same floor as hospitality suite (17th Floor). This is to ensure that we are not disturbing any other guests in the hotel, as we will not have an “Entertainment Floor” officially designated. Roommates Heading to Costume College®? Would you like to meet new people? How about save some money? We have a one-word answer to all of those questions — roommates. Whether you want just one roomie or more, we can help you to connect with others in search of the same and thereby set yourself up to have a blast, PLUS share expenses! Even if rooms have sold out, sharing with another attendee who already has a reservation can be a way for you to stay at the hotel and enjoy its amenities.

This is a free service designed for you to get the best possible experience while at Costume College. We will match you with potential roommates based on the information you provide below, and then forward to you their e-mail contact information and names. Everything else will be up to you. All monies for reservations will be at your expense, such as car spaces and food costs.

Contact Amy at [email protected], put “CC2018” in the subject line, and in the body of your text include the following information: • your name • have you booked your room already? • phone number • smoking or non-smoking? • e-mail address • do you prefer a warm or cold room? • how many roommates you are seeking • are you a morning or evening person? • gender preference • are you new to Costume College? • how many and which nights? Our last opportunity to provide potential roommates will be June 30th, so get your responses in soon!

2 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Transportation General Directions to the Hotel

The Warner Center Marriott is located at 21850 Oxnard Street, Woodland Hills, California 91367. Take whichever freeway connects you to US 101 and exit at Topanga Canyon Blvd. North. Proceed 0.6 miles to Oxnard Street and turn right. Proceed 0.1 mile. The hotel will be on your right.

Transportation options from airports

If you are flying into any of the Los Angeles Area airports, the following are your options for transportation to the Marriott Warner Center in Woodland Hills. (Prices listed are as of Feb 2, 2018)

Flying into Burbank Bob Hope Airport (BUR) – 20 miles from the Marriott Warner Center • Shuttles: Super Shuttle $52 non-stop (shared ride $23), Prime Time $82, Roadrunner $40 • Taxi, Uber, Lyft: United Taxi SFV $57, Uber $30, Lyft $29 Flying into Los Angeles Airport (LAX) – 28 miles from the Marriott Warner Center • Shuttles: Super Shuttle $80 non-stop (shared ride $29), Prime Time $58, Roadrunner $71 • Taxi, Uber, Lyft: United Taxi SFV $76, Yellow Cab $75-87, Uber $46, Lyft $41 Flying into Long Beach Airport (LGB) – 46 miles from the Marriott Warner Center • Shuttles: Super Shuttle $142 non-stop (shared ride $102), Prime Time $118, Roadrunner $104 • Taxi, Uber, Lyft: Yellow Cab $127-147, Uber $65, Lyft $60

Shuttle Options – Be sure to state that the Marriott Warner Center in Woodland Hills is your destination. • Super Shuttle – phone (800) BLUEVAN or visit www.supershuttle.com • Prime Time Shuttle – phone (800) 733-8267 or visit www.primetimeshuttle.com • Roadrunner Shuttle – phone (800) 247-7919 or visit www.rr.shuttle.com

Taxi Options • Use Uber or Lyft from your smart phone • Yellow Cab – phone (818) 242-3131 or visit www.yellowcab.com • United Taxi San Fernando Valley – phone (800) 290-5600 or text (323) 207-8294

Rental Car Options • Alamo (844) 354-6962 www.alamo.com • Avis (800) 633-3469 www.avis.com • Budget (800) 218-7992 www.budget.com • Enterprise (855) 266-9289 www.enterprise.com • Hertz (800) 654-3131 www.hertz.com For more information, see www.carrentalexpress.com STORMING THE CASTLE STORMING Parking at the Hotel

Costume College Members Staying at the Warner Center Marriott: If you are staying at the hotel and parking on-site, you will need to let the Registration desk know that you have a vehicle upon check in and you will receive a parking pass. The hotel will charge your room bill $15.00 per day for every night you are registered as a guest. The parking pass will allow you in and out privileges.

Costume College Members Not Staying at the hotel: Daily visitors may purchase parking at the Valet desk in front of the hotel for their day-stay. There are no in and out privileges for the day pass. However, as an alternative, there is some parking behind the hotel next to the park and across the street in the mall parking lot. Please note the parking hour signage for each location. Costume College or the Marriott Warner Center is not responsible for any parking tickets you may receive for disregarding outside parking signage.

If you have any questions about the parking charges, please do not hesitate to contact the Hotel Liaison, Maegen Hensley at [email protected].

- www.costumecollege.net - 3 Finding Food: Light Snacks to Extravagant Meals In order to offer as may classes as possible, we are unable to leave time for breaks in our class schedule. But we do encourage you to take time throughout the day to eat. Hotel Options: Asado Urban Grill - American Q Martini Bar - American Experience elevated casual dining at its finest. Their Upscale martinis, microbrews, infused vodka, fabulous expertly prepared menu is a blend of traditional favorites fruitinis, and a full appetizer menu make Q Martini Bar one and unique twists on classic dishes. They also offer a of the hottest bars in town. Watch the game on flat-screen selection of world-renowned wines, craft beer and inspired TVs and take advantage of their daily happy hour with cocktails. friends, family or colleagues. Breakfast from 6:30 am - 10:30 am M-Th and 7 am - 10:30 am 1 pm - 12 am, Happy Hours 5 pm - 7 pm M-F

VISITING THE REALM Fri-Sun, Lunch from 11 am - 2 pm, and Dinner from 5 pm - 10 pm Room Service - American Starbucks Coffee – Coffee House Generally, the same offerings as Asado Urban Grill. (They do not take Starbucks cards) Thursday and Sunday from 6 am- 11 pm The all-new Starbucks Café features a full menu of your Friday - Saturday from 6 am - 12 midnight favorite hot and cold Starbucks specialty beverages, snacks and food items, including signature breakfast sandwiches, as Friday and Saturday around noon, there will be a food well as packaged to-go bistro boxes, yogurt, fresh fruit and station available in the CoCo Registration area in baked goods. front of the grand foyer. They will be providing pre- 5:30 am - 9 pm (except Sundays when they open at 6:30 am) packaged sandwiches and salads as well as cookies, chips, and drinks for members at a discounted price. Take advantage! Walking Options: Within The Promenade at Woodland Hills Shopping Center, hours are Mon. - Sat. 10 am - 9 pm and Sundays 11 am - 7 pm. Within the Mall on both levels there are restaurants including Baja Bud’s, California Roll & Sushi, Teriyaki Grill, Subway and Hummus Republic.

On the outskirts of the mall (outside access) and in the parking lot are the following:

• P.F. Chang’s China Bistro – lunch and dinner; Chinese • Ruth Chris Steakhouse – lunch and dinner; upscale • Maggiano’s Little Italy – lunch and dinner; Italian American • Corner Bakery – breakfast, lunch and dinner; Pastries, • McDonalds – breakfast, lunch and dinner; American fast salads, sandwiches food • Subway – Lunch and Dinner; American Deli Bringing Your Own Food While there are a lot of places to eat in the hotel and adjoining areas, we realize that eating out three meals a day can be expensive and time consuming, not to mention that it’s impossible with many diets and food allergies. You are more than welcome to bring your own food. We suggest keeping the following in mind: • Your hotel room may not come with a mini-fridge. A recent call to the Warner Center Marriott provided the following: 90% of the rooms come with a fridge. If the room does not, you’ll need to request one if you have perishables. • It’s easy to over-book yourself and wind up taking classes the whole day through, or being sidelined by friends on your way to a quick meal. It’s always a good idea to carry a few baggies of snacks or an energy bar or two. • Starbucks is always there and is open long hours, but at peak times the line can be exasperating. Have a backup plan. • Carry a bottle of your favorite thirst-quenching beverage with you. Stay hydrated.

Most of all, enjoy your stay. If you arrive and realize a quick grocery run is in order, the following grocery stores are nearby: • Whole Foods Market (1.2 mi) 21347 Ventura Blvd, Woodland Hills, CA 91364 • Ralphs (1.5 mi) 21909 Ventura Blvd, Woodland Hills 91364 • Trader Joe’s (1.5 mi) 21055 Ventura Blvd, Woodland Hills 91364 For more information, see the friendly people at the Costume College Information Desk. 4 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - What to Wear

Costume College is designed to offer endless opportunities to learn about, create, and show off costumes.

First, there is no requirement to wear a costume to any event. You can spend the whole weekend in your civvies just soaking up knowledge and no one will make a peep. But . . . you’ll miss out on half the fun! So to get the most out of your weekend, you’ll want to dress up a bit. At major events: For the Pool Party, Friday Night Social, Sunday Breakfast, Fantasy Tea, and especially for the Time Traveler’s Ball & Gala, costumes are a wonderful way to enhance the event. Remember that at each event you will be walking, maneuvering around tables and chairs, sitting, talking, and often eating and drinking. Test your costume at home if you’re not sure it will work in any of these situations.

In the hallways and classrooms: If you want to dress up the rest of the time, feel free to do so. But above all, be comfortable and be cognizant of the comfort of others. Costume College classes, lectures and demos are learning experiences, so make sure that your costume — should you choose to wear one — won’t detract from another student’s experience. You don’t want your costume to obstruct the view of the person behind you or cause you to take up three seats in a packed lecture room. Plus, we want YOU to be comfortable. Costumes that are similar to regular street clothes in bulk and agility usually work well. Remember that you may be rushing to eat or get to a class on time, so, when in doubt, wear street clothes. Emergency Costuming (and other) Supplies

It happens to everyone at some time or another. You arrive at an event you’ve been planning for ages, and suddenly you realize that the green bag — no, the OTHER green bag — is still sitting at the back of your garage. With all your sewing supplies, or make-up, or whatever.

Fear not, the Warner Center Marriott is fortuitously situated amongst world-class shopping, as well as shopping for poor creative souls like us. • Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts: 22914 Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills (1.8 miles) • Daiso Japan (Japanese dollar store): 6745 Fallbrook Ave., Unit 916, West Hills (2.1 miles) • Michael’s: 6625 Fallbrook Ave., West Hills (2.1 miles) • Westfield Promenade (small mall directly north of the hotel). Derided in Wikipedia as a “dead” mall, this mall has a functional AMC 16 and several restaurants for quick eats. The parking lot closest to our hotel also boasts a PF Chang’s. • A newer and significantly larger Westfield mall is one more block north, where Westfield Topanga (and the Village

at Westfield Topanga) take up several city blocks. This mall contains a wide variety of mid- to high-end retail stores VISITING THE REALM including several cosmetics shops and chain clothing stores like The Gap (0.9 miles). See store listing: www.westfield. com/topanga/stores/all-stores/the-village Disability Accomodation

It is the policy of the Costumer’s Guild West to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). We will not discriminate against any attendee of Costume College. We will also reasonably accommodate all attendees with disabilities unless the accommodations would cause an undue hardship to the Costumer’s Guild West or the Marriott Warner Center in Woodland Hills.

If you require an accommodation for special needs covered under the ADA, you must notify the Costumer’s Guild West and/or the Marriott Warner Center within a reasonable time before the beginning of Costume College. The person you need to notify of your special needs is the Hotel Liaison of Costume College, Maegen Hensley by e-mail at [email protected].

Additionally, we will keep the information regarding your condition and special needs confidential. Only those members of the Costumer’s Guild West and the Marriott Warner Center who are in a “need to know” position will be informed of your situation. - www.costumecollege.net - 5 Event Check-In

Welcome to Costume College 2018!!! We are pleased to bring you Check-In, your gateway to the Royal Court of costuming of all eras. This is a grand time when alumni and newcomers gather together to share the excitement and connect with friends.

Check-In for Students and Teachers will open at 7 pm on Thursday, July 26 in the Salon Lobby in front of the Information desk and will continue Friday morning from 7:30 am to 11 am. Afterwards, all registration materials that have not been picked up will be available at the information desk through Sunday, July 29, 2018.

The Students will receive: THE ROYAL SALONS • The Program Book, which includes maps, schedules and course descriptions. • Your Costume College 2018 Badge. Please make sure to wear it at all times when you are at the hotel. • Royal Coronation Ball Gala and/or Victoria’s Fancy Dress Tea tickets, if purchased. • Royal Coronation Ball Gala and/or Victoria’s Fancy Dress Tea special meal card, if requested. • A list of special tours and/or limited attendance classes you have paid for in advance.

Don’t forget to download the Crowd Compass Directory app (instructions in the Social Media section). It is a great complement to your registration materials!

To all of our Royal Volunteers, thank you for your support! To potential Volunteers, please consider giving Check-In an hour or two of your time, it is a great way to support Costume College and meet fellow attendees.

Gina Cowley, Check-In Chair

A reminder to teachers You will have YOUR OWN CHECK-IN AREA. Please look for it and do NOT go to the student lines. If you are both a teacher and a student, please check-in at the Teacher Area. All of your check-in material will be there, so you do not need to stand in both lines.

When: Thursday, 7 pm Where: Salon Lobby, in front of the Information Desk Who: Students and Teachers

6 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - What’s Under There?

Costume Exhibits Carrying through with last year’s Bonus Track of “Understructures of the Costume” by the Assistant Dean, now Dean, Val LaBore, this year’s Costume Exhibits theme is “Under There.”

“Under There” will showcase under-structures, under-pinnings and all manner of “under theres” that costumers wear under their fabulous costumes. Many “under theres” act as support structures for heavy fabrics or large outer structures, or are part of historical accuracy which also support fabrics and protect the wearer.

The Costume Exhibit will feature the beautiful work of Costume College costumers in the setting of an 1800’s department store. This will allow for not only the display of “Under Theres” but also the accoutrements one would find in a shop. This is the perfect opportunity to show smaller accessories that feature detailed techniques; perhaps a reticule with beautiful embroidery, a handkerchief with handmade lace, simple shoes that were transformed into a work of art, a parasol, a sword.

Please … SUBMIT EXAMPLES OF YOUR WORK!!! We want you to share your “Under There”. Details for submitting your display item is available on the Costume College website under Departments -> Exhibits. Submission Deadline May 15th.

Cynthia Aronin, Costume Exhibits Chair

When: Friday & Saturday 9 am - 5 pm Sunday 9 am - 3 pm Where: Salon C Who: Everyone! Students, Teachers, Volunteers, Guests OPEN TO THE PUBLIC THE ROYAL SALONS THE ROYAL

- www.costumecollege.net - 7 Hospitality Suite

We’re waiting for your close-up, Kings and Queens of the Silver Screen! The Victorian Tea & Dance Society returns to Costume College 2018 with the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood. Whether you indulge the paparazzi or go incognito, you will be pampered like the next Mary Pickford in our en suite lounge featuring craft service-like treats for you to enjoy with your co-stars. Sign autographs or show off your favorite costume in our main tinseltown club room. Get away from the mob in our quiet dailies room to watch inspiring best-costume movies from all eras, nibble tasty snacks, sit back and relax. Or retreat into our wardrobe room with lighted mirrors for make-up play, or quiet conversation while sipping scrumptious tea (of course!) and schmoozing with fellow costume artisans. Why don’t you come up and see us sometime?

Darlene Hamilton and The Victorian Tea & Dance Society THE ROYAL SALONS

NOTE: The Hospitality Suite accepts home-baked food contributions! We are very fortunate to have this agreement with the hotel and this helps bring an abundance of wonderful tea time treats into the room. PLEASE LIST INGREDIENTS ON A CARD so that those with allergies will know what they can eat.

The Hospitality Suite is designed to be a place of pleasant conversation and light snacks. Please do not rely on it in lieu of meals. The CGW Board of Directors and Costume College Committee encourages everyone to remember that you are responsible for your own meals. We request that you not abuse the privilege. Thank you.

The Hospitality Suite will be open: Friday 2- 5:30 pm and 8 - 11 pm ** Closed during the Friday Night Social Saturday 2 - 5:30 pm and 7:30 - 11 pm Sunday 2 - 5:30 pm and 7:30 - 11 pm

8 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Marketplace

I am very excited about the wonderful shopping experience awaiting you this year.

Many old favorites will be returning, along with a few new surprises. Once again, the Marketplace will be hosting the popular Early Bird Shopping Event on Friday afternoon. For a $7 donation benefiting the Costume College Scholarship Fund, eager shoppers can get a head start in The Marketplace from 3:30 pm to 6 pm on Friday. You can purchase your Early Bird tickets at the Information Desk starting Friday morning for your entrance into the Marketplace at 3:30 pm. We appreciate your contribution to the Costume College Scholarship Fund with your Early Bird ticket purchase!

The Grand Opening for all members runs from 7:45 pm (following the Friday Night Social) until 10 pm. As always, The Marketplace will be open to Costume College members, along with the general public on all three days of Costume College (Friday night, Saturday and Sunday).

If you have friends who are unable to attend College, please remind them that the Marketplace is open to everyone. No College membership is required to come and explore a fabulous shopping experience! We hope that there are wonderful items to inspire you, complete your outfit or just make you smile! Our goal for The Marketplace 2018 is to bring together a wonderful mix of supplies, accessories and information for all your costume dreams!

Lois Munera, Marketplace Chair

“Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.”

Bo Derek SALONS THE ROYAL

The 2018 Marketplace hours are: Friday, July 27: 3:30 pm – 6 pm (Early Bird Scholarship Event) Friday, July 27: 7:45 am – 10 pm (Grand Opening) Saturday, July 28: 8:30 am – 5 pm Sunday, July 29: 8:30 am – 5 pm

- www.costumecollege.net - 9 Bargain Basement & Exotic Emporium of Fascinating Finds

Got clutter? Get rid of it! Those patterns you don’t use anymore? That fabric someone gave you that’s hideous? A tired bunch of notions? Even clutter in a related area? Donate all of it to the Bargain Basement! If you want suggestions, ideas, even moral support for donating something, then e-mail Carolyn Richardson at: [email protected].

The proceeds from our Bargain Basement go to create new scholarships for the following year’s Costume College, as well as other CGW events. These scholarships help students attend Costume College who otherwise would not be able to come. And because it’s all going for a good cause, you can get donation receipts for tax purposes. Once an item is donated, it cannot be reclaimed by the donator.

THE ROYAL SALONS Unfortunately, we cannot take anything from anyone before Costume College starts. If you wish to donate but won’t be attending, you can send items with a friend who’s coming. You can also mail packages to Teresa Will, c/o of the Marriott Hotel where Costume College is being held, timed to arrive a day or two before the start of the sale on Sunday. Donation receipts can be mailed back.

Also, if you’re donating something special, please bring it to our attention. If it’s special enough, we’ll make it a part of this year’s Seventh Silent Auction. The auction begins at 8 am on Sunday morning. If you wish to bid on something, there will be a sheet of paper next to each auction item where you can write your name and bid. At 10 am (sharp!), the highest bid will be the winner. If the winner doesn’t pay for the item by 10:30 am, the second highest bid will be the winner and that person needs to pay for the auction item by 11 am. After that, if the item is still unclaimed, it will go up for sale with everything else.

Because of space constrictions, we are limited to how many shoppers we can allow in to the Bargain Basement (35) when it opens. So, we are starting the ban of wheeled carts while people are still waiting outside in line to come into the sale. We are hoping to supply shopping baskets for the convenience of our patrons.

Also, at 11am, we will start selling large trash-style bags for $5. You may then fill up that bag with ANY remaining item(s). Don’t forget to volunteer! It’s an enormous job to organize donations for the Bargain Basement, and we can use all the help we can get. Get a first look at the wonderful items donated by helping us sort and organize!

Carolyn Richardson, Bargain Basement Chair, & Assistant Tao Will

Located in Salons A and B, around the corner from the Marketplace and down the hall.

Bargain Basement hours (subject to change): Thursday, July 26: 7 pm – 9 pm – Donation Drop-off, Salon I Friday, July 27: 9 am – 6 pm – Donation Drop-off, Salon I Saturday, July 28: 9 am – 6 pm – Donation Drop-off & Perusal, Salon I & II Sunday, July 29: 8 am – 12 pm – Open for Sale! Sunday, July 29: 8 am – 10 am – Silent Auction

10 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Portrait Studio

Whether it’s a labor of love, a pièce de résistance, your magnum opus, the new sine qua non of the costume world or something you just threw Professional Portrait Studio together that really works, the easiest way to share your creation with Hours family, friends and fellow costumers and keep your portfolio current is with a professional portrait. Thursday 7:30 pm - 9 pm

Shotwell Collection photographer Andy Schmidt returns to Costume Friday 1 pm - 3:30 pm, 5:30 - 9 pm College for his 7th year as our official photographer. The Portrait Studio will be open throughout Costume College weekend, particularly for Saturday 8:30 am - 10 am, 12 pm - 2:30 pm, the hours leading up to and including the Friday Night Social, Time 5 pm - 11 pm Traveler’s Gala, Sunday Breakfast and Fantasy Tea. Sunday 8 am - 10 am, 11:30 am - 3:30 pm A limited photo opp for Gala Night last year has led to the purchase of a special “Dressing the Royals” themed backdrop that will used in the Where: Salon D Portrait Studio exclusively on Saturday night. If you haven’t seen the Who: Anyone with a ribbon may access the sample images posted on the Costume College Year-Round Forum page, Portrait Studio; the DIY Studio is open to you’re in for a treat. everyone.

Purchase your Portrait Studio ribbon for $1 at the Information Desk or in the Studio. The ribbon entitles you to pose for photos as many times as you like. Professional-quality prints and digital downloads may be purchased at very affordable prices from the Shotwell Collection web site at photos.theshotwellcollection.com starting about a week or so after Costume College.

In addition to the professional portrait studio, we will set up a DIY Portrait Studio where anyone who wants to take their own pictures can. There will be lights and a backdrop available for anyone to use just outside Salon D in the Hallway. This area is not associated with the professional photographer. Ribbons are not required, but please watch out for the electrical cords and hot lights.

Sandy Manning, Portrait Studio Chair

CGW Board Mixer SALONS THE ROYAL This is your opportunity to meet the women behind the curtain. The CGW sponsors Costume College and the members of the board work hard to both keep the club running year round and put on this amazing weekend.

Enjoy tea and biscuits and get to know a little more about the inner workings of CGW. This is an excellent opportunity to ask questions of the Board, meet other members, and generally wind down from the whirlwind of Costume College. It’s also a great time to get to know those running for office for the 2018/2019 term.

So join us for a wonderful mixer and a chance to meet-and-greet with like- minded friends.

When: Sunday, 5:30 to 7 pm Where: Hospitality Suite Who: Students, teachers, CGW members, volunteers and anyone who might be interested in CGW or Costume College

- www.costumecollege.net - 11 The Realm of the Goblin King Thursday Night Pool Party

Deep under the Castle, just beyond the Goblin City and the Labyrinth, lies a hidden pool. Not just any pool, but one that is the venue for a party attended by all the denizens of the Other World, at the express invitation of their Goblin King.

Look for the elves from Rivendell, a land full of streams, ponds and rivers; or Lothlorien, with its silver river running through it; and even the distant Mirkwood, with dark and mysterious beings.

THE ROYAL ENTOURAGE A myriad of water sprites, elves, and nasty creatures may join the festivities. Witches, wizards, dwarves, and other fae beings will join you there. Besides a parade of bathing belles and beaus, cooling cocktails fit for royalty will be available, and a photo spot will be set up. Festivities begin at eight in the evening on Thursday, as the twilight begins.

If you need inspiration for costumes, some places to look are “Faeries,” by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, “A Field Guide to the Little People,” by Nancy Arrowsmith, or look up The Brothers Hildebrandt, the illustrators for “The Lord of the Rings.” It’s not just Labyrinth, though that is the jumping off point. Let your costume imagination run wild, but keep it PG-rated for the hotel!

Jess Miller, Pool Party Chair

“Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great.”

Sara, “Labyrinth”

When: Thursday night, 8 pm Where: Chill Bar, by the Outdoor Pool Who: Everyone! Students, Teachers, Volunteers, Guests

12 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - A Princess in Paris Friday Night Social

Welcome to the Parisian Cafe la Belle Epoque! Join us for an evening of gaiety with an American Princess and her friends, as you enjoy champagne bubbles and stroll back to the 1890s of Paris in a late afternoon walk down the Champs-Elysées, listening to the sounds of this French city and La Vie En Rose music.

Enjoy the vintage photos of 1890 Paris, while sipping on sparkling cider and delicious pastries. If you wish, join us in a costume of the 1890s as we await the arrival of new Worth gowns on the Rue de la Paix where all the nobility come to purchase their own gowns.

Kristen Foggie, Friday Night Social Chair Joyce Bolin, Assistant

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” Émile Zola

When: Friday night, 6 pm to 8 pm Where: Salon F, the main ballroom Who: Everyone! Students, Teachers, Volunteers THE ROYAL ENTOURAGE THE ROYAL

- www.costumecollege.net - 13 Red Carpet

You’ve worked your fingers to the bone, stitching and steaming, to put together something fabulous for the Time Traveler’s Gala, and now it’s time to show it off! Join us on the Royal Red Carpet Saturday evening as you make your way to the Gala.

The Royal Red Carpet Hosts wearing red sashes will direct you to your Red Carpet adventure.

Once you walk the Red Carpet, you will receive your ribbon and be directed by the Hosts to one of the two paparazzi stations where onlookers may snap away at your stunning skills before sending you off for professional photographs or for refreshments at the cash bar.

The Red Carpet walk is open to all Costume College members, teachers, and volunteers, regardless of costume or experience. This event is open to THE ROYAL ENTOURAGE the public for viewing. Your picture will be taken and may be posted on the internet.

Not interested in walking down the Red Carpet but would like to see the wonderful costumes? We encourage you to join the evening’s excitement. Gather along the length of the Red Carpet to applaud your fellow costumers, or bring your cameras to the “paparazzi” stations to take photos.

As always, there will be a bypass lane around the red carpet. Please be mindful not to block this lane for any reason, as it is also for staff use and fire safety. Please remember to follow the posted Red Carpet Etiquette for the enjoyment of all. Be courteous to our guests and do not halt them for photos on their journey: We have 300 or more dignitaries in fabulous outfits to view in a mere 45 minutes!

When: Saturday night, 5:45 pm Where: Salon Lobby Who: Everyone! Gala attendees, Students, Teachers, Volunteers, Guests

Raffles Simple: Buy tickets for the Saturday Night Raffle to support our CGW Scholarship Fund- ... View our dazzling display of delights ... Select a few favorite fancies for yourself ... Place your tickets in the corresponding ticket boxes ... Then enjoy the thrill of victory as your number is called!

Raffle tickets will be available on Saturday at the Information Desk, and then near the display of prizes in the ballroom hallway Saturday afternoon until drawing that evening.

The drawings will be held in the Grand Ballroom, AFTER dinner and AFTER the Gala has opened to the general membership for dancing, approximately 9 pm. You can come in the doors to join in with the drawings.

You and your winning ticket(s) MUST BE PRESENT to win! When: Saturday evening Tickets are $1 each, or 6 for $5. Cash or checks payable to CGW Drawing held at 9 pm when doors to ballroom open are accepted. Where: Gala ballroom, doors open to all for raffle Raffle display table outside by the ballroom. Darlene Grodske, Raffles Chair

14 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Royal Coronation Ball Time Traveler’s Gala My lords! My ladies! The Royal Court doth request your presence for the Royal Coronation Ball, in the year of our Lord 2018.

We herald you from all realms and be ye a Roman Caesar, an English King, Queen, Princess, Lord or other noble, American Royalty, Russian Czar, British Raj, Eastern Sultan, Disney Prince or Princess, or be ye from the realms of Middle Earth, Narnia, Land of Fairies, Gelderland, Asgard, Atlantis, Camelot, Endor, Mount Olympus, Nibiru, Zion or Valhalla (or where ever your heart desires), we beckon you to join in the Coronation Ball!

Whatever your status, whatever your realm, we would be honored by your presence. Royal dress is not required, but will certainly make the evening fun! There’s surely a tiara or crown in that closet somewhere.

Our Coronation Ball will be offering up an amazing feast, live entertainment of professional acrobats and performers during dinner, resplendent photo prop areas and a night of dancing hosted by DJ Tessa.

At 6:30 pm the doors open to Ticket Holders, and at this time there will be a no-host bar for drinks while you mix and mingle with the other royally awesome guests. Be sure to bring your camera or phone, because there will be some amazing special guests to take photos with during this time.

Even though dinner isn’t served until 7:30 pm, you will want to be down there before that for the start of the live entertainment and the Intro into the evening. Once the dinner is served we will be having more entertainment by our amazing company, EMCirque. Our evening will be graced for three acts of object manipulation, hand balancing, and an aerial hoop artist.

But wait …. just because you didn’t get a ticket, doesn’t mean you don’t need to don an amazing outfit and join. While the doors are closed, you can get a drink at the bar, take photos in the Photo Studio and most of all, socialize with other costumers, and be in general awe of everyone’s amazing-ness.

At 9 pm we will be opening the doors to ALL COSTUME COLLEGE PARTICIPANTS. At that time, we will be doing our raffle announcements and will kick off the rest of the evening for dancing, hosted by our DJ, ENTOURAGE THE ROYAL DJ Tessa. She will be with us all evening, and during the dancing time, she can’t wait to help us all get our dance on for the last few hours of the evening!

This is surely an event not to be missed. This is not a night to turn in early! Come one, come all!

Gala Master Ed Morlan and Gala Mistress Jennifer Mulvey

Gala Dinner and Dance When: Saturday night, 6:30 pm for drinks, Post-Gala Dancing and Party 7:30 pm dinner When: Saturday night, 8:45 pm Where: Salon F, the main ballroom Where: Salon F, the main ballroom Who: Gala Ticket Holders Who: Gala attendees, Students, Teachers, Volunteers Please pick your meal request at this link if you purchased a ticket: https://tinyurl.com/specialmealrequest2018

- www.costumecollege.net - 15 The Royal Breakfast Sunday Breakfast

THE ROYAL ENTOURAGE It’s the morning after the Royal Wedding, and now you are invited to attend the Royal Breakfast. What would you wear? Why, your tiara of course! Along with your resplendent royal robes, bathrobe or teagowns.

Denise Hendrick, Sunday Breakfast Chair

“There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.” Oscar Wilde

When: Sunday morning, ribbons 7 am to 8:45 am Where: Breeze, hotel restaurant Who: Everyone! Students, Teachers, Volunteers, Guests

16 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Victoria’s Fancy Dress Tea Fantasy Tea

You are invited to the Duchess of Devonshire’s Diamond Jubilee tea in honor of Queen Victoria, attired in fancy dress costumes. During the tea, we will be participating in an activity that was a favorite at many fancy dress balls.

Fancy Dress (costumed) balls and parties were all the rage during the Victorian era. Some had specific themes, such as those featuring costumes inspired by the reigns of Louis XV and XVI or Russian Royalty.

Costumes were generally based on the following: • HISTORICAL: Famous person from the present (1800s/Victorian era) or past. A favorite theme was European royalty. • INTERNATIONAL: A country’s national dress from 1800s and earlier. • CONCEPTS-Inventions, Ideas, Popular topic of the day, etc such as Electric Light. Photography. The Telegraph. Newspaper. Time. • OBJECTS: Table-top games, Statue, Birdcage, Clock, Painting. Any inanimate object. • NATURE: Animals and sea creatures, Flowers and plants. The Sun, the Moon, the Stars, a Rainbow. • FABLES, STORIES AND NURSERY RHYMES: Mother Goose, a novel’s hero or heroine, Red Riding Hood (Victorian style), etc.

Are you on Pinterest? Here is a link to my page with nearly 300 fancy dress costumes for inspiration! https://www.pinterest. com/costumecindy/victorian-fancy-dress-by-cindy-and-sarah/

Cindy Piselli, Sunday Tea Chair THE ROYAL ENTOURAGE THE ROYAL

When: Sunday afternoon 2 pm to 4 pm Where: Hidden Hills Who: Tea Ticket Holders Please pick your meal request on this link if you purchased a ticket: https://tinyurl.com/specialmealrequest2018

- www.costumecollege.net - 17 Information Desk

Whether you are a first- or long-time attendee, the Information Desk is here to help you with any questions or concerns that may arise. The Information Desk is staffed by volunteer members of the Costume College Committee and the CGW Board, so there are always very knowledgeable people available to assist you. We’re located in the Salon lobby.

Services that we provide include: • Information about the local neighborhood: fabric stores, restaurants, grocery stores, etc. • A Message Board for attendees • Lost and Found box When: Thursday, 7 pm to 9 pm during • Directions to classes Check-In • Tickets for Early Bird Marketplace and the Portrait Studio Friday through Sunday 8 am to 5 pm Where: Main hallway across from ballroom • Sewing Machine Rentals

ROYAL PARCHMENT • Table reservations for (parties of 8-10 only) for Saturday Night Gala • An assortment of flyers and handouts for all sorts of costume-related events, organizations, and resources. We also serve as a clearing house for those who want to buy and sell tickets for the Saturday Gala, the Sunday Tea, or the L.A. Fabric District Tour. If you have an extra ticket to sell, or are looking for one to buy, we can be the intermediary to help make that happen, as a courtesy service. Reminder: Costume College Memberships, Limited Attendance Classes, and Tours- Costume Safaris may NOT be sold or transferred during College.

One of our most important services is that we have the capability to contact the Dean and Hotel Liaison and other key Costume College people. Come by to ask a question, solve a problem, get a piece of candy, or play a game to get a ribbon!

Sara Bacon, Information Desk Chair Social Media We’re looking forward to seeing you all at Costume College 2018 and all your photos that many of you share on the internet! We’d like to take a moment to make sure that those of you sharing pics for others to see are all using the same hashtags, so other attendees can find your pics.

The official hashtag for this year’s conference is: #CostumeCollege2018

And of course, you may always use the plain #CostumeCollege, though you will get results taken from many different years and not just this year’s event.

For those wondering why we don’t recommend using the hashtag #CoCo or even #CoCo2018 (since they’re way shorter to type), it’s because there are many other non-Costume College related events and personalities that pull up under those generic hashtags (and some are just not safe/friendly for all tastes). So we would appreciate if you could try to use the longer official hashtag(s) and make it easier on those searching for Costume College-related pictures.

If you are already connected to social media, as many of us are in some way, you can find Costume College on the following platforms:

• Facebook (Official Page): https://www.facebook.com/CostumeCollege • Facebook Group – Costume College Year-Round Forum: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1083578265047421/ • Facebook Group – Costume College Theme Inspiration: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1791097224465927/ • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/costumecollege/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/CostumeCollege • Tumblr: http://costumecollege.tumblr.com/ • Google+: https://plus.google.com/106034815648566461671 • Flickr Group (photo sharing): https://www.flickr.com/groups/costumecollege

Rebecca Thelin, Social Media Chair 18 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Mobile app

We will be providing the mobile app again this year. To encourage adoption, it will be available at the same time as the registration booklet, approximately mid-April. The app is available on both Apple and Android stores. It is called “CrowdCompass AttendeeHub” and should be searchable under that name. The app will download to your phone as “AttendeeHub.” Once you install the app, run it and search for our event. It’s hidden, but should show up when you search using the event password, which is “CostumeCollege2018.” No spaces and capitalization matters. Once you find the event, download it and it should become the default event on the app. The app should have all the classes and teacher information. Please keep in mind, other event information might be incomplete, but will be filled in before Costume College starts.

The app allows you to create your own schedule, but you must create an account to save it. You do NOT need to create an account just to browse!

Heather Pritchett, Apps

About Costume College Scholarships Did you know that Costumer’s Guild West, Inc. offers Costume College Scholarships? We know that times can be tough, and we want to help make sure that as many people as possible can attend Costume College, to learn and enjoy all PARCHMENT ROYAL that it has to offer. Skill-based scholarships are awarded as part of Outreach events, including entries from the costume competition at the Los Angeles County Fair and masquerade winners from local conventions.

Essay-based scholarships are awarded by a CGW committee in order to encourage beginning costumers, for service to CGW, or for financial hardship. The application period for CGW Essay Scholarships opens on July 1 and closes on September 1. The link for applications is on our website.

The number of scholarships awarded in a given year is dependent upon the funding available. All proceeds from Bargain Basement, the Early Bird tickets for the Marketplace, and the Gala Raffle go into the CGW Scholarship Fund. We are also grateful to have had generous donations to the Scholarship Fund from members, as well as donations set up in memory of loved ones.

For more scholarship information, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/CostumeCollegeScholarship

- www.costumecollege.net - 19 Caught on Camera

Costume College is all about learning new things and sharing with others. The Caught on Camera display is a quick, easy way to show off your marvelous costumes & accessories. As a matter of fact, this display cannot exist without your participation since Caught on Camera is created using the photos that you provide of the wondrous costumes that you have created.

How many times have you seen costumes in photos and wondered what type of fabric they’re made of? Is it really that shade of blue? Is it textured, brocade, woven, cotton or silk? To answer those questions, and compliment this year’s Bonus Track, Caught on Camera will include a “What’s That Fabric?” section that will have swatches of the actual fabric used to create the costume in the photo!

Everyone is welcome to be a part of the Caught on Camera display by providing photos of yourself in costume individually, or in a small group, from last year’s Costume College, and also from events that you have attended since then, up to the month before this year’s Costume College 2018. Photos should be in focus and I may crop when necessary to show you/your group to your best advantage. ROYAL PARCHMENT Please email your photo to me, Birda, [email protected] I am accepting photos now until about the middle of July before Costume College. Don’t forget to include your name, group or event name (if that applies), and also include the name of the photographer. For upcoming events, remember to ask someone to take a photo of you; then email me your photo for display in Caught on Camera at CoCo!

If you have a fabric swatch available, and wish to have your photo and fabric on display in the “What’s That Fabric?” section, both items (photo & fabric) must be received before June 30, 2018. E-mail the photo of your costume to [email protected] Please advise that you have a small fabric swatch to mail to me for receipt by June 30, 2018. Please also include the type/name of the fabric shown in the photo in your email. Fabric swatches cannot be accepted at CoCo since the display boards are created in advance. I will provide my private mailing address to those who have emailed their request to be included in the “What’s That Fabric?” section. Then, after you are given my private mailing address.

Mail me a small piece of fabric (4” by 4” is plenty) from the costume in the photo. If possible, please include a printed copy of the photo when you mail the fabric to help me to match it to your emailed photo. And don’t forget to include your name, and the place/location/event where you wore your costume.

Please feel free to email me at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Thank you everyone for helping make the Caught on Camera display a colorful, learning experience! When: Friday evening until Sunday evening. Where: Main salon hallway past Information Desk Birda Hussey Nichols, Caught on Camera Chair Who: Students, Teachers, Volunteers

20 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Volunteers

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Castle Staff Volunteers Needed!! Make Way for the Royals!

To put on an event fit for a queen, we need your help. Costume College is an amazing Royal event, but no castle is complete without the staff. Costume College is run entirely by volunteers and you can be apart of it.

Sign up to volunteer an hour at any one of a dozen or so locations during Costume College. It’s simple to do! After you have planned out When: Exact on-site hours to be all your classes and you find yourself with a spare hour or two, please announced later consider volunteering. It’s a great way to meet people and be “part of Where: The Volunteers table will be across the magic” of Costume College. from Information, near the Marketplace Entrance To donate just a little of your time, sign up for time slots here: Who: Anyone interested in helping out! http://coco2018.ivolunteer.com/event_001 .

If you prefer to wait to volunteer until you get to College, stop by the Volunteer station located near Costume College Check-in and Information.

In return for your willingness to help, you will find the Volunteer Table stocked with chocolates for all, and fun extras for those who pre-register to volunteer. There will be Daily Prize Drawings, as well as a final Grand Prize Drawing.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I am more than happy to clarify. We can’t wait to give you a Royal Welcome.

Tana Donaghy, Volunteers Chair

Panic Room

Come visit the Panic Room for a chance to put the finishing touches on your outfit, ask questions, or simply get a second opinion on that Gala or Tea costume. We provide a workspace, iron, and ironing board. Please bring your own sewing machine and notions, as they will not be provided. Water bottles are permitted, but please leave other food and beverages outside — we wouldn’t want an accident to ruin someone’s prized PARCHMENT ROYAL creation!

Check your Program Book at Costume College after you check in for the Panic Room location; we look forward to seeing you.

When: Friday, 7 pm to 11 pm Where: 2nd floor, Ventura III Who: Students, Teachers, Volunteers

- www.costumecollege.net - 21 Class Information

This year’s Bonus Track of What’s That Fabric will hopefully be extremely educational for all students. We’ve put a lot of thought into these classes and want to make sure that every student walks away with the beginning education on all sorts of textiles. In additional to some basic courses on fabric overviews, we have burn testing classes, and most lectures and workshops will be providing swatches for students to take home and reference.

The most exciting addition to this year is the Swatch Book that every student will be receiving upon registration check-in. It will include swatches of natural fibers and synthetic fabrics, identification information, as well as blank templates to add your own swatches and their information. Students will leave college with a great start to creating their own textiles reference book. And hopefully they’ll have fun creating it during the weekend! THE ROYAL PARADE MID-REGISTRATION

Hello all! Tracey Gorin, your friendly Student Liaison here, with an exciting new addition to Limited Attendance registration! As the new Student Liaison last year (and as a long-time student and teacher of Costume College), I noticed that after Registration ends, there are still a number of students who are waiting to get into classes, which still have open slots. While Late Registration serves its purpose to give students a last-minute chance to register for Limited classes, some teachers opt out of Late Registration, because there is not enough time to prepare. Hopefully, Mid-Registration will serve as a stop-gap measure to help students get into the classes they want, and give both students and teachers more time to prepare!

Please note, THIS IS A RACE! Unlike regular registration, Mid-Registration (like Late Registration) is first come- first serve, so it does matter when you submit your request. The form open time (6 am PDT) was carefully chosen to give the most students the best chance to be able to submit for the classes when they want.

Also unlike regular Registration, this process is ELECTRONIC ONLY. Because of the short time frame, no paper forms will be accepted, no mailings will go out, and no checks will be accepted. This process is entirely through email and online forms.

How will it work? After payment closes to pay for your Limited Attendance classes (June 8), an email will go out to all students with a reminder for Mid-Registration, including a link to the registration form to sign up for classes, and a link to the Excel list of available classes and number of spots available.

Each day for seven days, we will follow this process: Starting Monday June 11, the Mid-Registration form opens at 6 am. Students can then go in, choose ONE class that they want to register for. The form closes at 7 pm. That evening, the Student Liaison will go through the list of people who registered, and email everyone who submitted for a class, to either let them know a) they got in, and a link to submit payment (which will be open for the week of Mid-Registration), or b) they didn’t get the class, and please try again tomorrow. Once all the submissions have been answered, the Excel spreadsheet of available slots will be updated. A Facebook reminder will be posted each night when the Excel spreadsheet is updated. Since the link remains the same, students can check the link before submitting for a class each day. Then the next day, the process repeats. The students can each submit for ONE class per day.

At the end of the week, once the deadline for payment closes, updated forms with all the confirmed classes will be emailed out to the students, lists of students with contact info will be emailed to the Limited Attendance teachers, and no more changes will be accepted until Late Registration at Costume College.

22 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Freshman Orientation

Hosted by Jennifer Mulvey and Maegen Hensley

Preparation for your first Costume College is about to begin, but how to get the most out of it beyond what you can read in this book? If this is your first time attending Costume College it can seem overwhelming, with so many things to do, people to meet, classes to take. So, before you start the weekend let us give you a few valuable pointers about what to expect. As two experienced pros, we can answer all of your basic questions, thus enabling you to maximize your Costume College experience.

First, let us introduce ourselves. Jennifer Mulvey: teacher, former CGW Board member, former Committee member, reenactor, costumer, and current Gala Mistress (alongside Gala Master Ed Morlan); and Maegen Hensley: teacher, former CGW President & Board member, Committee member, Dean Emeritus, reenactor, costumer, and current Costume College Assistant Dean — all of which means that we truly have the insider tips!

We aren’t here to read the Registration Book to you, or lull you to sleep with boring details of all its ins and outs — we just want to share some fun, humorous, insightful moments that will lift your spirits and send you bravely on your way.

This event has so much to offer: there are memories and lifelong friends to make, techniques to master, and costumes to swoon over! Whether you’re young or old, male or female, a longtime reenactor or completely new to the world of costuming, we invite you to bring your questions and smiling faces to Freshman Orientation, and then launch yourself fully prepared into a most amazing weekend of new adventures.

“People will stare. Make it worth their while.” Harry Winston PARADE THE ROYAL

When: Friday, 8am Where: Salon F (First floor, near Event Check-In) Who: New students, or anyone who would like some guidance

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L.A. Fabric District Monday, July 30, 2018 9 am - 4 pm We’re changing things up a little this year. By popular demand (and because it makes more sense!), you will sign up for the L.A. FABRIC DISTRICT TOUR much the same way as you will for the other ticketed events, like the Gala and the Sunday Tea. As there are no other classes available on Monday, this tour will not conflict with anything.

The tour will depart the Hotel at promptly 9 am on Monday morning, July 30. We will be whisked (if such a thing is possible in Los Angeles traffic) downtown in a luxurious air-conditioned bus complete with restroom facilities and luggage storage

THE ROYAL PARADE for all the wonderful purchases you will make (or for your actual luggage if you are heading to the airport directly from downtown.) After you have exhausted yourself (and your wallet) the bus will depart downtown promptly at 4 pm and do the aforementioned whisking back to the hotel. Water and snacks will be provided on the bus.

Once you have registered for the tour, you will receive an advance copy of the tour guide book listing the locations of fabric, trims, beads, ribbons, laces, sewing supplies, and other shiny objects; and will include a map of the area showing the locations of eateries, restrooms and the all-important ATMs. This will give you the opportunity to plan your shopping strategy in advance! An up-to-the-minute hard copy will be provided when you board the bus.

If this is your first time in Los Angeles, be prepared to have your mind completely blown! There is nothing like the Los Angeles Fabric District ... not even in New York! The selections of fabrics and supplies defies description.

NOTE: This tour involves lots of walking. Wear comfortable shoes, a sun hat and sun-screen. Please be aware that not all locations are handicap-accessible.

So, start saving up now to take advantage of all the wonderful bargains you’ll find. Seasoned shoppers and novices are welcome. See you there! If you have any questions, you can reach me at [email protected] or by calling (818) 956- 1303.

Natalie Meyer Chair, Tours-L.A. Fabric District

Sign-up between April 7, 2018 and June 8, 2018. Price $35 To sign-up please go to https://tinyurl.com/2018TourLAFabricDistrict A convenience fee of 5.5% will be added if paying with a debit/credit card. If paying by check, please print a copy of your email confirmation and mail with check to: Costume College Programming 444 Piedmont Ave., #220 Glendale, CA 91206 Please make check payable to CGW, Inc. Payment must be received by June 8, 2018. This is an in-hand deadline; a postmark will not count.

24 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Tours

Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) Friday, July 27, 2018 9 am - 3 pm The Friday FIDM tour is perennially popular, and Costume College members who attend this year will be treated to a private, behind-the- scenes tour of their study collection and the new Helen Larson collection exhibit. This year, in keeping with our Royal theme, you’ll see clothing and costumes worn by the kings and queens of the big screen!

We’ll have snacks and water aboard the tour bus. Please wear street clothes and comfortable shoes, and bring a notepad to record your inspirations. Note that attendance is limited to 30 people and that photography will be restricted on some parts of this tour. Also, some parts of this tour are not wheelchair-accessible. If you have questions about accessibility, please contact Tours and Transportation at [email protected].

The visit to FIDM itself will be approximately 2 hours long, not including travel time. You will have the opportunity to shop at the Scholarship Store, where fabric, trims, finished garments, and costume jewelry are available at discounted prices. Items for sale have been donated to FIDM by clothing and textile manufacturers, so selections will be random, but fabulous!

Please review the tour section of the Limited Attendance form before scheduling your Friday classes, so you don’t inadvertently double-book yourself.

Mary Llewellyn Chair, Tours-Costume Safaris THE ROYAL PARADE THE ROYAL

The Fine Print If unforeseen circumstances result in the cancellation of a venue, we reserve the right to substitute a location of equal interest to Costume College students. We will provide as much advance notification as possible. Tours not receiving a minimum number of students may be cancelled. If you have any questions, please contact the Tours and Transportation Coordinator, Mary Llewellyn Saunders, at [email protected].

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Fashionable 18th C. Half-boned Stays with Straps Drape a Basic Bodice Workshop c.1860s 9:00am-5:00pm 8 hrs Limited 9:00am-5:00pm 8 hrs Limited J.P. Ryan Feather Tippetts Lana Lily Class Type: Workshop Fee: $95 Class Type: Workshop Fee: $16 Level: Intermediate Level: Intermediate In the 18th century, stays were worn to reshape the upper female Do you have a hard time fitting patterns or wish you could create torso into the conical ideal. High fashion stays with shoulder your own bodice pattern? Come learn how to create a custom straps were designed to create a straight, rigid line from bosom pattern using professional draping techniques. Students will to naval, compress and widen the bosom, narrow the back and learn to how to drape a basic mid-Victorian bodice pattern onto elongate and reduce the waistline. In this workshop, each student a live model. Techniques applicable to most time periods. will work with JP Ryan to custom fit their stays pattern. Body Teacher provides: Twill fabric, pins, marking pen, handout. measurements will be compared to the pattern, adjustments will Student provides: Must have a Victorian Corset that fits, Quality be made and a personalized fitting pattern will be constructed. fabric scissors capable of cutting at the tip. FRIDAY Once fitting pattern is approved, each student will continue on with stays construction, marking and stitching casings, boning and lining. Go Big or Go Home! How to transport your large costumes Teacher provides: Pattern and materials to make fitting pattern and props. and one set of stays per student, binding not included. Patterns 9:00am-10:00am 1 hrs Unlimited are available from size 8 — size 22 only. One size per pattern, one Air Bubbles Cosplay pattern per student. Participant pattern sizes will be required Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 prior to workshop please. Please visit my website for a pattern Level: All size chart and order to your largest personal measurement. Planes, trains and automobiles, oh my! Not all forms of Student provides: White or ivory thread, large plain white t-shirt transportation are friendly to our larger projects, but the good or shift to wear for fitting, fabric scissors and paper scissors, tape news is... We can make them! Let’s talk shop about how to measure, pins and pin cushion, seam ripper, sewing machine transport large props and costumes safely and without worry! with extra needles for heavy fabric, washable or disappearing Air Bubbles has transported a 6 ft pair of wings on an airplane. marker, Fray-check, ruler, pencil and French curve for pattern Come join and find out how! corrections, clear cello-tape, tracing paper and tracing wheel Teacher provides: Hand Out optional for marking casings. Student provides: Questions!

Effective Use of Props and Accessories for Photos Pretty Prints: The 18th century consumer’s fancy 9:00am-10:00am 1.5 hrs Limited 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited Andrew Schmidt Deah Sperling Schmidt Angela Burnley Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All Level: All Fans and purses and canes, oh my! A presentation of the effective The world of historic printed textiles can be overwhelming at use of props and accessories in portrait photography from the best. Exploring new insights into the diversity and availability archives of shots at Costume College over the last 8 years. of printed textiles by drawing on our own primary research, this Teacher provides: guidance lecture will seek to formulate an understanding of the variety Student provides: Nothing and complexity of the printed textiles available to the average consumer. As a bonus following the lecture, Angela will be happy to evaluate any textiles you might want to bring that you are not sure about or want more guidance as to where and how they should be used. Teacher provides: power point lecture Student provides: student may bring a piece or pieces of fabric for evaluation at end of lecture. 26 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Drafting Patterns from Grid Diagrams 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited Jane Cadieux Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0 Level: Intermediate Have you always wanted to use the patterns drawn on grids in costuming books but didn’t know how? Re-drawing pattern Fundamentals of Pattern Grading pieces from a tiny diagram can be an intimidating prospect, but 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited with a few handy tools, it can be quite easy. This class will be an Beth Grover overview on how it’s done. I will demonstrate the basic approach Class Type: Lecture Fee: $1 for handout by drawing out a simple pattern, and then provide some insights Level: Intermediate for working with more advanced shapes. This class will explore the principles of how the body changes Teacher provides: Nothing size and how to translate that into different sized patterns. Student provides: Nothing We will primarily be looking at a modern misses’ size sloper, but the concept and principles can be applied to plus sizes, menswear, and children’s wear. We will explore both how the apparel industry grades their clothing sizes and how you can do a custom grade at home. The class will start with the basics Cosplay 101: Getting started with a character of pattern grading, but familiarity with basic garment sewing is 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited recommended. Maryann Jones Teacher provides: Handouts Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Student provides: Nothing Level: All This class will look at all the factors you need to consider in finding a character, determining your genre, and designing a costume St. Birgitta Cap Teacher provides: Information 9:00am-11:00am 2 hrs Limited Student provides: Nothing Mary Dotson Class Type: Workshop Fee: $5 Level: All Hand sew a woman’s cap in a style popular between the 13th and 15th century.

Making a Regency Gown from a Sari Teacher provides: linen cap pieces, thread and instructions FRIDAY 9:00am-11:00am 2 hrs Limited Student provides: pins, needles, beeswax, scissors, and hand Diane Yoshitomi sewing needles. Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0 Level: Intermediate Regency gowns can range from utterly plain to wildly elaborate, laden with hand-stitched & 3-dimensional trimmings. The Hand Stitches Used in Millinery modern shortcut to a fabulous Regency gown is to make it from 9:00am-11:30am 2.5 hrs Limited a gorgeously hued, exotically printed Indian sari. At 5+ yards, Mela Hoyt-Heydon a sari provides ample fabric and built-in embellishment with its Class Type: Workshop 2-sided border and matching decorative palla. This lecture/ Fee: $20.00 for a prepared kit demo will present period images of simple and elaborate gowns, Level: Intermediate as well as finished examples of the teacher’s own sari-born Each student will create a sample book which shows the standard creations, and will conclude with a demonstration of how to hand stitches used by milliners and hatters along with notation place pattern pieces for maximum effect. on when each stitch is best used. These will include several ways Teacher provides: handout; saris & patterns for demo to attach wire based upon the base material, how to join 2 pieces Student provides: sari (if in possession of one) for pattern of fur felt together, the millinery stab stitch, how to hem a cut plotting edge, rolled hem for sheer fabric trimmings and sweatband insertion. Teacher provides: A prepared kit which includes all materials each student will need to execute each hand stitch and and labeled paperwork on which to attach each sample. Student provides: small scissors for thread cutting and a thimble if they are used to using one. All other items will be provided.

- www.costumecollege.net - 27 Does This Make My Butt Look Big Enough? Perfect Corset Binding 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited Elizabeth Gerds Cathy Hay Cynthia Settje Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All Level: All Pads, hoops, bustles, paniers -- from the 1500s to the 1900s Your corset or stays are almost finished — except for the padding and structures were used to create the fashionable *&$%ing binding, which is an exercise in frustration for shape for women’s dress. This class is an overview of what you so many of us. Cathy and Cynthia team up to show you the need to look your best in big skirts. counterintuitive secret to making it easy, how to get fabulous Teacher provides: Nothing handsewn results around those curves and corners (even those FRIDAY Student provides: Nothing tricky tabs on stays), AND how it’s done at speed by machine, with NO pinning, in a professional costume shop. Teacher provides: Nothing Heirloom Sewing Techniques on the Machine Student provides: Nothing 9:00am-12:00pm 3 hrs Limited Natalie Meyer Class Type: Workshop Fee: $8 Level: All Learn machine sewing techniques for reproducing heirloom Dyeing Fabric: Getting the Color You Want quality garments including insertion lace, entredeux, french 9:00am-12:00pm 3 hrs Limited seams and more. Diana Rotheneder Teacher provides: Fabric, Lace, Entredeux, thread and hand Class Type: Workshop Fee: $25 outs. Level: All Student provides: Sewing Machine, scissors, fabric marking Don’t you hate it when you find the perfect fabric, but the color pen, basic, pins is wrong for your project? This class will walk you through fabric types, appropriate dyes to use for each kind, and color mixing. This will be a lecture and workshop where you will get to see firsthand how you can easily dye fabric to the color you want. Magic Bias Slip Teacher provides: All materials for the class, including handout. 9:00am-1:30pm 4.5 hrs Limited Student provides: Note-taking materials. Wear dark or old Margaret Monos clothes or an apron. Student can also bring their own fabric Class Type: Workshop Fee: $35 samples to use for practice. Level: Intermediate Create a 1930’s slip to wear not only under your 1930’s creations but really any vintage wear. We will use a pattern from the 1930’s which allows you to make a beautiful bias slip without any sewing Care and Feeding of Silk on the bias. This creation will be constructed with straight 10:00am-11:00am 1 hrs Unlimited machine sewing and a little hand sewing. At the end of the class, Katrina Homer you should have either a completed bias slip or one that is partly Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 finished. Level: All Teacher provides: Handouts, pattern, fabric, thread Bring your questions regarding silk fabric and learn how to care Student provides: Sewing machine, needles for machine and for and maintain this luscious fabric. hand sewing needles, tool for marking fabric (student’s choice), Teacher provides: Handouts scissors for both fabric and paper, seam ripper (just in case), Student provides: Nothing basic sewing kit

28 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Be a Poser: Basics for Presenting Oneself Well “Familiar Turned Strange” The Gothic Influence in 19th 10:00am-11:30am 1 hrs Limited Century Fashion Andrew Schmidt Deah Sperling-Schmidt 10:30am-12:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Class Type: Workshop Fee: $1 Meg Horan Level: All Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Costumers have stepped into my lights and asked me to tell them Level: All what to do, how to pose. The perfect pose depends on a lot of The Gothic Novel has often been seen as a lowbrow literary things and might take some time to discover — something that genre, but this class will explore its effect on mainstream fashion isn’t always possible at CoCo. But there are some basics that can and beauty standards of the early and mid-19th century. produce an acceptable image no matter what costume you’re Teacher provides: nothing wearing. We’ll begin with a discussion of some fundamentals Student provides: nothing and a brief slide presentation. Attendees will then have the opportunity to step into the lights and put those fundamentals to work, using a mirror and shots displayed on my laptop to Introduction to Foam Fabrication and Costuming connect feel with look. 10:30am-11:30am 1 hrs Unlimited Teacher provides: guidance Malaki Keller Christina Stroffolino Student provides: Nothing Class Type: Lecture Fee: $2 Level: All Have you ever wanted to make that huge elaborate Halloween OMG...This Has Pockets! part 1: Patch pocket costume? Tired of cardboard and hot glue creations that don’t 10:30am-12:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited last? Then let Malaki and Christina introduce you to the incredible Kristine Scott Sosa world of foam! This versatile and amazingly underrated material Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $2 is the solution to all your needs! Make anything from medieval Level: All armor to giant robots; even lightweight props are no problem. All things patch pockets! Learn how to add a pocket to any This lengthy discussion will cover the basics as well as the garment including embellishments, inspiration, and shapes. advanced. Bring note taking materials and your questions — all Teacher provides: Handout with instructions, multiple pocket will be revealed! shape patterns. Inspiration! Teacher provides: Handouts and examples of work Student provides: nothing Student provides: Note taking stuff

Demystifying Digitizing Faking It: How to look historical for those with alternative FRIDAY 10:30am-11:30am 1 hrs Unlimited aesthetics. Denise Hendrick 10:30am-11:30am 1 hrs Unlimited Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Laura Rubin Level: All Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Excited by machine embroidery, but wondering how to create Level: All your own designs? What is digitizing, anyway? In this class You’re a modern person, in a modern body, trying to look like Denise will show you the basics of going from a picture of a design something other than your normal self. But how do you cope to a file that is ready to stitch out on your machine. She will cover if you’ve got fancy colored hair, tattoos, piercings, and other which software programs she uses, how to edit designs, and how outlandish looks? Laura covers some of the tips, techniques, to avoid common errors, with plenty of time to ask questions. and tricks for accessorizing the costume of your dreams without Teacher provides: Nothing sacrificing your modern looks. Student provides: Nothing Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: Notetaking materials

- www.costumecollege.net - 29 It’s Getting Hot in Here! Making Royal Orders 10:30am-11:30am 1 hrs Unlimited 11:00am-12:00pm 1 hrs Limited T.lynn Gomez Rebecca Maiten Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $+o Class Type: Workshop Fee: $8 Level: All Level: All FIRE is your friend, let’s HEAT it up! Learn techniques and Royal Orders are bestowed by the head of a currently or formerly tools to transform fabrics and other costume materials. sovereign royal family, and are worn as brooches and/or sashes Teacher provides: All tools and materials with formal dress. In this class, you will be making a generic Student provides: nothing royal order brooch (and optional sash), so that you can wear it to the Gala on Saturday night. Examples of royal orders can be found on my pinterest board: https://www.pinterest.com/ theladyrebecca/royal-orders/ Ribbon Cockade Shoe Clips Teacher provides: A variety of the metal badge portions of the 11:00am-1:00pm 2 hrs Limited royal orders, pin backs Elizabeth Emerson Student provides: 1 yd of 2-3” wide ribbon (I recommend moire Class Type: Workshop Fee: $15 ribbon, which can be purchased here: http://stores.ebay.com/ Level: Intermediate The-Ribbon-Store). If you also want to make a sash, you will This class will go over the basics of ribbon rosette construction. need app 3 yd of the ribbon total, depending on your size. Also, Students will be provided with their selection of ribbon colors a glue gun with extra glue sticks, and pinking shears. Optional: to make coordinating shoe clips, with a focus on various periods acrylic paint and very tiny detail brushes if you would like to add and what is historically accurate. This can also be used for other details on your order medallion. techniques such as removable millinery clips. Teacher provides: Each student will received a kit with instructions, pins, needles, thread, pin board, as well as their 18th Century Petticoat Construction own selection of fine ribbons to choose from 11:00am-3:00pm 4 hrs Limited FRIDAY Student provides: Please note students need to be familiar Mary Johns with basic stitches, and preferably some experience with ribbon Class Type: Workshop Fee: $1 manipulation. Thimble and notebook recommended Level: Beginners Students will learn period techniques of assembling a outer or under petticoat. Machines may be used if desired, but hand stitches and techniques will be taught. Students will leave with a Chicken Scratch Embroidery partially completed petticoat. 11:30am-1:30pm 2 hrs Limited Teacher provides: Handout Kristin Stonham Student provides: Petticoat material, twill tape for ties, hand Class Type: Workshop Fee: $20 sewing kit (snips, thread (hand sewing if by hand), wax, needles, Level: All measuring tape, thimble. Sewing machine if desired. Gussy up your gingham! Known also as poor man’s lace or Amish lace, chicken scratch embroidery was at its most popular from the 1930s to 1950s. Come learn this simple technique and expand your options! Teacher provides: Embroidery hoop, needle, embroidery So You Want to Publish a Book, Eh? thread, fabric. 11:30am-12:30pm 1 hr Unlimited Student provides: Scissors Lauren Stowell, Abby Cox, Kendra Van Cleave Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All What does it take to publish a book on historical costuming in today’s world? In this panel discussion, Lauren Stowell, Abby Cox, and Kendra Van Cleave will give their different perspectives on publishing their works, with Q&A, behind-the- scenes stories, advice on getting starting, and encouragement in pursuing your own published dreams. Teacher provides: Join Kendra, Abby and Lauren for a book signing. Student provides: Bring your copies of ”18th Century Hair & Wig Styling” and ”The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking” or a grab a copy at the event.

30 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Looking at the Real Thing: Object research 101 11:30am-1:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Carolyn Dowdell Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All Ever wished you could see your historical fashion Pinterest finds in person but thought it impossible? Fear not! This lecture provides an introduction to the study of surviving historical garments, specifically those in museum collections, based on extensive personal experience (examination of 500+ extant pieces from the 17th through 21st centuries). The talk will cover everything from how to get museums to let you into their collections, what you can expect to find there, the different ways different museums/collections work, organizational suggestions to help you maximize your time, tips for taking useful photographs and how to make museums want you back! Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: Nothing

History and Making of Bobbin Lace 11:30am-1:30pm 2 hrs Unlimited Tracey Spencer Class Type: Lecture Fee: $2 Level: All Lace can be delicate, costly and sometimes restricted. Oh, how coveted it was! In this class you will learn about the history of Serving the Royals lace, the different types and where they come from, its many uses 11:30am-12:30pm 1 hr Unlimited and stories of the lacemakers. All the while you will see a piece Tonya Clevenger Sandra Maxwell of lace being created. You will learn about the tools of the trade Class Type: Lecture Fee: $1 for handouts and where you to find them. There will be samples of various lace Level: All FRIDAY for you to examine. There will be handout with a list of suppliers At one time royalty as well as the rich measured their social and guilds. acceptability in terms of the number of servants they employed. Teacher provides: Handouts Come learn about the lives of those who served. Student provides: Nothing Teacher provides: possible handouts Student provides: note taking materials

Man-Milliner: The world of Charles Frederick Worth 12:00pm-2:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited Buckram and Wire Hat Frame Demo Adam Lid 12:00pm-2:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Gina Lovin Level: All Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $1 This class will give an overview of Charles Worth and his Level: All influence on the development of haute couture and the fashion See how to make a buckram bonnet frame. This class should industry in general during the mid to late 19th Century. Focus help you feel comfortable working with buckram when making will center on both Worth’s designs and Worth’s influence to bonnets and hats. It will show the basic flat materials and the growth of fashion industry along with their social, political, how to put them together to form a sturdy 3-D form. Written and cultural context. Worth’s innovations will be examined in instructions and inspiration will be provided. detail and compared to the works of his contemporaries and Teacher provides: Printed handout and samples of buckram & conclude with a look at his legacy. wire Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: pen to take notes Student provides: Nothing

- www.costumecollege.net - 31 Dressing the Silhouette 1770-1910 Josephine’s Coronation Slippers part 1: 12:00pm-2:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited Gold bullion embroidery Jennifer Rosbrugh 12:00pm-3:30pm 3.5 hrs Limited Models: Vanessa Wood, Tracey Gorin, Breanna Maxine, Kathryn Wolters Maegen Hensley, Joy Flasher, Diane Yoshitomi, Carolyn Class Type: Workshop Fee: $30 Runnells Level: All Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Students will learn the basics of gold bullion embroidery while Level: All embroidering a pair of initials which will be later appliqued onto What is underneath those clothes?? In this class, we’ll take a shoes or other items of clothing look at the various layers that produce fashionable silhouettes Teacher provides: gold or silver bullions , metal cords, all from seven eras: 1770s, Regency, Romantic Era, Civil War, Late foundation materials, threads, felt , needles, bullion work Bustle, 1890s and Edwardian. Using live models, we’ll discuss surface, beeswax, and handouts with the decsription of the each garment layer made in appropriate fabrics from chemise stitches & corset to finished ensemble with accessories. A comparison Student provides: scissors that they are willing to sacrifice for between each era’s styles will be presented as we go through the cutting or metal threads and bullion, basic sewing kit every article of clothing. Come see this visual 3-D fashion history lesson! Teacher provides: Live models with period reproduction fashions Student provides: Note-taking materials and camera, if desired

Every Dagger needs a Leather Sheath! Basic leather sewing and tooling FRIDAY 12:00pm-3:00pm 3 hrs Limited Ed Morlan Jennifer Mulvey Class Type: Workshop Fee: 60 Level: All In this class you will receive a dagger (yes‚ you get a dagger! no it’s not sharp) and then with a basic leather stitch you will create a sheath for it to go in. We will help you learn the saddle stitch to create your sheath, dye it and even decorate it a bit if time permits. When you are done, you will have a snazzy dagger and What’s That Fabric? sheath to go with your costume. You never know when a rogue 12:30pm-2:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Prince or Princess might need saving and now you will be ever Diana Rotheneder at the ready! Class Type: Lecture Fee: $2 for handout Teacher provides: Dagger, Needles, Thread, Leather for Level: All sheath, tooling stamps and items needed to borrow for class Is it organza or organdy? Satin or sateen? Velvet or velveteen? time, and dye How can you tell??? It can be daunting to try to choose a fabric Student provides: 2 pair of pliers. Any leather tooling you have for your historical project. Fabrics come in many different fibers and want to try out. and weaves. But what are they and when should you use them? This class will answer that question and more. We will explore the main fabric types, a myriad of weaves, and all the terms you Fibers & Weaves need to find what you want. We will mostly cover natural fibers 12:30pm-1:30pm 2 hrs Unlimited for historic costuming and samples will be shown. Patricia Sova Teacher provides: Nothing Lecture Fee: $0 Class Type: Student provides: Nothing Level: Beginner Fibers are to fabrics as potatoes are to French fries. Weaves are to fabrics as baking is to baked potatoes. There will be a brief overview of burn testing to find fiber content, and then we will The History of Polyester discuss how to identify the fabrics’ different weaves. 1:00pm-2:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Teacher provides: Nothing Sandy Manning Student provides: Note taking materials Class Type: Lecture Fee: None Level: All This is a brief summary of the history of polyester from its first patent to today. It is easy to find fabrics mixed with a bit of polyester to keep them wrinkle free. Teacher provides: Information Student provides: note taking materials.

32 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Perfect Project 1:30pm-2:30pm 1 hrs Unlimited Karen Fox Class Type: Lecture Fee: None Level: All Every project goes through predictable stages of development and your sanity, happiness, and emotional well-being is tied up with every stage. Raise awareness of your emotional processes around projects using a mental health model and learn tips and techniques to move thru the agony and the ecstasy! Teacher provides: Handouts Student provides: Nothing Ombre Cockade Fan Workshop Class 1:00pm-5:00pm 4 hrs Limited Lynn McMasters Gail Nichols Class Type: Workshop Fee: $25 Myths, Truths, & Snark Surrounding Head Necklaces Level: Intermediate 1:30pm-2:30pm 1 hrs Unlimited In this class students will mark, cut, fold and glue folded silk to Trystan Bass a set of cockade fan sticks. They will also create a gold wire and Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 chain closure that works with the tassel ring to keep the fan open Level: All or closed. Maybe you’ve seen them in the movies and wondered, “did Teacher provides: Kit which includes; stiffened silk, wire, women really wear a big old chunk of jewelry across their chain and peach tree wood sticks. foreheads in ye olden days?” Maybe, but maybe not. There Student provides: are certain times and places when this mythical accessory can 1) Paper and detail fabric scissors. be considered historically accurate, and there are many ways 2) Glue brush and a small lidded container for the glue. to make a ferronnière look like a cheap necklace plopped on 3)A tassel or tassel set with a long twist cord (6” loop) If you a woman’s head. Let’s examine the rights and wrongs of head can’t find such a tassel then bring a spool of thread to match necklaces! your tassel so the cord can be extended or replaced. Or, make a Teacher provides: nothing 12‚Äù cord before class following the instructions here http:// Student provides: nothing lynnmcmasters.com/Tasselspart1.html. If you are making your fan for Regency or Romantic Era you do not need to bring a tassel they did not add wristbands or tassels on their fans from FRIDAY this time period. Make a Fabulous Beaded Bead Hatpin or Pendant 4)A frixion erasable ballpoint pen or a fine chalk mechanical 1:30pm-5:00pm 3.5 hrs Limited pencil. Susan McDonald 5) A long fine hand sewing needle. Class Type: Workshop Fee: $15 The silk comes in three different colors. There will be a choice Level: All between; yellow green to olive green, cream to gold, cream to This session will teach the technique for making a “beaded red. Some of the choices are limited so, a cream tassel might be bead,” which may then be used as the focal point for a hatpin, or the best color but in any case it very easy to switch out tassel sets may become a lovely pendant. at any time. Teacher provides: Instructor will provide a handout, plus all of the beads, thread, and beading needles required to make a beaded bead. The student has the option to select a hatpin or have their finished bead mounted on an eye-pin to make a pendant. Using Stencils and Paint to Embellish Fabric Student provides: Nothing 1:30pm-5:00pm 3.5 hrs Limited Lia Hansen Class Type: Workshop Fee: $40 Level: All Can’t find the motif you’re looking for? You can create any motif you want with stencils and paint. Class will use these materials to practice stenciling on fabric and ribbon. Practical applications include re-creating prints that are no longer produced. Teacher provides: Painting supplies Student provides: 1/2 yard pre-washed, non-pile, light-colored fabric, 1 yard of pre-washed, light-colored 2” wide satin ribbon, push pins, and a blow dryer to speed the drying process.

- www.costumecollege.net - 33 Fabric Sourcing Tips and Tricks Fabrics in SPACE! 2:00pm-3:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited 2:00pm-3:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Maegen Hensley Heather Hofshi Class Type: Lecture Class Type: Lecture Fee: $1 Fee: $1 for handout / swatches will be free Level: All Level: All Come learn about about the fabrics of the future, from hi-tech Some quick tips on how to source fabrics for your project fabrics used in spacesuits, to new materials and advances that including a list of vendors with specialty items, a list of downtown will take us from the runway to Mars and beyond. LA stores and who provides the best what, and some information Teacher provides: Handouts and samples on creating your own fabrics. Student provides: Nothing Teacher provides: Handouts Student provides: Nothing Styling Historical Hair for Days 2:00pm-3:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Dressed in Diamonds: American Princesses & Gilded Age Jenny-Rose White Fashion Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $2 2:00pm-3:30pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Level: All Kevin Jones So you want fabulous hair all day, every day for a multi-day Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 costume event like Costume College but you don’t want to Level: All pack a suitcase full of wigs? Hair is the finishing touch for Power-Point presentation discussing five American heiresses any ensemble, but styling your own can seem overwhelming, and their fashion influences after marrying into the British especially when multiplied by several looks over multiple days. Aristocracy in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Learn professional hairstyling tricks — prepping, products and Teacher provides: Nothing techniques — to achieving the perfect hairstyle, having it stay in Student provides: Nothing

FRIDAY place for hours and switching styles from costume to costume, and day to day. Teacher provides: Handout Student provides: Note taking materials The New “Sumptuary” Laws 2:00pm-3:30pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Natalie Meyer Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 The Wardrobe of Mary, Queen of Scots Unlocked Level: All 2:30pm-3:30pm 1 hrs Unlimited In the middle ages and the Renaissance era Sumptuary Laws were Trystan Bass designed to protect the upper classes. Now they are designed Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 to protect endangered species. Learn what accessories nearly Level: All caused extinction of some species and how to get man made Born in Scotland, raised in France, executed in England, materials to accessorize without getting arrested. Marie Stuart’s life is the stuff of legends, but surprisingly few Teacher provides: Hand out of material sources contemporary images of her exist. What she wore has been Student provides: Note taking material the source of conjecture for artists over the centuries and now for filmmakers. Her cousin Elizabeth’s wardrobe has been extensively examined, so let’s give equal time to the enigmatic Mary. Teacher provides: nothing Student provides: nothing

The First Women to Fly — and What They Wore 2:30pm-4:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Linda Abrams Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All Stories of the independent, adventurous and often quirky women who took to the skies in the very earliest days of aviation (1909 - WWI), even before Amelia Earhart. Reports of their flights often featured, or even focused on, what they wore! Teacher provides: Student provides:

34 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - OMG...This Has Pockets! part 2: Side seam pocket 3:00pm-4:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Kristine Sosa Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $1 Level: Beginners In this class learn how to install a pocket into anything with a side seam, including a pocket with a zipper. The class will disuss working with woven and knit, stabilizing fabric for pockets, lining pockets, an putting a closure ie: snap, button and loop to close pockets. Pocket pattern provided. Teacher provides: Handout, pocket pattern Student provides: nothing

Modern Techniques in Corsetry: a case study 3:00pm-4:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Joni Steinmann Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Gold in Detail: Intro to goldwork workshop Level: All 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Limited The class will use my 2018 Foundations Revealed competition The Lady Detalle entry as a design case study to explore several modern materials Class Type: Workshop Fee: $25 and techniques used in corsetry today. The class will aim to Level: Intermediate give the whole design story of the corset but focus on material Add some sparkly gold detail to your next project! Come join choice and embellishing methods. It will briefly touch on the us for a workshop that will introduce you to the wonderful construction of the corset itself and the silk dye method used. world of gold work -- an embroidery skill perfect for detailing However the main focus of the lecture will be on digital printed special occasion gowns and accessories from any century! We fabric, laser cutting and the use of thermo-plastics like Worbla will go over the basics of couching gold work (gold passing), and Fosshape. The class will also include a section about 3D embroidery skills, how to properly work with, start, sew and printing and using electronics in your designs. finish, some sources, inspiration and practice. Each student Teacher provides: Nothing will create their own goldwork sampler, practicing the proper Student provides: Nothing methods. Goldwork can be used in embroidery samplers, in accessories or to add stunning detail to a reproduction historical gown creation Come join in the fun! FRIDAY Teacher provides: Handouts and Goldwork Kit: Gold passing, Frilly Frippery: The Flowers Underneath Thread, Embroidery Needle, Fabric w/ design 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Limited Student provides: Required: small embroidery scissors, thimble, Elizabeth Emerson wax, and an embroidery hoop size 8”. Highly recommend an Class Type: Workshop Fee: 20 embroidery SEAT frame hoop for best results (both hands free) Level: Beginners — Elbesee is good brand,. (Please note: must be 8” hoop - other This class will focus on the making of small multi-petaled sizes will not fit the design/fabric). Highly recommend bringing ribbonwork flowers. These will then be clustered and sewn onto small pointed end tweezers if you have them. a buckram base for addition to other projects. These types of embellishments are perfect for lingerie, chemises, or anywhere a delicate accent is desired. Teacher provides: A kit will be provided to each student. This Pomatum or Hairspray: Achieving 18th century hair will be complete with multiple lengths of antique silk and rayon 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited ribbons in a variety of styles. Students will also be able to choose Jenny-Rose White Abby Cox several yards of their choice at the class. Instructions, pins, pin Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 boards, needles, buckram, and thread will all be provided in the Level: All kits To hairspray or not to hairspray — it’s a question we ask ourselves Student provides: Fabric swatches if color match or at every costume event. Join Abby Cox (American Duchess) & coordination is important. Thimble and notebook Jenny-Rose White (JennyLaFleur) as they explore how women of the 18th century managed to defy follicle gravity, and how we can recreate the same looks today. Abby will demonstrate how to use traditional pomatum and powder, and Jenny-Rose will show how to use modern hair products to achieve the same c1770s hairstyle! Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: Note Taking Materials

- www.costumecollege.net - 35 Troubleshooting Your Sewing Machine 3:30pm-5:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Meg Horan Lisa Stuart Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All This class will demonstrate techniques to have your machine running smoothly every time you sew. Learn to spot and correct many machine issues before they slow or even ruin your projects. Teacher provides: Handout Student provides: Nothing

Learn Boutis Provencal 3:30pm-5:00pm 1.5 hrs Limited Natalie Meyer Class Type: Workshop Fee: $7 Level: All Learn the art of Boutis Provencial Embelishment. Similar to Trapunto, it provides a raised pattern on the outside of your fashion fabric without cutting the back layer or stuffing it with cotton. Teacher provides: Fabric, thread, needle Student provides: 6 - 10 inch embroidery hoop, thimble (if you use one), scissors FRIDAY

The King of Fashion: Paul Poiret and his world 3:30pm-5:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Aristocratic Acquisitions: Royal Dress in the FIDM Museum Adam Lid Collection, 16th to 20th Century Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 3:30pm-5:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Level: All Kevin Jones This class will give an overview of Paul Poiret’s designs from Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 1900 through 1914 to include the key elements that influenced Level: All fashion in general during this period as well as the social, Power-Point presentation revealing magnificent acquisitions of political, and cultural context of the period. Poiret’s innovations clothing with royal lineages dating from the 16th to 20th century will be examined in detail and compared to the works of his in the FIDM Museum Collection. contemporaries and will conclude with a look at his legacy. Teacher provides: Nothing Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: Nothing Student provides: Nothing

Making Bias-Cut Short Hose 4:00pm- 5:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Rebecca Lowell The History of the Mannequins from the 15th Century. Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 4:00pm-5:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Level: All Sandy Manning Learn how to construct bias cut short hose, suitable for Class Type: Lecture Fee: None reenactment personas from the 13th - 17th centuries. We’ll begin Level: All with creating duct tape patterns with a partner, then transferring This survey class covers the history of mannequins beginning the patterns to paper, then sewing and fitting the hose. This with the origins in 15th century to the modern ones seen in JC class requires basic sewing knowledge. Beyond the ability to Penny’s and Sears. See how they started from small dolls used sew, either by machine or by hand, everything else will be taught to show fashion to 1900 when they began to be used to display in class. Students will have finished hose and patterns to reuse at clothing in stores, to now. home. More advanced sewers may finish early. Teacher provides: Information Teacher provides: nothing Student provides: Pens and papers. Student provides: nothing

36 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Josephine’ s Coronation Slippers part 2: Pattern & Cover a Buckram Hat/Bonnet Making Regency slippers 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Limited 9:00am-3:00pm 6 hrs Limited Diane Yoshitomi Kathryn Wolters Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0 Class Type: Workshop Fee: $55 Level: All Level: Intermediate Learn how easy it is to create a perfectly fitted pattern for your Students will learn to make a pair of Regency ladies shoes based purchased buckram-and-wire hat or bonnet. Teacher will on a pair of slippers belonging to the Empress Josephine provide samples of her own creations, along with useful tips on Teacher provides: patterns, choice of black or ivory satin outer how to apply the cut fabric and trims to their new base. fabric---inner lining --and lining--as well as leather for the soles Teacher provides: nothing of the shoes, and leather sewing machine needles Student provides: nothing Student provides: sewing machine, basic sewing kit. If student took the bullion embroidery class, they need to have the 2 finished embroidered intials to put on their shoes.

The Essential 16th-century Custom-Fitted Smock 9:00am-5:00pm 8 hrs Limited Julie Fox Class Type: Workshop Fee: $50 Level: Intermediate The most basic, yet deceivingly complicated of all 16th-century foundation pieces from a fitting perspective, is the basic smock. Students will learn how to flat draft their smock from their own measurements with the focus on individual fitting needs and adaptations for plus size body types. Students will draft, cut and sew and hopefully finish their smock and also learn seam finishing techniques along the way. Teacher provides: Lightweight linen for smock, pattern paper, sewing instructions and information on variations, and finished samples. Student provides: Sewing machine with regular feet, white thread, basic sewing kit (fabric shears, seam rippers, pins, hand

sewing needles, fabric marking pen or chalk, tape measure), Saturday 2-inch wide clear plastic “quilter’s ruler” and pencil with an eraser for drafting and note taking.

Identifying Silk Fabrics Shocking: The world of Elsa Schiaparelli 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited Mela Hoyt-Heydon Adam Lid Class Type: Lecture Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Fee: $5 for optional fabric swatch package Level: All Level: All This class will give an overview of Elsa Schiaparelli’s designs with Many historical costumes are made from silk fabric but are all emphasis on the 1920s and 1930s and include the key elements silks the same? What is the difference between a brocade and a that influenced fashion in general during this period as well as the damask? Why doesn’t the satin at Jo Anns look like the satin on social, political, and cultural context of the period. Schiaparelli’s the gown in the museum? Mela will go over the major types of innovations will be examined in detail and compared to the works silk fabrics used in the past with samples being passed around of her contemporaries and conclude with a look at her legacy. for you to touch and see how each of these fabrics drape and feel. Teacher provides: Nothing Modern substitutes will be discussed, highlighting the pros and Student provides: Nothing cons of each. Teacher provides: Fabric swatches of a variety of silk fabrics for handling Student provides: Nothing

- www.costumecollege.net - 37 Fabrics to Reproduce Fashion Plates Fiber Content Testing 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited 9:00am-11:00am 2 hrs Limited Jennifer Rosbrugh J.P. Ryan Feather Tippetts Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Class Type: Fee: $25 Level: All Level: All Fashion plates abound in the 19th Century inspiring us with new Have you forgotten the fiber content of that fabric that’s been designs and challenging our skills. Godey’s, Ackermann’s, La in your stash forever? Are you hesitant to buy that wonderful Mode, Delineator‚Ķ each publication gives a plethora of ideas. but unmarked fabric in the discount bin? Wonder no more!!! The biggest question costumers have is what fabrics are best In this workshop you will learn and practice testing fabric for to bring one of these gorgeous plates to life. We’ll explore the fiber content. You will take home a travel size burn testing kit printed text for information as well as how to make good textile complete with laminated chart for fiber testing. You will burn guesses that will translate into a believable historical design. test swatches provided by the instructor and see the results of Basic knowledge of sewing & historical costuming is helpful. chlorine/acetone testing. Students may bring 2”x2” swatches of Teacher provides: Modern reproductions & their original fabrics they wish to test. fashion plate inspirations Teacher provides: Travel Size Burn Test Kits with Laminated Student provides: Any fashion plates students are wanting to Chart. Swatches for Testing. interpret Student provides: Optional 2”x2” Swatches of Mystery Fabric they would like to test.

How to Create and Hand Embroider 18th Century Jumps/ Waistcoat 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited

SATURDAY Carolyn Runnells Class Type: Lecture Fee: $1.00 Level: All A brief overview of 18th Century jumps/waistcoats including fabrics, types of embroidery threads, stitches used, and batting available in the 1700’s. Then we will translate this information into buyable patterns, types of fabrics, types of embroidery threads and batting that is available in today’s marketplace. Explore various ways to develop an embroidery pattern and transfer the pattern. There will be available samples of work on different types of fabrics, various types of embroidery threads and strands used (silk, wool, wool and silk blend), and stitches used, including tamboured embroidery. This wearable art is beautiful with your 18th century petticoat and can be wearable with a pair of jeans today. 18th Century Coat Construction Teacher provides: Handouts Available 9:00am-11:00am 2 hrs Unlimited Student provides: nothing Mary Johns Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All Learn how 18th Century Redcoats and Coats are constructed. Free-Motion Quilting for Costumers Several examples will be available to touch and feel. 9:00am-11:00am 2 hrs Limited Teacher provides: Coats to look at, examples of materials, and Meg Horan Lisa Stuart some works in progress so that students can see the insides of a Class Type: Workshop Fee: $5 coat. Level: All Student provides: Nothing Free-motion quilting isn’t just for bedspreads. Learn how to start free-motion quilting, and explore creative techniques that add texture and embellishment to your historic and fantasy costumes! Pouf and Buckle - How to easily achieve the fabulous Teacher provides: Handouts, quilt sandwiches, water soluble hairstyles of the latter half of the 18th century stabilizer 9:00am-11:00am 2 hrs Unlimited Student provides: sewing machine, free motion foot (stationary, Kim Oriold hopping, or darning foot), feed dog cover (if machine cannot Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0 drop feed dogs), polyester embroidery thread, cotton sewing Level: All thread, bobbins, sewing kit (snips, pins, etc) How to easily create an authentic latter half 18th century hairstyle, using your own hair and pre-made false hair pin-in pieces. Teacher provides: A handout with detailed step-by-step instructions and diagrams. Student provides: Nothing

38 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Topper Training 9:00am-12:00pm 3 hrs Limited Gina Lovin Class Type: Workshop Fee: $25 Level: All In this hands-on buckram hat-making class students will make bonnets from buckram and wire. This class will take the student through making a Buckram hat frame to covering it in fashion fabric. While the skills in the class are focused on 1810 bonnets, they are adaptable to top hats and other historical eras. Teacher provides: Buckram, wire, glue, needles, tools, interlining, Student provides: Sewing machine preferred, hand needles acceptable. Personal sewing items like scissors, thread, seam ripper, etc. One yard of fashion fabric like velveteen or damask, taffeta or poplin, but nothing flimsy or delicate for this project.

Making the Phantom Bustle 9:00am-11:30am 2.5 hrs Limited Chris DeAngelo Class Type: Workshop Fee: $20 Level: All Students will make their very own “Phantom” bustle. This bustle is small, lightweight, sturdy, and collapsible. It is ingeniously crafted with little more than wire and twill tape. The Phantom bustle is based on extant versions in the V&A and LACMA collections, as well as patents and advertisements of the era. It’s simple and inexpensive when compared to larger, more complex “lobster style” bustles, but still gives a great curvy shape! SATURDAY Teacher provides: Wire, wire cutters, twill tape, two-pronged buckle, grommets, awls, string, shaping jig and grommet setting tools. Student provides: Basic hand sewing kit. Optional: pliers (this class involves bending wire; if you have trouble with your hands you may wish to bring pliers to assist you.)

Loomed Ribbon Flowers 9:00am-12:00pm 3 hrs Limited Foam Fabrication for Beginners Lia Hansen 9:00am-12:00pm 3 hrs Limited Class Type: Workshop Fee: $15 Malaki Keller Christina Stroffolino Level: All Class Type: Fee: $30 Using a simple loom, create open-work flowers from narrow Level: ribbon that can be used to embellish any project. So you’ve heard about this cool thing called foam and you want to Teacher provides: Ribbon, loom, beads, mounting fabric, play with some? This workshop is for beginners to play and learn specialty needle, and instructions about crafting and building with foam. All the basics of pattern Student provides: Basic hand sewing kit including neutral tracings, cutting and gluing will be done here. We supply the thread materials and patterns, you come ready to build and have fun. *This Workshop is required if you are taking Foam Fabrication Advanced Techniques. Teacher provides: Foam material, glue, brushes, razor blades, patterns Student provides: Aprons, cutting mats, razor blades and ball point pens - www.costumecollege.net - 39 Game of Shields: A prop-making workshop A Demonstration of the Basics of Foam Armor Construction 9:00am-1:00pm 4 hrs Limited 10:30am-12:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Brayton Carpenter Amy Carpenter Heath Hammond Christine Millar Class Type: Workshop Fee: $95 Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0 Level: All Level: Beginners In this make and take class, students will assemble and finish Ever want to build yourself an armored suit? This class will an authentic, curved, medieval shield. In the first half of class, demonstrate how to make foam armor from scratch, and will students will create, fit and install leather arm and hand straps go through the different steps needed to make foam armor, to the back of a pre-made shield blank, while we discuss shield from designing a usable pattern using duct tape, to selecting construction techniques, how to make a shield press, etc. In the and cutting the foam, to using the right glues to put the pieces second half of class, utilizing a modern graphic overlay, we will together. Christine will demonstrate the techniques mentioned apply house sigils to each shield. Then students will learn and to make a breast plate in class. apply special “deco painting” techniques to weather them down Teacher provides: Handouts into authentic-looking screen used props. The end result will be Student provides: Nothing a fantastic shield that will look amazing with your costume or on display! Teacher provides: One shield kit consisting of — one approximately 21” x 25” x .5” curved, wooden “heater” shield (the classic, medieval shape) blank, pre-painted with a base color, one set of leather hand straps and adjustable arm strap with buckle, one “sigil” graphic to be applied to shield, paints brushes etc. for weathering. Student provides: clothes for painting/shop apron. Hair dryer SATURDAY STUDENTS MUST CHOOSE ONE- Stark (Dire Wolf’s head/ off-white field) Lannister (Rampant Lion/red field), Targaryen (Three Headed Dragon/ Black field), Greyjoy (Kraken/ Black field)

Cotton Basics 10:30am-12:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Mela Hoyt-Heydon Class Type: Lecture Fee: $5 for optional fabric swatch package Design On A Dime Level: All 10:30am-12:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Since the 18th century, cotton has been used for clothing, Joyce Bolin Kristen Darville-Foggie starting as an upscale fabric and ending as an everyday staple Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 today. While cotton is readily available and at prices all can Level: All afford today, how are you sure that the muslin mentioned on the This class will take a look at how to create the costumes of 1810 fashion plate you are recreating is the muslin available at your dreams while staying on budget and “making it work.” Jo Ann’s? (It isn’t!). What is the difference between voile and It will include a brief overview of how ancestors would reuse batiste? Mela will go over the major types of cotton fabrics used old gowns and fabric to create new fashions. We’ll also take a in the past and will have samples for you to touch and see how look at common ways to refresh an old gown/costume and not each feels and drapes. “break the bank.” Teacher provides: fabric samples for handling Teacher provides: Printed handouts Student provides: Nothing Student provides: Nothing

Hairpiece Basics: Crinoline-Era hair 10:30am-12:30pm 2 hrs Unlimited Bridget Bradley-Scaife Lana Lily Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $1 Level: All Learn the basics of using hairpieces. Learn how to match your hair color, where to buy, and even how to make your own. In this class, we will demo how to create multiple Crinoline Era hairstyles using handmade and ready-made hairpieces. Teacher provides: Handout Student provides: Nothing

40 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Hollywood Royalty 11:00am-12:30pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Sophia Khan Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All An overview of fashion and costume during Hollywood’s Golden Era (the late 1920s to the early 1960s). Showing the extravagant fashions that stars wore on and off the silver screen. During this period designers created innovative costumes to make historical epics, musicals, film noir, sci-fi, westerns, comedies, and dramas come to life. This class will show the work of Edith Head, Adrian, Walter Plunkett, Orry-Kelly, Travis Banton, Salvatore Ferragomo, Schiaparelli and many more. Teacher provides: Handouts Student provides: Nothing Side Hoops to False Rumps: Changes in women’s fashion 1774 - 1784 11:00am-12:30pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Carolyn Dowdell Taylor Autumn Shelby Intro to Integrating Lights and Electronics Into Your Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Costume Level: All 10:30am-1:00pm 2.5 hrs Limited This visual-rich lecture in two parts details the mini revolution Air Bubbles Cosplay that occurred in women’s fashions in the 4th quarter of the 18th Class Type: Workshop Fee: $25 century by comparing those of 1774 with those of 1784. The first Level: Intermediate part will deal with the big-picture changes in fashion, silhouette Let there be light! This class will be focusing on the basics of and aesthetic over this decade. The second part will focus on the integrating lights into your costume. Students will make their delicious details and accessories over the same time period. own small LED project to show off and test their soldering skills. Teacher provides: Nothing (Students MUST know basic soldering) Students will also take Student provides: Nothing home extra knowledge concerning more advanced electronics such as Smoke Machines. Teacher provides: Solder, LED project, extra soldering irons Student provides: Soldering iron, optional: own LED project I Need Orange Shoes! Or shoe embellishment 11:30am-2:00pm 2.5 hrs Limited

Simone Bryan SATURDAY Class Type: Workshop Fee: $35 Embroidered Regency Reticule Level: All 11:00am-3:00pm 4 hrs Limited Need a shoe for an event, but you don’t have it? Paint it! This J.P. Ryan Feather Tippetts workshop will help you change the color of shoes, purses, Class Type: Workshop Fee: $45 everything! Level: Intermediate Teacher provides: All Paints and Implements to craft the Create your very own white silk reticule! You may select the exterior of the Shoes, Workshop Handout shape of your reticule and the period appropriate embroidered Student provides: Your own pair of shoes, any specific motif. There are three shapes and six motifs available. Reticules embellishments (Victorian vs Steampunk), Fan Brushes, Apron are finished with silk piping and tassels. Teacher provides: Kits with Scalamandre heavy white silk satin fabric for reticule exterior, glazed white cotton for the lining with interior pocket, and narrow white ribbon for the ties; silk and Late 18th Century Fabrics cord for piping, plus tassels. Each reticule will be embellished 12:00pm-1:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited with an embroidred historically inspired motif. Students will be Mary Johns contacted to choose their reticule shape and motif. Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Student provides: Participants are requested to bring their own Level: Beginners sewing machine with standard foot and zipper foot, an extension Fabric samples of various materials will be available to look at cord, white thread, fabric scissors, pins and pin cushion, hand- and feel. We will go over the basic fabrics available in the mid- sewing needles, pencil or washable marker. Must have and know late 18th Century, and what to keep a lookout for when planning how to use a zipper foot (for sewing on piping). your own costumes. We will be going over basic prints, stripes, plaids and checks as well as fabric weights. Teacher provides: Hand out that includes resources for fabric purchasing Student provides: Nothing

- www.costumecollege.net - 41 Dressing the Plus-Size Silhouette 12:00pm-2:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited Jennifer Rosbrugh Models: Jennifer Bristow, Jane Cadieux, Rebecca Maiten, Debbie Ebbitt, Kristine Sosa, Kristen Foggie, Catherine Scholar Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All What is underneath those clothes?? In this class, we’ll take a look at the various layers that produce fashionable silhouettes for larger figures from seven eras: 1770s, Regency, Romantic Era, Civil War, Late Bustle, 1890s and Edwardian. Using live models, we’ll discuss each garment layer made in appropriate fabrics from chemise & corset to finished ensemble with accessories. A comparison between each era’s styles will be presented as we go through every article of clothing as they pertain to the plus-size woman. Come see this visual 3-D fashion history lesson! Metal Clay Basics Live models with period reproduction 12:00pm-5:00pm 5 hrs Limited Teacher provides: fashions Olivia Competente Note-taking materials and camera, if desired Class Type: Workshop Fee: $90 Student provides: Level: All Missing metal antique buttons? Yearning for jewels to accent

SATURDAY your period costume? Or just love jewelry? Metal clay is a wondrous medium that starts out as soft pliable clay and, when Introduction to Casting and Mold-Making fired, will transform into a piece of fine silver. This classwill 12:00pm-2:00pm 2 hrs Limited cover the basics of metal clay techniques from start to polished. Christina Stroffolino Theresa Zimmerman Teacher provides: Everything students need to finish projects Class Type: Workshop Fee: $40 in class Level: All Student provides: Note pad and ideas and open mind Have you ever wanted to copy something you only have one of? For instance, a button? We have the solution — Mold-making! Ribbon Chatelaines Learn how to make a simple one-piece silicone mold and pour 12:00pm-5:00pm 5 hrs Limited copies in urethane casting resin. Demo will cover setting up for Elizabeth Emerson molding, pouring silicone, de-molding, casting both in regular Class Type: Workshop Fee: $30 resin and colored applications. Come and be amazed! Level: Beginners Teacher provides: Handout, Silicone and Urethane, Gloves, This will be a ribbon chatelaine class based on a historic Cups, mixing tools, parchment paper 1860s pattern. The chatelaine will have an attachment for the Student provides: Aprons, table cover for mess waist, watch clasps for the end of each chatelaine “arm” and coordinating cording for a scissors attachment. Each student will receive a kit containing all the needed supplies to make a finished chatelaine. Including. True antique jacquard ribbon will be available in numerous color choices. Teacher provides: Needles, thread, pins, buckram, hardware, pinning boards, and printed instructions Student provides: Nothing

Triage for Costume Disasters 12:00pm-1:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Karen Fox Class Type: Lecture Fee: None Level: All Events are sometimes in chaotic places. What do you do when disasters happen at events? Spilled wine, food, rain, torn hems, broken clasps, strands of pearls caught on things can ruin your hard work if you don’t know what to do! Learn how to pull it together on the spot and how to treat stains and tears after the fact. Teacher provides: Handouts Student provides: Nothing

42 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Paste and Pearls: Jewelry of the Georgian era 12:30pm-1:30pm 1 hrs Unlimited Taylor Shelby Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All This class is a beautiful overview of the styles of jewelry through the Georgian era. Taylor will share images of antique jewelry and portraits and will illustrate the materials and the changing fashions of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Teacher provides: nothing Student provides: nothing

Making the Disney Magic 12:30pm-1:30pm 1 hrs Unlimited Sophia Khan Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All A history of costuming in the Walt Disney universe. Covering the start of Animatronics at Disneyland and how Imagineers clothed them, to character costumes as they have developed worldwide, with insights of a creative Cast Member. Teacher provides: Handouts Student provides: Nothing

Bodice Fitting 101 12:30pm-3:00pm 2.5 hrs Unlimited Lana Lily Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $1 Level: All A well fit bodice can make cheap fabric look amazing and poor SATURDAY fit can make expensive fabric look shoddy. This demo will tackle the challenging process of fitting both a darted bodice and a princess seam bodice on 3 different body types. Learn the basics of bodice fitting and how to approach some of the challenges of fitting various bust sizes. Teacher provides: Handouts Student provides: Nothing

The Future of Yesterday Grace Kelly’s Influence on Fashion 1:00pm-2:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited 1:00pm-2:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Rebecca Lowell Sandy Manning Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All Level: All Drop in for a brief overview of Steampunk- what is it, where to Grace Kelly, royalty first of Hollywood and later, in real life find inspiration, and how to make it. influenced fashion. Find out how she effected the fashion scene. Teacher provides: nothing Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: nothing Student provides: note taking materials.

- www.costumecollege.net - 43 Ladies of Downton Abbey Necklace and Earrings 1:00pm-5:00pm 4 hrs Limited Tracey Gorin Class Type: Workshop Fee: $40 Level: All Downton Abbey showcases the fantastically long necklaces of the flapper 1920s era. They’re so sparkly! Don’t you want to make one of your own? In this class, we will be making a long 1920s beaded necklace and earrings, while discussing appropriate semi-precious stones and patterns. Teacher provides: Beads, beading needles, thread, findings, handouts Student provides: Bead board, embroidery scissors, measuring tape, ruler, needle-nose pliers, round nose pliers, bent nose pliers, pen

The History of the 16th Century Ruff: From frilled shirt collar to lace trimmed monstrosities 2:00pm-4:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited Constance MacKenzie Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0

SATURDAY Level: All A short presentation on the history of the ruff 1560s-1600. Looking at their depiction in portraits, construction technics and materials. Then a demonstration of the hand sewing skills needed to construct an authentic ruff including style, fabric choices, decorative finishes, setting with starch and supporting methods. Constance will have several ruffs in the various stages Making 18th Century Hair Products of construction that the class can handle and study and try on. 1:00pm-3:00pm 2 hrs Limited Teacher provides: Demonstration models for the talk Annette Grace Cynthia Aronin Student provides: Nothing Class Type: Workshop Fee: $15 Level: All Students will learn about various recipes and techniques to create personalized hair products for 18th century hair styles. They will Identifying Sheer Fabrics Then and Now make custom basic blends of pomatum and hair powder; enough 1:30pm-3:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited of both to see them through several styles. Resources will be given Bridget Bradley-Scaife for basic recipes, and recipes for additional pomatum scents and Class Type: Lecture colored powders as well as where to purchase ingredients. Fee: $1 Handout, $4 optional Swatch Card Teacher provides: Ingredients and equipment to make Level: All pomatum and powder, and handouts Learn about sheer fabrics and the fibers and weaves used to Student provides: A desire to learn create them. In this class, there will be an emphasis on mid- Victorian fabric terms and the fabric choices available today. Fabrics such as muslin, batiste, lawn, tarlatan, voile, organdy/ organza, net, gauze, and more will be discussed. Screen and Rubberize Printing on Fabrics Teacher provides: Handout with optional Swatch Card 2:00pm-3:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Student provides: Nothing Maegen Hensley Class Type: Lecture Fee: $1 for swatches and handouts Level: All Have you ever wondered how they got those Deltas on the Star Trek uniforms? Or what that pattern is on the Guardian’s of Galaxy Jacket? More and more, costume designers of film and television are turning to unique printing to differenciate their costumes from normal clothing. Come learn the techniques and sources on how to do this yourself. Fabrics of the Universes! Teacher provides: Handouts and swatches Student provides: Nothing

44 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Hanbok - Modern Historical Korean Dress 3:00pm-4:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Elizabeth Gerds Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All After WWII the modern state of Korea created guidelines for traditional dress, helping to reintroduce fashions that had been outlawed by the Japanese. Drawing on existent garments and art, designers have recreated the looks of the past. This class offers brief look at what makes Korean style unique. Teacher provides: Nothing The Top Dresses That Changed the World in the 20th Student provides: Nothing Century. 2:00pm-3:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Sandy Manning A Pressing Matter Class Type: Lecture Fee: None 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Limited Level: All Rory Cunningham Which dresses of the 20th century changed fashion? From the Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $5 Delphos pleated dress in 1915, to the Safety Pin dress of 1994, Level: All finishing with the LED dress in 2007. This is a survey class After sewing a beautiful seam, it will never look perfect unless focusing on specific dresses that impacted fashion. it is pressed correctly. Learn tricks of the trade to take you from Teacher provides: Information “loving hands at home” to “lovely garments to own.” In this Student provides: Paper and pen. class, students will not only learn more than one way to finish seams of all sorts, but will receive other insights to create your costume visions. Teacher provides: Samples, hand out and detailed information Cloning Clothes: Patterning an extant garment on how to improove your costume construction 2:00pm-5:00pm 3 hrs Limited Student provides: Note taking devices/cameras, questions and Regina Lawson the desire to excel in their work Class Type: Workshop Fee: $3 Level: Intermediate Learn how to create a copy of your favourite garment, without destroying the original. Bring along a relatively simple (to start) garment to copy. If desired, students may bring mock up fabric and sewing machine, to test the copy, as time allows. SATURDAY Teacher provides: Large-sized paper Student provides: Garment to copy, writing implements-2 colours, Drafting tools-french curve, ruler, etc., large straight or safety pins, mock up fabric.

Pocket Those Hoops 2:00pm-5:00pm 3 hrs Limited Gina Lovin Class Type: Workshop Fee: $20 Level: All In this hands-on class students will make a pair of pocket hoops or panniers to be worn underneath your 18th century finery. Teacher provides: Fabric & materials for constructing panniers, pattern, Student provides: Sewing machine and tools for sewing, thread, hand and machine needle(s).

- www.costumecollege.net - 45 What’s in a Weave 3:00pm-4:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Katrina Homer Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All This class will focus on different weaving techniques specific to silk fabric as well as a brief overview of surface treatment versus weaving techniques. Teacher provides: Handouts Student provides: Nothing

Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Costuming in the Modern World 3:00pm-4:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Paige Mattern Carolyn Runnells SATURDAY Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: Are you new to costuming? Don’t have access to a garment district? Do you live in a small community? Come join us to see how we use everyday items in our costuming to mimic Historically Accurate, Cosplay, Fantasy and Steampunk. Social Media for the Costumer Helpful for beginners as well as experienced costume makers. 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited Teacher provides: Nothing Eric Gerds Student provides: Nothing Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: Beginners Understand and connect with the larger costume community! Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo groups are just a few of the social media options out there in this day and age. What is it all about? Making Kanzashi Do I have to know and join everything to stay in touch and to find 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Limited what I want or need to know? Let’s look at the different options Sandra Manning and try to find what is right for you. Class Type: Workshop Teacher provides: Nothing Fee: $10.00 for all the supplies needed. Student provides: Nothing Level: All Kanzashi blooms originated in Japan where they folded squares of silk into 3 D flower petals. These are made using a simpler method adopted by Americans. These flowers can be used in Basic Blackwork Embroidery earrings, hair clips, belt buckles, etc. Students will practice 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Limited making a couple flowers before creating a flower for a pendent Kristin Stonham out of cotton fabric. Class Type: Workshop Fee: $20 Teacher provides: The materials needed to make the flowers. Level: All Student provides: Scissors, thimble, needles, thread. Learn how to decorate your clothes, costumes, and furnishings with blackwork, an embroidery style popularized in England at the time of Henry VIII, and recurrent to the modern day. Easy and addictive, blackwork embroidery is a fun way to decorate the plain and make the ordinary extraordinary. Teacher provides: Embroidery hoop, fabric, needles, embroidery thread. Student provides: Scissors.

46 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - The Long and Short of Wool Making and Setting Elizabethan Ruffs 9:00am-11:00am 2 hrs Unlimited 9:00am-12:00pm 3 hrs Limited Priscilla Atwell Jennifer Erlichman Christina Forst Class Type: Lecture Fee: $2 Class Type: Workshop Fee: $5 Level: All Level: Intermediate In this class the students will learn about the differences between Learn how to construct and maintain historically-accurate woolen and worsted wool and how to identify if the fabric is Elizabethan ruffs. We will cover the history of ruffs and ruff- wool. Students will learn different methods of how to clean wool making, choosing the right linen fabric, techniques for making fabrics along with sewing hints. The students will leave with ruffs in both historical and more modern methods, as well as the samples of both types of wool materials along with the fibers they process for starching and setting ruffs. The second portion of are made from. the class will include a hands-on workshop where students will Teacher provides: Info sheets, samples of wool (fabric and construct their own mini ruff, plus get to set sample ruffs in class fiber) to master the technique. Student provides: Attention and willingness to learn Teacher provides: Linen samples to use for creating mini ruffs in class, instructional handout. Student provides: White linen or cotton thread, needles, thread conditioner, sewing and fabric scissors, pins, basic sewing kit.

Beginning Hand Sewing 9:00am-1:00pm 4 hrs Limited Lia Hansen 18th Century Breeches Class Type: Workshop Fee: $5 9:00am-5:00pm 8 hrs Limited Level: Beginners Mary Johns New to sewing? You will create a small sampler containing 4 Class Type: Workshop Fee: $35 basic hand stitches, hooks with both loop and thread eyes, snaps, Level: All button with thread shank, and the chain stitch. The sampler is a Make a pair of 18th Century Drop Front Breeches, including great size to keep handy for reference. fitting help if necessary. Breeches should be ‘mostly’ finished by Teacher provides: fabric and notions for sampler, instructions end of class. Student provides: scissors, pen Teacher provides: Pattern Student provides: Sewing machine, thread, scissors, pins, measuring tape, material, buttons.

Leather Armor Construction: Making a pauldron (shoulder defense) Sunday 9:00am-12:00pm 3 hrs Limited Brayton Carpenter Amy Carpenter Class Type: Workshop Fee: $75 Level: All By popular request, Legendary Costume Works will delve into teaching leather armor! Students in this course will gain a basic understanding of armor construction, fit, strapping, articulation and decoration. What better way to cover these subjects than by making a leather pauldron? You’ve seen them on warriors of every stripe- from the post-apocalyptic styling of Furiosa’s pauldron in Mad Max Fury Road; to the simple shoulder pieces worn by the Dothraki BloodRiders on HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” to the classic, articulated shoulder/arm defenses worn by Gladiators in the arena. Students will construct a 3-plate, articulated leather pauldron that can be worn over the right or left shoulder, secured by a chest-strap that passes under the opposing arm. Utilizing dyes, paints, stamps, rivets and studs, students will then finish their leather armor pieces in the style they wish. Teacher provides: Leather pauldron kit consisting of 3 armor plates, straps, buckles and rivets necessary for a custom fit armor piece; leather dyes, antiques and limited paints for finishing project. Student provides: Appropriate shop clothes for getting dirty, shop apron, leather tools if available. *misc studs, findings and embellishments will be available cheaply for purchase, so students may wish to have a little cash on hand.

- www.costumecollege.net - 47 Foam Fabrication Advanced Techniques Dress Trims and Trends from 1860-1900 9:00am-5:00pm 8 hrs Limited 9:00am-10:00am 1 hrs Unlimited Malaki Keller Christina Stroffolino Jennifer Lemus Class Type: Workshop Fee: $40 Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: Advanced Level: All You’ve been making foam costumes for the kids, maybe stuff for More than just the silhouette, contrast, embroidery, ruffles and friends on Halloween? Time to get serious! This workshop is for pleats changed between 1860 through 1900 defined the look. Do the people who want to take their skills to a new high, learn tricks you emphasize the hem or the layered look on the bodice? The and tips that the pros use to fool everyone into saying, “That’s right trim in the right spot can mean the difference between an FOAM??!!” Patterning will be discussed as well as heat forming amazing gown and a costume. Come learn how embroidery and and coating and sealing. Bring your A game and build a piece you pleats changed over time, when and where ruffles were used, and can wear home! how the fashion rules slowly changed, or in case of hem pleats, *Foam Fabrication for Beginners is required before taking this almost didn’t! From new folks to the experienced, come to learn Workshop. or to enjoy the eye candy! Teacher provides: Foam material, glue, brushes, razor blades, Teacher provides: Nothing patterns Student provides: Nothing Student provides: Aprons, cutting mats, razor blades and ball point pens.

Making and Weaving 1760s Fly Trim Never Lose Your Fan Again: Make an elegant silk tassel 9:00am-12:30pm 3.5 hrs Limited wristband set Christine Millar Denise Hendrick 9:00am-1:00pm 4 hrs Limited Class Type: Workshop Lynn McMasters Gail Nichols Fee: $65 dollars ($40 for the loom, $10 for the bone shuttle, $15 Sunday Class Type: Workshop Fee: $15 for threads) Level: All Level: All The class will make a tassel wristband set. These sets consist of For a decade and a half in the 18th century, from 1760s to the a silk twist cord, a silk covered wooden bead (this bead tightens early 1770s, there was a boom in the popularity of a new type and loosens the cord on your wrist) and one or more silk tassels. of passamenterie — fly trim. Sadly, this trim is not available In this class we will make the type with a single tassel. These anywhere on the market today. This class will focus on making fly wristbands were added to fans after about 1850 and can be easily trim from that era with a woven center, and will teach everything moved from fan to fan. I will cover why we use silk thread and from making the “flies” to using the inkle loom to put the flies what it has that other threads do not. together. Teacher provides: Kit: includes; tools for making twist cord Teacher provides: Wooden Inkle loom and shuttle, thread (hooks), wooden forms for the bead and the head of the tassel. for the inkle loom, bone knotting shuttle, and Japanese silk A card for wrapping silk thread around to make the tassel fringe embroidery thread for fly trim and instructions.Tape, sewing machine for class use and glue. Student provides: clean tooth brush, embroidery scissors, nail Student provides: One spool of Tire brand #50 silk thread 125 file yds., a pack of darning needles, scissors, Small (1/4”) glue brush and a small lidded container (like a pill box) for your glue.

48 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Sleeve Fitting in Victorian Bodices Garters for All Times 9:00am-10:30am 1.5 hrs Unlimited 9:00am-12:30pm 3.5 hrs Limited Jennifer Rosbrugh Jess Miller Class Type: Lecture Fee: $1 Class Type: Workshop Fee: $10 Level: Intermediate Level: All The most vocal fitting frustrations expressed by costumers is In this class, students will learn the basic techniques for card in dealing with sleeves — getting them fitted to where they look or tablet weaving garters. This will be an introduction to the good, don’t bind, hang correctly and are generally comfortable. technique, covering cards, materials, threading the cards and This class will discuss bodice fitting in its relationship to sleeves starting a pair of garters. There will be a discussion of uses as well as techniques to fit the sleeves themselves. We’ll also through different periods of history. look at the various armhole placements of the Victorian era and Teacher provides: Cards, instructions how that relates to making well-fitting sleeves. Student provides: Two colors of yarn of the same type, scissors, Teacher provides: Handout; sleeve & bodice patterns and measuring devices, three inch C-clamp and a belt. garments for discussion Student provides: Nothing

The Measure of a (Wo)Man 9:00am-11:00am 2 hrs Unlimited Cynthia Settje Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0 Level: All Measurements are essential for costuming, but taking your own can be an impossible challenge. In this class, we will go through proper measurement taking technique used in professional costume shops. After the demo, attendees will team up to take measurements for each other. You will leave the class with a full measurement sheet (20+ measurements) which you can use for your own pattern drafting or when placing bespoke orders. This is also a great way to make friends and break the ice! Teacher provides: Measurement sheets, extra measuring tapes, string Regency (Faux) Fur Mega-Muff Sunday Student provides: 60” measuring tape, a piece of string or 9:00am-1:00pm 4 hrs Limited ribbon to tie about your waist, pen/pencil. Please also wear Diane Yoshitomi attire that will not impede accurate measurements. Bring corsets Class Type: Workshop Fee: $20 if you’d like to have both natural and corsetted measurements Level: Intermediate done. What was it about Regency sensibilities that caused the mundane muff to grow to such gargantuan proportions? Perhaps it was the slender silhouette of the dress that called for an out-sized accessory? Whatever the reason, huge muffs were “enormously” Let’s Add Some Color: Tie dyeing cotton or rayon popular, and in this workshop students will create one of their 9:00am-11:30am 2.5 hrs Limited own, with the practical bonus of a concealed pocket in which to Hallie Smith stow today’s indispensibles. Class Type: Workshop Fee: $25 Teacher provides: pre-cut kit of all materials & notions; Level: All illustrated instructions Ever look at a white shirt and think “I could improve that...”? Student provides: sewing machine (no minis), basic sewing kit, Then this class is for you! Let’s go through the basics of tie packet of 2-inch ball head (red or yellow) straight pins dyeing cotton or rayon clothing, and practice on some basic pieces. Each student will have time to try two simple pieces. If Quick Alteration Tips & Tricks you’ve done some tie dye before, come and try something more 9:00am-10:00am 1 hrs Unlimited advanced like adding shapes or a shibori technique. Trish Sova Teacher provides: Handouts, dyes and supplies, and two simple Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0 garment pieces for each student. Email will be sent out before Level: Intermediate class to discuss types and sizes. Altering a costume quickly and easily is a necessity when you Student provides: Nothing have an entire cast to costume. How do you prioritize, and mark the alterations that need to be made? Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: Note taking supplies - www.costumecollege.net - 49 Overview of Victorian Parasol Coverings 10:00am-11:00am 1 hrs Unlimited Maegen Hensley Class Type: Lecture Fee: $5 for handout / Swatches will be free Level: All This is a straightforward overview of the most commonly used fabrics for the “bonnet” or covers of parasols in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Limited full color, over 20 page handouts will be available for purchase. Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: Handouts and swatches

All About Linen So You Wanna Be a Superhero? Cosplay 101 11:00am-12:30pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited 10:00am-11:00am 1 hrs Unlimited Jane Cadieux Air Bubbles Cosplay Class Type: Lecture Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Fee: $5 for swatches Level: All Level: All So you wanna be a hero, kid? Well, Air Bubbles Cosplay is here Linen, one of the most ancient textiles used by humans, is a to talk to you! This will be a Q&A style presentation where Air versatile and useful fabric. From Egyptian mummy wrappings Bubbles will supply helpful information she has gathered over the to Renaissance underwear to tablecloths, the properties of linen years and some proper etiquette within the cosplay community. have remained relevant for millennia. This class will cover how SUNDAY She will also discuss just what IS cosplay and where did it come linen is made, how to care for it, and some of the myriad ways from? Come in as a beginner and leave feeling ready to tackle it can be used. Swatch books (of weights and weaves) will be your cosplay plans. available for $5 each. Teacher provides: Hand out Teacher provides: Notes, swatches Student provides: Questions! Student provides: nothing

Teaching for Costume College The Making of Historical Shoes 10:30am-11:30am 1 hrs Unlimited 11:00am-1:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited Maria Aceituno Nicole Rudolph Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All Level: All This is a question and answer session for prospective teachers. A look at the evolution of shoe styles and construction from the Teacher provides: Nothing 17th c. to the early 20th c. We’ll explore the step-by-step methods Student provides: Nothing for each era to understand how their changes affect not just the appearance of the shoe, but the weight, feel, and ultimately the wearer. A number of historically reproduced shoes will be available to handle. Hand-Sewn Eyelets For Simple and Strong Fastenings. Teacher provides: Nothing 11:00am-12:30pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Student provides: Nothing Constance MacKenzie Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0 Royalty and Revolution: Fashion and politics of the late Level: All 1700s Hand sewn eyelet holes are a simple and integral fastening 11:00am-1:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited method in history, whether it is for holding your shirt collars Tracey Gorin and cuffs shut, pointing your petticoats to your bodice or lacing Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 your stays and corsets. Eyelets are simple and strong and can Level: All be worked in linen, wool and silk with different threads for size This class is a discussion of Marie Antoinette, Georgiana the and strength. they are also enormously satisfying to sew if you Duchess of Devonshire, and Abigail Adams. These three enjoy hand sewing. Constance will demonstrate how eyelets are extraordinary lives in three different countries had a great sewn in different fabrics and garments using a variety of technics influence on fashion and the political world. and materials and answer any questions the students have about Teacher provides: Handouts using eyelets as a fastening. Student provides: Pen for notes Teacher provides: examples and garments with eyelet fastenings and materials. Student provides: Nothing

50 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Renaissance Fabrics: Where to find them or how to make them 11:30am-1:30pm 2 hrs Unlimited Simone Bryan Class Type: Lecture Fee: $2 for handouts Level: All Voyage through the Renaissance period, looking at examples to help gain the look you want. Demonstration of how to mimic Learning Worbla Won’t Make You Frown extant fabrics. 11:30am-2:00pm 2.5 hrs Limited Teacher provides: Fabric examples, Hand out of Bibliography, Air Bubbles Cosplay and sources Class Type: Workshop Fee: $20 Student provides: Note taking Level: All Dive into the world of thermoplastics with Air Bubbles Cosplay! She has been using Worbla for 2+ years. During this panel she Make a Better Bow will discuss the many different types of Worbla as well as other 12:00pm-2:00pm 2 hrs Limited thermoplastics and how they differ. She will share her own armor Lana Lily woes and armor successes. Let us help you transform your dream Class Type: Workshop Fee: $15 armor into a reality! Level: All Teacher provides: Worbla, foam, extra scissors, extra heat guns You don’t tie a bow you make a bow! Finish off your dress with Student provides: Heat gun, scissors, sharpie/pen more than just a floppy ribbon. This hands on workshop will walk you through 3 different techniques to create better bows using ribbon and fabric. Teacher provides: Needles, Ribbons Royal Attire of the Ancient Maya Student provides: fabric scissors 12:30pm-2:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Sarah Faltesek Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Cathy & Lauren’s Business Boost Level: All 12:30pm-2:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Looking for something a little different? Join us as we turn our Lauren Stowell Cathy Hay Brayton Carpenter gaze from Europe toward Mesoamerica, for a glimpse into one of Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 the most fascinating civilizations of the ancient world. Focusing Level: All on the garb of ruling and priest classes of the ancient Maya, we Interested in starting a costuming-based business, but not sure will discuss textiles, color symbolism, body decoration, jewelry, SUNDAY where to start? Join Cathy Hay, founder of Foundations Revealed and more! & Your Wardrobe Unlock’d, and Lauren Stowell, founder of Teacher provides: Nothing American Duchess & Royal Vintage, in a presentation on how Student provides: Nothing they both got started and built successful businesses. Ask the tough questions and get real answers! Let Cathy and Lauren inspire you to get started and build your passion into your career. This panel will be moderated by Brayton Carpenter. Make a 1910s Envelope Chemise Teacher provides: nothing 12:30pm-5:00pm 4.5 hrs Limited Student provides: nothing Lauren Maringola Class Type: Workshop Fee: 30 How to set an Authentic 16th Century Ruff. Level: All 12:30pm-3:00pm 2.5 hrs Limited Students will use Wearing History Circa 1917 Combination Constance MacKenzie Underwear & Chemise Pattern to make a chemise for underneath Class Type: Workshop Fee: $1 their 1910s costumes. This chemise is suitable for 1910s-early Level: Beginners 1920s and is a great jump start into costuming of the WWI era. The iconic 16th century ruff is at its finest when set with starch Since this pattern is based on a period original, this is also a great and poking irons. It is depicted in portraits as a fashion extreme basic to make for those who are new to the world of original but is also mocked in woodcuts and illustrations of the period. sewing patterns of the era. Students will start their garment and Constance will talk on the history of starch, ruff construction, speedy sewers may be able to complete by end of class. and methods of supporting and wearing them. Then she will Teacher provides: Sewing pattern, shell buttons (for demonstrate how to apply the starch and set an authentic ruff combination), lace beading. with modern electrical curling irons to create a range of styles Student provides: Sewing machine, pre-washed cotton fabric and sizes. The class can then have a go at using the different or sheet, thread to match, machine sewing needles, basic sewing styles of curling irons to get the feel of setting a ruff into perfect kit including pins, hand sewing needles, and fabric and paper figures of eight. cutting scissors. Lace trims or matching bias binding. Teacher Teacher provides: Ruffs, Curling Irons and Starch will be in contact before class about specifics. Student provides: Nothing - www.costumecollege.net - 51 Everything Is Turkish Georgian & Victorian Chatelaines 1:00pm-3:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited 1:00pm-5:00pm 4 hrs Limited Kendra Van Cleave Jeannette Darlington Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Class Type: Workshop Fee: $40 Level: All Level: All Did you know that many elements of Western European fashion We will use base metal jewelry findings to approximate come from Turkish dress? Turkey or the Ottoman Empire was the chatelaines from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. best known non-European region to westerners for centuries, Teacher provides: chains, wires, findings, embellishments, etc. and Europeans’ love of exoticism meant that many styles and needed to complete a metal chatelaine, plus necessary tools garments we take for granted actually have their origins in Student provides: REQUIRED: Safety goggles or wrap-around Turkish dress. This lecture will go over many of the connections safety glasses between the two regions from the medieval era through the 19th century, with particular focus on French women’s dress of the 18th century. Teacher provides: Handouts Student provides: Nothing

Custom 1920s Slip 1:00pm-5:00pm 4 hrs Limited Margaret Monos

SUNDAY Class Type: Workshop Fee: $35 Level: Beginners Did you ever wonder what to wear under a One Hour Dress or your vintage dress from the 20s? Undergarments are the key to a good-looking outfit and this slip is made using your own measurements to create a custom fitting historically accurate slip. At the end of the class you should have both a custom pattern but also a completed slip or at least a slip which is partially finished. Teacher provides: Handouts, pattern paper, fabric and thread Student provides: Sewing machine, ruler, tape measure, needles for machine and hand sewing needles, tool for marking fabric (student’s choice), scissors for both fabric and paper, seam ripper (just in case), basic sewing kit

Easy and Accurate Medieval Dress Creating Textured Fantasy Fabrics 1:00pm-2:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited 1:00pm-5:00pm 4 hrs Limited Kristin Stonham Rebecca Lowell Class Type: Lecture Fee: $1 Class Type: Workshop Fee: $10 Level: All Level: Intermediate Contrary to the fabric-hogging layouts of commercial costume Have you marveled over the depth and intricacy of the fabrics in patterns, medieval garb was both sumptuous yet economical your favorite historic and futuristic inspired tv shows and films? of material. Learn how, from the basic T-tunic onwards, a Longing to push your own costumes to the next level? Learn simple layout can easily be tailored to your exact size, saving about some of the various techniques you can use to create you material and money, while increasing the accuracy of your texture and dimension in your fabrics. The first part of the class medieval wardrobe. will be overview and discussion, and the second part will be Teacher provides: Handout and examples. hands on sample making of select techniques. Student provides: Nothing. Teacher provides: visual presentation, fabric samples, demo supplies Student provides: sewing machine, basic sewing kit, machine needles in larger sizes

52 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - 16th C. Gaelic Clothing and Its Origins in History Making a Website With WordPress: What is all the fuss 1:30pm-3:30pm 2 hrs Unlimited about? Steven Gillan Regina Lawson 2:00pm-4:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Eric Gerds Level: Beginners Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 An overview of primary source illustrations and text descriptions Level: All of Irish and Highland clothing and equipment, as well as how Based on feedback from past classes about dealing with a website, these items have been interpreted for 16th century reenactment. many people wanted to know more about the WordPress Teacher provides: Nothing software system. In this class we will deal with basic concepts of Student provides: Nothing what is needed to run a WordPress site and how to operate it. Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: Nothing

Costuming for Burning Man Crocheted Flowers 2:00pm-3:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited 2:00pm-5:00pm 3 hrs Limited Laura Rubin Lia Hansen

Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 SUNDAY Class Type: Workshop Fee: $15 Level: All Level: All Burning Man is a festival of radical self-expression held in Using basic crochet stitches, learn how to make a simple flower Nevada the week leading up to Labor Day each year. But it’s in that can be used to embellish garments or accessories. Students the desert! Decade-long attendee Laura explains some of the should be able to finish at least 1 flower during the class. hazards and considerations in creating stunning costumes for Teacher provides: Yarn, hook, needle, beads, instructions adverse conditions - from freezing high-altitude nights, to gale- Student provides: Scissors force winds, to 100+ degree heat. Teacher provides: Nothing Student provides: Notetaking materials Beginning Hand Embroidery 2:00pm-5:00pm 3 hrs Limited Denise Hendrick Getting Plastered with Jess Class Type: Workshop Fee: $20 2:00pm-3:30pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Level: All Jess Miller In this class you’ll learn 12 of the most common hand embroidery Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $1 stitches and how to use them to create an embroidery sampler Level: All for display or reference. We’ll also discuss the many different In this class, students will learn the messy but fun techniques types of hand embroidery threads available and what they can do of creating plaster masks from plaster-impregnated bandages. for your projects. Demonstrations will be done to show how to build half and full Teacher provides: Fabric, needles, thread, handouts. face masks. Demonstrations will be done on two students. Student provides: 8”-10” embroidery hoop, scissors, and Teacher provides: Handouts marking device - pencil, Frixion pen, washable pen, etc. Student provides: Note taking materials

- www.costumecollege.net - 53 Soutache: Mastering the Tangle Costume Design & Construction for Alteration 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Limited 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited Elizabeth Emerson Trish Sova Class Type: Workshop Fee: $20 Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: Intermediate Level: Intermediate This class will go through all the fundamentals of soutache work. Costuming for theatre can be a little different from sewing for Including layout, patterning, implementation, and appropriate home use. Find out some tricks to designing costumes that can material selection. be easily altered to fit multiple body types. Also find some ways Teacher provides: Students will receive a full kit for soutache to construct garments that will facilitate alterations. design implementation. Will include detailed instructions, Teacher provides: Nothing specially designed perforated transpersncies for easy chalk Student provides: Note taking materials transfer of patterns, as well as the students choice of 5 yards of antique fine weight soutache in their selection of color, as well as needles, pins, pin board, and coordinating thread. Student provides: A length of fabric measuring a minimum 18th Century Hair Styling - Extended Version of 18” x 18”. Note large pieces can be used, but initially it is 3:00pm-5:00pm 2 hrs Unlimited recommended to practice on smaller sections. Thimble and Annette Grace Cynthia Aronin notebook Class Type: Demonstration Fee: $0 Level: All Students will be given a brief history of the 18th Century Over the Top 1830s Hair hairstyles of France, England and America. They will learn the 3:30pm-5:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited various tools and products of the 18th Century used to create Chris DeAngelo these magnificent hairstyles. A demonstration of a few hairstyles Class Type: Lecture on natural hair will be given using 18th Century products. Now

SUNDAY Fee: Suggested $1 for handout with more techniques and tips! Students will also learn where Level: All to purchase various products and will be given the resources to Love it or hate it, the 1830s reveled in wacky, intricate, gravity- create their own. These styles will mostly only work for students defying hairstyles. Whether you have short or long hair, you’ll who have chin length or longer hair. The use of hair pieces will learn how to easily replicate the complex hair architecture of the also be discussed as was appropriate for the time. Romantic Era using hairpieces, support structures, accessories Teacher provides: Handouts and your own tresses. In addition to examining the distinguishing Student provides: A desire to learn traits of this era’s hairstyles, we’ll show you how to achieve some of the more outlandish confections as well! Teacher provides: Handouts Student provides: Nothing Recreating Fantasy Clothing 3:30pm-5:00pm 1.5 hrs Unlimited Jess Miller Class Type: Lecture Fee: $1 Level: All This class will cover reproducing fantasy clothing from illustrations. There will be discussions of historic styles, fabric choices and techniques to get the correct look. Teacher provides: Handouts including a bibliography of sourcres Student provides: Note taking materials, ideas

Queen Victoria and the Rise of Crochet 4:00pm-5:00pm 1 hrs Unlimited Zoe Jones Class Type: Lecture Fee: $0 Level: All Queen Victoria didn’t invent crochet, but through her passion for it and her many creations, she made it a popular handcraft for both fine ladies and the working class. In this lecture we will explore crochet as an everyday accessory, a sumptuous fabric, and a pastime that saved a nation. Teacher provides: Handout Student provides: Nothing

54 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Teachers

Our volunteer teachers are remarkable, knowledgeable, and have spent countless hours developing their classes. Without their contribution, Costume College would not be the extraordinary event that it is. The Costume College Commitee and the CGW, Inc. Board of Directors would like to thank them for their hard work and dedication to the costuming community.

Guest Teacher Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones is curator of the FIDM Museum at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles. He studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and art history at the University of TEACHERS California, Santa Barbara. Kevin joined the FIDM Museum as Collections Manager in 1999, and was appointed Curator in 2002 to oversee the Museum’s 15,000-piece collection. His fashion and social history expertise encompasses the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an emphasis in haute couture. Kevin’s diverse exhibitions cover Hollywood to high fashion. In 2009, he co-curated the Richard Martin Award-winning exhibition, catalogue, and documentary High Style: Betsy Bloomingdale and the Haute Couture. Recently Kevin co-curated FABULOUS! Ten Years of FIDM Museum Acquisitions, 2000-2010, and co-authored the accompanying 380-page catalogue, which covers fashion history from 1800 to 2010. Kevin often presents papers at academic symposia and is sought after for interviews in newspapers and magazines, and on radio and television. Concurrently, he is working on the exhibition and catalogue Outdoor Girls: Sporting Fashion, 1800 to 1950s and the book First Class: Titanic’s Women of Fashion. Among Kevin’s professional associations, he is a member of the Costume Society of America, the Titanic Historical Society, and the Preservation Society of Newport, Rhode Island.

- www.costumecollege.net - 55 Linda Abrams Linda began sewing for her dolls in single-digit ages, got a portable Singer for her 13th birthday, and sewed her own clothes until college. When she joined the SCA 35 years ago, she could sew anything from a pattern…but nothing without one! The SCA’s Company of Clothiers fixed that, with historical patterning. From obsessing on “Peter Pan” in nursery school, Linda always knew she would have to fly. She now has a Private Pilot’s license and flies her vintage 1946 Ercoupe — a much sturdier plane than those you’ll see in “The First Women To Fly!”

Maria Aceituno Maria has been working in the Costume College programming team for 3 years now. As a lifelong crafter she has many hobbies like sewing regular and historical clothing, with a dash of crochet and embroidery work when possible. She is a full time educator at a local University who focuses on technology and curriculum. Her job is high-tech but her hobbies are not, it’s a nice way to keep balance.

Cynthia Aronin Cynthia Aronin has not been costuming for very long but has been fascinated and researching aspects of the 18th Century for 10 years reading all she could get her hands on. Over the past year she has devoted a substantial amount of time researching an apothecary persona for Civil War and 18th Century reenacting. In doing so she has been involved in researching and recreating 18th Century recipes for hair styling products and perfumes along TEACHERS with medicinal remedies of the time.

Priscilla Atwell Priscilla Atwell has an AS in Fashion Design and has costumed stage productions for 15 years. She has worked the Renaissance Faire for 40 years demonstrating spinning, weaving, lace making and knitting. She has expanded into Victorian Fashion--finishing 6 ensembles and all the underpinnings from the Civil War to the Bustle Era. She has taught Hardanger Lace and Bobbin Lace at Costume College. She says that someday she will organize her textile items but until then she’ll teach.

Trystan Bass When she was five years old, Trystan Bass loved to dress in tights and a trenchcoat to play Mrs. Peel from The Avengers. She’s been wearing funny clothes ever since. She’s worked at Renaissance fairs and science-fiction conventions, launched the Greater Bay Area Costumer’s Guild online, organized gothic fashion shows, won Best in Show with the Eugenie group at Costume-Con 26, plays a 16th-c. baroness in the SCA, and performs as a saucy Venetian courtesan with Bella Donna. But her all-consuming passion is to nitpick the historical costumes in movies and TV as Editor-in-Chief of Frock Flicks.

Joyce Bolin Costuming for over 15 years 1860-1912. American Civil War Society, Board of Directors; Co-founder of the Orange County Costume Guild; Founder of the Ladies of the Traveling Tea Society

Bridget Bradley-Scaife Bridget Bradley-Scaife started costuming at age twelve when she got involved in Renaissance Faires. Since then, she has expanded her love of costuming to all time periods, but focuses mostly on the mid-Victorian era. Bridget loves researching and collecting images of historical clothing and especially loves finding the supplies and fabrics to recreate them. She is an active member in the Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild, a buyer for Renaissance Fabrics, and the owner of North & South Emporium (NorthSouthEmporium.com), which specializes in mid- Victorian accessories.

56 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Monie Bryan I failed my sewing class in 8th grade, so I had sew-phobia for years. I fell in love with historical sewing, after seeing “Romeo & Juliet” at age 9, and went to my first Ren Faire, but was too afraid to attempt it. With a lot of help I began to mangle a lot of fabric 30+ years ago, and this was my journey. Now I try to impart some of the wisdom I have received along the way.

Angela Burnley Angela is the owner of Burnley & Trowbridge Co. and founder and coordinator of “The Historic Fashion Workshop Series”. She has been involved in historic costume and textiles for almost 30 years supplying historically accurate textiles and related products to the Historic Fashion community. She has researched and lectured on many subjects related to historic costume, most especially textiles and it’s fashion consumer and has taught and co-taught workshops for over 16 years. Although her background is 18th and early 19th century, she is amazed and takes delight in the fashion of all time periods!

Jane Cadieux Jane Cadieux’s creative passion has found an outlet through designing and making historical and fantasy costumes. She first learned to sew from her mother, Girl Scouts and 4H classes. In college at UCSC, she combined fine art and literature to study the arts of the past then continued her education interning in costume shops at UCSB and Allan Hancock’s Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts. She has been a participant in the SCA and in a Renaissance Faire guild. She sells custom costumes through her Etsy store, Dryad’s Grove, and specializes in making the padded garments historical fighters wear under their armor.

Brayton and Amy Carpenter Brayton and Amy Carpenter own Legendary Costume Works. With over 3 decades combined experience in design and fabrication, they have worked in a variety of textiles, leather, metal and synthetics. Their portfolio showcases a range of genres, and their work has been featured on stage, screen, film, in print media and museums. Working for many companies in the collectibles industry, they create prototypes and samples for domestic and overseas manufacturing. These days their main focus is on leathercraft; designing and manufacuring high end leather costume accessories, pop-culture fashion items and leather project kits and tools under their LCW brand. TEACHERS Tonya Clevenger Tonya Clevenger has been fascinated by historical fashion and costuming for many years. Together with her husband she “timetravels” in as many eras as time allows. A long time attendee and former teacher at Costume College she also is a speaker on various historical subjects and often will be found in fashion shows. She is a docent at Heritage House in Riverside, California, one of the very few remaining 1890s homes in that city. She has a passion for vintage photographs and is an avid collector. When not in her sewing room she can be found scouring antique stores for more photos!

Olivia Competente Olivia Competente /Jewels By Olivia, a jeweler, is a native of San Francisco. With a love of all things jewelry she is versed in metal smithing and her first love fused dichroic glass. Olivia now teaches all things jewelry with her mother Dina Competente at the Sharon Art Studio in San Francisco. I love all things sparkly and colorful.

Air Bubbles Cosplay Arielle Lien is a self-taught costume designer and avid cosplay. She began her costume journey in college and since then, she has designed 7 theatrical productions, including “Chicago.” She has also built over 10 costumes for herself, winning 5 awards. Starting as a seamstress, she has shifted gears towards armor building, props and electronics and wants to share her knowledge with as many people as possible. She can found teaching classes on working with worbla across the Pacific Northwest. In her free time she plays the games, “Destiny” and “Magic the Gathering.”

- www.costumecollege.net - 57 Abby Cox Abby has been studying historic dress for over 10 years, and has specialized in the 18th century. After spending some time as an apprentice milliner and mantua-maker for Colonial Williamsburg, she now works as the vice president of American Duchess and Royal Vintage shoes. Her most recent project has been writing a book with Lauren Stowell (CEO of American Duchess and Royal Vintage Shoes) entitled, “The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking: How to Hand Sew Georgian Gowns and Wear Them with Style,” which was published at the end of 2017.

Rory Cunningham Rory is a professional costume manufacturer and has been in the Costumer’s Union for over 29 years. He’s taught costume construction at UCLA and been a Costume College teacher for over a decade. He has worked on Acadamy Award nominated films as well as several Emmy winning television programs. His career has spanned the big and small screens as well as theme parks, theatre, red carpets and catwalks.

Jeannette Darlington Jeannette has a degree in engineering and a long-standing interest in historical costuming and material culture. TEACHERS

Kristen Darville-Foggie History teacher and history lover, Kristen Darville-Foggie has been sewing for over 10 years, but has really expanded her range of techniques since joining and attending Costume College. As a stay-at-home mother, she is careful with her budget, and needs to think of creative ways to indulge in her costuming hobby!

ChriS DeAngelo Chris DeAngelo enjoys exploring the line between accurately reproducing period techniques and using cutting- edge modern technology. She also delights in the structural elements of period fashion, be it hoops, corsetry, starches or sleeve supports. When not at the laser cutter or sewing machine, she’s probably staring cross-eyed at photos of a garment, trying to figure out how to reverse engineer it. Her current focus is the 19th century, but other eras occasionally sing her their siren song. She shares her successes, failures and tutorials at www. thelacedangel.blogspot.com.

The Lady Detalle The Lady Detalle has been sewing since she was three and began her foray into sewing historical fashion a decade ago, with a special love for the 18th and 19th centuries, her loving husband and silk! She is a historic costumer and re-enactor, dancing at Stratford Hall & other historic houses, loves to spend time at CW, teacher at Dress U and Costume College and won awards for CC2009’s ‘Madame Guillotine’ French court gown. A Masters in business and a busy career, with free time spent sewing and attending events, she shares her passion of sewing & wearing historical fashion at theladydetalle.com and historic accessories Etsy business, ladydetalle.com.

Mary Dotson Mary is a long time costumer with a particular love for medieval and rococo era clothing and a love of making headwear. She is known in the Society for Creative Anachronism as Maria Chiara Datini.

58 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Carolyn Dowdell Carolyn (aka The Modern Mantuamaker) is a dress historian with an MA and PhD specializing in 18th century clothing construction. Over the course of her research she has examined approximately 500 extant 18th century garments. She’s also a 20-year obsessive hobby and professional seamstress who sews both all of her own everyday clothes as well as historical reproduction fashions spanning the 18th to early 20th centuries. Most recently, Carolyn assisted with the DAR museum exhibition, “An Agreeable Tyrant: Fashion After the Revolution” by drafting scaled patterns from several of the garments on display and writing an essay for the catalog.

Elizabeth Emerson Elizabeth Emerson is a collector, curator and costumer specializing in all things trim-related. Her current collection of ribbons and passementerie stands at over 5000 rolls from 1840-1950. The medium of ribbon stretches across many costuming platforms and she has previously taught classes in period appropriate ribbon/trim selection, ribbon for millinery use, silk flowers from ribbon and Victorian pleated and folded trim construction.

Jennifer Erlichman Jennifer has been making costumes since her first Renaissance Faire in 1994. She serves as Musical Director for Belladonna Historical Performers, and is on the Board of Directors for the Guild of St. George - Northern Chapter. She has been making costumes professionally since 2006 for performers from Renaissance Faire through the Dickens Christmas Fair, and her specialty is bridging the gaps between historical accuracy, wearability, and comfort for today’s modern performers.

Sarah Faltesek Sarah Faltesek is never satisfied with her bios, so she decided to list her loves and call it a day. Sarah is a trained anthropologist and hobby costumer, a beekeeper, a flamenco dancer, and self-taught werewolf folklore expert. Ask her about her Feminist Agenda. TEACHERS Christina Forst Christina started historical costuming in her teens, when she grew too tall to purchase them ready-made. Her first love is the Elizabethan era, and she endeavors to spread the Gospel of the Ruff.

Karen Fox Karen Fox began her costuming obsession as a kid, taking apart thrift store finds and making things. While she has drafted and created hand-made historically accurate costumes from the finest silk, she still loves the challenge and creativity of making something from practically nothing. Her experience includes an MA in counseling psychology, a lifetime of dress up, highlighted by experiences as costume director for St Maximilian and Ballet America Nutcracker, as well as co-director of Belladonna Historical Performers and cast member of the Adventures Club at the Great Dickens Christmas Fair.

Julie Fox Julie credits the beginning of her love/hate relationship with crafting and historical costumes to watching The Six Wives of Henry VIII on Masterpiece Theater in the late 1960-early 1970s. She began sewing at the age of 9 and started crafting at age 10, and made her first period costume in 1977. She has continued to study historical costuming since then. Julie is founder of Foxes Period Costumes and has created commission work for historic and cosplay events and weddings since 1983. Her work won accolades at the RWC in 2000, and has owned a small online shop for period clothing since 1996.

- www.costumecollege.net - 59 Liz Gerds Liz has been fascinated by costumes and dress-up since childhood and made her first costumes during her high school years. She has created costumes for stage, historical recreation, equestrian competition, and weddings. Her professional portfolio includes working for AlterYears, FarthingalesLA, Boss Wench, Real Pirates, UCLA TFT and others. Liz is a Past President of the CGW and has been involved with created Costume College from the beginning. After taking a year off she is happy to return as a teacher.

Eric Gerds Eric Gerds has been a part time teacher at Santa Monica College for the past 23+ years. When he is not teaching he has worked in both the Aero Space industry and the entertainment industry. Some of the companies that Eric has worked for over the years include, United States Air Force, Boeing satellite systems, CBS, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Frank Gehry Partners to name a few.

Steven Gillan Steven has headed Clan MacColin of Glenderry, the oldest operating 16th Century Highland and Irish reenactment organization in the United States, since 1982. Through extensive and ongoing research, he has striven to establish and enhance a plausible historic impression for Clan MacColin. His research has been used by many subsequent Highland and Irish reenactment groups from the Middle Ages to the English Civil War. He studied Art History, TEACHERS and is a devotee of pre-industrial wood working.

T. lynn Gomez From film/tv to museums, New York fashion week and re-enactors spanning the globe, T. Lynn Gomez has designed both historical and fantasy wigs, costumes and accessories for some of the most interesting clients through many venues including, “”The Historical Hairdresser.” She hopes to inspire all students to create without fear. Everyone can style hair. Lynn wants to enhance every student’s true beauty from inside her soul.

Tracey Gorin Tracey Gorin has been beading and crafting since she was a young girl, but didn’t begin costuming until 2003. As a beginning seamstress, she found sewing a wonderful challenge, which allowed her to expand her creative repertoire and gave her so much inspiration! Tracey loves learning from others, finding new ways of doing things, and combining talents into new projects. In her non-costuming life, Tracey works as an Audio-Visual Engineer, and loves using technology to support learning and education in a variety of fields!

Annette Grace Annette has been sewing off and on since she was a child — in the past 10 years, the emphasis has been in historical costuming of various eras, while also occasionally branching out to cosplay, fantasy, and steampunk. Annette loves researching various details of each time period such as recipes, culture, and cosmetic/hair techniques. Annette is the president of Historical Citizens Association, volunteers on the Costume College committee, and is a previous CGW board member.

Beth Grover Beth Grover worked in the fashion industry as a patternmaker/technical designer for major brands such as Lucky Brand Jeans and Quiksilver, but loves working on historical costumes most of all. She has a B.A. in History and an A.A. in Fashion Design. This is her first year teaching at Costume College.

60 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Heath Hammond Heath Hammond has worked as an artist for the pop culture community and movie industry for over 16 years. In addition to his artistic talents, his specialties include historical consulting and costume consulting with an emphasis on military attire throughout history, and historical military research. Some of Heath’s exclusive projects include mural and landscape art for the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier for Pamplin Park Civil War Site, in Petersberg, VA. He has worked with such historic artists as Keith Rocco, and fantasy artists, Wendy and Brian Froud. He served in the United States Navy for 11 years as a Combat Crew Chief on helicopters and as a Navy Rescue Swimmer and now is currently working at Anovos Productions as a Creative Manager. Lia Hansen Lia began her involvement in costuming 50 years ago. She is currently the faculty costume and makeup designer and faculty member at Vanguard University, and works with American Coast Theater Company.

Cathy Hay Cathy Hay is the founder of online corset making and costuming site, Foundations Revealed. She is also fortunate enough to be mentor to a group of 15 or so creative entrepreneurs through their 2018 journey. With a weakness for old clothes — very old clothes — and a surplus of ambition, she’d like to think that we are all continuing the work of Worth, making sewing an important art form again (as well as an essential ingredient for our mental health). Cathy belongs both in England and in northern California, suspended between two worlds.

Denise Hendrick Denise Hendrick started her costuming and re-enactment journey over 20 years ago. The hobby eventually led to an apparel design degree, followed by starting Romantic Recollections in 2005. In 2014, Denise launched a line of machine and hand embroidery designs inspired by extant garments and period illustrations in order to help other costumers bring the beauty of historic embroidery to their own projects. TEACHERS Maegen Hensley Maegen Hensley hated what she first wrote (sounded too much like a dang resume), so she’s taking another approach. You know that moment when you’ve found your “people” and you can’t shut up about all the neat things you make, the hundreds of things you plan to make, and the thousand things you will never make? That’s Maegen. She’s a talker about her love for costuming. Come to her classes and feed her addiction. Oh and she works for Anovos, is Assistant Dean, and has been on the CoCo committee longer than her daughter has been alive.

Heather Hofshi Heather Hofshi lives in San Diego with her time-traveling family. She has been costuming for ten years and enjoys most eras from the ancient to the far future.

Katrina Homer In 1987 Katrina visited DC with her family and while at the Smithsonian found herself dressed as a Revolutionary War Minute Man. Katrina has been playing dress up ever since ...

- www.costumecollege.net - 61 Meg Horan Meg is a sewing educator and historic costumer. She has been sewing for over a decade, and has a degree in Costume Construction and Design. Pattern drafting and draping are her passions. She loves hot mugs of tea, reading the manual, and anything Agatha Christie.

Mela Hoyt-Heydon Mela Hoyt-Heydon is a union costume designer for the entertainment industry. She also serves as chairman of the Theatre Arts Department at Fullerton College, which has one of the largest costume construction programs in the United States. On the non-theatrical side of her life, she was a speaker at Colonial Williamsburg’s Millinery Symposium last year. She is a member of Fashion Council, Costume Society of America, The United States Institute of Theater Technology and United Scenic Artists. Her recent costume design work includes The Drowsy Chaperone, Memphis, Jane Eyre, The Complete Female Stage Beauty and her company, Atelier Mela, just completed costumes for Shanghai Disney. Mary Johns Mary has been sewing historical costumes for 20 years, and runs the costume department at Riley’s Farm. She loves sharing knowledge and learning new things. TEACHERS

Maryann Jones Maryann has been costuming forever and specialized in costuming for kids.

Zoe Jones Zoe has been making costumes and practicing fiber arts since her teens. For several years she has been fascinated by the history of lace as well as techniques of lacemaking. She loves research so much you will rarely see her in a finished costume!

Mal Keller Evidenced by a more than 20 year career creating magical things in the fields of film, television, comics and toys, Malaki strives for a unique look in all he creates. Whether detailing artwork, crafting props and costumes, or designing and building toys, each of his creations develops its own sense of personality. Past credits include Alien Resurrection and Starship Troopers on film, Star Trek Deep Space 9 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV, as well as Airwalk and Heineken advertising campaigns. Working in foam, clay, resin, plastic, wood, or any other material to get the job done, he has even worked with chocolate!

Sophia Khan Sophia is a historical costuming enthusiast and professional technical designer at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Focusing on Mid 18th through Mid 20th Century fashions, recreations, and research. She received her BFA in Fashion Design from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

62 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Jen Lemus Jen has been sewing historical clothing for 15 years, focusing in the Victorian era. She was taught to follow a commercial pattern by her grandmother on a Singer Featherweight, only catching the historical clothing bug in college. Meticulous in her detailing, Jennifer struggles with leaving a seam unfinished and strives to make beautiful, accurate garments that are pretty inside and out. Jen works in STEM, and has been known to get very mathy in her dress making. She once figured out the puff ratio on a hem treatment using trigonometry, proving that yes, you can use this stuff in real life!

Adam Lid Adam Lid has worked for the past 20 years as a historical consultant/instructor/technical coordinator specializing in military and fashion history with an emphasis on the 1870 to 1920 era. More recently, he has been working as a design consultant at Lily Absinthe, a business specializing in historically-based clothing that is owned and operated by him and his wife Karin. Adam also has an interest in the history of the American West, spending time at his other residence in Tombstone, Arizona. When he is not working, he spends time working with his horse and studying the history of cavalry.

Lana Lily Lana Lily is a lover of history, with a passion for detailed research of historical clothing. She received a degree in Fashion Design from FIDM and has more than 20 years experience as a historical reenactor. Lana enjoys sharing her knowledge of historical techniques by teaching classes at various venues which can be found at www.lanalily. com and offering historical millinery through www.etsy.com/shop/NorthSouthEmporium. Involvement in the CGW resulted in the honor of being Dean of Costume College 2007

Gina Lovin I’m just your average home sewer who loves historical costuming. I’ve been sewing for 50 years but only costuming history for maybe 6 years. I especially love the hats and bonnets that bring an ensemble to life and the under foundations that give those very historic silhouettes. TEACHERS Rebecca Lowell Prior to graduating from FIDM with degrees in Fashion Design and Costume Design for Film & Television, Rebecca spent about eight years involved in re-enactment, learning various historical sewing and construction techniques. She has a love of research, teaching, and all things vintage. Rebecca is a past CGW President and Dean Emeritus. She currently works as a Soft Goods Prototyper for ANOVOS, has a vintage resale business, and coordinates an annual vintage doll convention.

Constance MacKenzie Constance is a professional Costume Maker for Theatre, film, TV with a life long love of Historical Costume. Recent work has been for Mary Poppins Returns, Wonder Woman, Dickensian and Downton Abbey. She has also made costumes for Glyndebourne Opera House and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. She started her costume- making career at Kentwell Hall, in England taking part in sixteenth century reenactment when she was 12 and has not stopped dressing up since.

Rebecca Maiten Rebecca Maiten is an actor and costumer living in the Seattle area, and has been fascinated with historical fashions for as long as she can remember. She started sewing in high school, and has been creating historical costumes since 2010, both for herself and as commissions. Rebecca loves sewing costumes of any era, from the 18th c through Edwardian, and also specializes in Disney Princess dress reproductions. She is also one of the founders of the Puget Sound Historical Costumers Guild. More information can be found at LadyRebeccaFashions.com.

- www.costumecollege.net - 63 Sandy Manning Sandra Manning teaches math and science in the bush of Alaska but has been involved in costuming since she was 15 years old. She has been involved with masquarades at Science Fiction Conventions and has taught at costume college in the past.

Lauren Maringola Lauren is the lady behind Wearing History sewing patterns and blog. She has been a historical and vintage costume addict for over twenty years and has worked professionally for theatre, indie film, and her own company. She is a graduate of FIDM where she obtained a degree in Fashion Design and also studied Costume Design for Film and Television.

Paige Mattern I am a self taught costumer, I have been costuming for over 30 years. I dabble in Renaissance, Victorian, Regency, Steampunk, and Fantasy costumes. TEACHERS

Sandra Maxwell Author, historian and teacher, Sandra Maxwell has been an active costumer and re-enactor for fifty years. After winning many Science Fiction Masquerade awards, she became involved with the Renaissance Faire for nearly twenty years. She has participated in many fashions shows and her closet holds dresses from Medieval to the nineteen twenties. Currently she is a member of the Great War Historical Society, teaching about WWI through her impression of a Salvation Army Doughnut Dolly -- an impression that has received praise from the Salvation Army itself.

Susan McDonald Sue McDonald is a long-time seamstress and loves to dress in period attire. Early in her re-enactment career, she discovered how difficult and expensive it is to acquire all the accessories needed to make an outfit complete, so she set out to make them. Sue has given lectures and workshops at Costume College over the last five years in making a buckram hat, making a Victorian-style purse, and creating beaded- bead hatpins and pendants. She also makes custom hats and clothing by request, and offers some of her creations at www.bustledress.com.

Lynn McMasters Lynn McMasters has tried her hand at almost everything that one can do with a sewing machine, from everyday clothes to period costumes for porcelain dolls, educational puppets and costumes for such places as the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Point Reyes National Sea Shore and Santa Barbara Botanical Gardens. In the past 10 years, she has concentrated on period hats and has started a line of period hat patterns. Examples of her work can be seen on her website, http://lynnmcmasters.com. Lynn has taught at Costume College, the GBACG Costume Academy, and workshops at SCA Arts and Sciences. She teaches corset making, millinery and Elizabethan embellishment-related classes, as well. Natalie Meyer I have been sewing since I was 5. I started making costumes in the 1980s with a series of Superman costumes as my nephew grew. I Became interested in historical sewing when I became a docent at Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles. I was Dean of Costume College twice and have been a teacher for about 15 years.

64 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Christine Millar Christine Millar has been a costume lover all her life. In particular, she loves all things rococo, in particular their over the top embellishments, such as embroidery, laces, trims, etc.. With a personal motto focused on always remembering to have fun, she specializes in making time for hobbies, even when life gets in the way. When not costuming, she enjoys putting people to sleep (her day job), playing esoteric board games, and painting miniatures for tabletop games set 40,000 years in the future.

Jess Miller Jess Miller has been costuming since discovering the Renaissance Faire, the SCA and science fiction fandom all in the same year. She has a BA in Art, emphasis textiles, and further coursework in Anthropology, which just makes her that more confused. She has run local masquerades, is a Past Dean of Costume College and will discuss costume for hours on end.

Margaret Monos Playing dress up was Margaret’s favorite game as a child and nothing has changed. Having learned to sew in 3rd grade, it is something that still gets her creative juices flowing. Margaret focuses on early 20th Century but also enjoys creating costumes for Regency, Victorian and Fantasy. Last year she began her journey into the 18th Century.

Ed Morlan Ed started costuming before he even knew it by designing and sewing his own gear for military trainings and finding his way to an occasional movie set. While on movie sets, he met a group of guys who managed to get him to a real reenactment and ever since he has been very involved in costuming. He runs his own sutler store at reenactments, hand-making both wood and leather products. He’s honed his leather skills and enjoys teaching at CoCo. Ed is a civil war reenactor, 13th century longbow archer, Rev War Longhunter, and dabbles in Roman, Greek, WW2 Navy, Fantasy and Sci-Fi. TEACHERS Jennifer Mulvey Jennifer Mulvey has been a part of the costuming hobby for over 7 years, wherein she has served on both the Costume College Committee for a number of years and the CGW, Inc. Board of Directors. She enjoys all aspects of costuming from historical Civil War reenacting to sci-fi / fantasy. Jennifer is a “certified” friend maker and loves to welcome new people in the costuming world, so she has hosted the Freshman Orientation for the last number of years. Never claiming to be an expert, she is always glad to lend a hand whenever a costume is in need.

Gail Nichols Gail Nichols has been involved with costuming for many years. She began making Star Wars costumes for her children in “a galaxy, far far away”. She then worked in a costume shoppe in Santa Cruz doing the full gamut; sales, making costumes for inventory, and designing and creating for custom jobs. For the past 20 years she has worked for the Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival in conjunction with UCSC, in the costume shoppe and worked in the capacity of Master-Stitcher and First Hand for the summer and holiday productions. She continues to work for “Santa Cruz Shakespeare” in its new independent state. Gail has taught at creative retreats, assisted other teachers, and mentored native artisans in Peru with product design and development. Kim Oriold Kim has a love of all things 18th century and started making 18th century costumes 8 years ago. She soon realized that a beautiful costume requires both beautiful accessories and the perfect hairstyle. After much trial and error, she came upon a relatively simple technique to achieve the classic “pouf and buckle” hairstyle favored in the mid to late 18th century. Recently she opened her Etsy store – Queen and Cavendish, which specializes in unique reproduction and inspired 18th century jewelry design.

- www.costumecollege.net - 65 Jennifer Rosbrugh Jennifer delights in the nostalgia of the past and brings it into her modern life by creating historical ensembles. Since 2008 she has been connecting with others around the world who also love costuming and dream of the past. She runs the Historical Sewing blog and hosts popular online sewing classes at Classes.HistoricalSewing.com. After making her clothes for over 30 years Jennifer has developed a penchant for 1870s bustle dresses and crazy 1830s fashions; although, the 18th century now calls strongly. She loves dark chocolate, God’s grace, and is a long- time teacher at Costume College.

Diana Rotheneder Diana Rotheneder loves fabrics and creating lovely historical clothing, which means that her costume closet is larger than her regular closet. She has done the gamut of renaissance faires, the SCA, individual costume events, costume balls, and Dickens Fair. She has learned many things over the years and taught many classes at Costume College and beyond, and she wants to share that knowledge with you.

Laura Rubin Laura Rubin is an aggressively interdisciplinary researcher, writer, and costumer living and working in the Silicon Valley. She brings together the history of dress and technology, with an emphasis in experimental archaeology and primary source research. She also lectures in history and theory in exchange for cocktails. TEACHERS

Nicole Rudolph Nicole is currently a graduate student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln studying costume history. Her particular interest is in shoes, and she has been a practicing historical shoemaker for 7 years.

Carolyn Runnells Carolyn was bitten by the costuming bug in 1997 after receiving two complete 1872 ensembles created for a docent in Virginia City, NV. Since that time Carolyn has traveled the world using costumes to bring historical talks to life aboard cruise ships, covering time periods Renaissance to Edwardian. Carolyn also developed the video “History Undressed” sold on Amazon and has presented this show to various service organizations as Edutainment. Teaching sharing information is a passion that Carolyn has enjoyed and looked forward to doing for years to come.

J.P. Ryan J.P. Ryan is a Costume Historian, Designer, and Pattern Maker who specializes in the last half of the 18th and the early 19th century. Her international following is anxiously awaiting the release of her next pattern, an early Regency jacket.

Andy Schmidt Andy Schmidt’s experience with costuming goes back to 1979 when he became a member of the Queen’s Court at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Agoura, CA, and had to produce his own costumes. When he took up photography as a serious pursuit in 2007, people told him, “Shoot what you know,” so he began shooting re-enactment events, posting his images on Facebook under the moniker of the Shotwell Collection. In 2010 and 2011, he came to Costume College to shoot the Red Carpet, and he was invited to serve as the official Studio Photographer in 2012. Kristine Scott Sosa One of Kristine’s first memories of her Dad, was going to the 5 and dime store and picking out floss, hoop, needle and pattern to embroider something. That was her toy. Lifetime seamstress and long time teacher. Fashion historian, social anthropologist. Corset maker. She wears many hats! She did hair and make up for TV and movies in the 90s. After ruining her knees as an EMT, she has come full circle and is back to stitching and sewing and crafting all day long. PSBCreations.com is her baby. Bringing history to life is what makes her happy!

Cindy Settje Cynthia Settje is the owner of Redthreaded, a small business specializing in historical corsetry and theatrical costumes in Boulder, CO. Her clients span the range from Broadway shows to individual reenactors and costume enthusiasts. She has a BFA in costume technology and has worked professionally in costume shops throughout the US, including the Santa Fe Opera and the CO Shakespeare Festival. She loves costuming for the way it uniquely combines artistry, textiles, engineering, history, storytelling and collaboration.

Taylor Shelby Taylor Shelby is the owner of Dames a la Mode, a company that reproduces Georgian-era jewelry. She lives in Washington DC.

Hallie Smith Costumer, cosplayer, LARPer, crafter, knitter, all around making stuff junkie. Firm believer in the idea that “finished is better than perfect.” TEACHERS Trish Sova Trish has been sewing since age 5 and costuming for about the last 20 years. She has worked as a receptionist, IT help desk, and at two different independent fabric stores. Now she works at the costume shop of the Detroit Opera House, when she isn’t volunteering with the local Boy Scout Troops. Historical costume is her passion but she also enjoys cosplaying with friends.

Tracey Spencer I was first introduced to bobbin lace in 1995 while I was traveling in Belgium and bought my first pillow, book and bobbins and had them shipped home. In 1996 I moved to England and took my bobbin lace pillow and supplies with me. I found a couple of lace groups and learned to make bobbin lace. I returned to the U.S. and have continued to make lace and do demonstrations for various craft fairs and historical events. I enjoy sharing the history of lace and telling stories of lace makers.

Deah Sperling Schmidt Deah Sperling-Schmidt’s experience with costuming goes back to 1978 when she became involved with re- enactment at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Agoura, CA. Through the years, she has created costumes for herself and her daughter for RPF in Agoura and Novato, The Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco and the NorCal Pirate Festival in Vallejo. She has assisted her husband, Andy, in the Photo Studio at Costume College since 2012.

- www.costumecollege.net - 67 Joni Steinmann I studied abroad, I choose a more theoretical art history bachelor over practical Art as my study. For my Masters degree I trained as a textile conservator, but having worked as one for 3 years, I started to feel the unaddressed desire to create. Over the years, I have tried many different art media as a hobby, but it wasn’t until I started making corsets and costumes, that I could fully express my creativity. When I admitted to myself, that I am in fact a designer and founded the Rainbow Curve Corsetry label in 2015, I truly found my passion.

Lisa Stewart Lisa is a sewing and digitizing educator living in Colorado. With a degree in Fine Art, she loves crocheting, quilting, embroidery and garment construction. Surface design and mixed textiles feature strongly in her work, and she often integrates several fiber art techniques into each project

Kristin Stonham Born into a line of sewers, Kristin is sure hr grandmothers would never have thought of all the things she’d do with what they taught her! Over a decade after watching a costume competition and declaring to a friend “We can do that too!”, she’s still going strong, dabbling in every type of fabric craft she can get her hands on. TEACHERS

Lauren Stowell Lauren Stowell is a historical costumer focusing on 18th century women’s dress. She is an author, blogger, footwear and pattern designer, and CEO of American Duchess Inc. and Royal Vintage Shoes LLC.

Christina Stroffolino After assisting her husband Malaki Keller on countless costume builds, it was inevitable that Christina (AKA: Mombie Zombie ) would be bitten by the creative bug. Her main passion became Resin and Urethane casting for which she uses to create many wonderful geeky fandom pieces. Her many years of “Out of the box” thinking has led to a remarkable understanding of tools and techniques for which she is happy to impart to you all.

Feather Tippetts Feather Tippetts-Rosica, of Grand Gestures Historical Costume and Historical Embroidery, is a premier award-winning costumer specializing in historic garments. Her work has been displayed in museums in Washington, DC, as well as museums in California. She brings a wealth of research and knowledge to her programs and workshops on historical costume.

Kendra Van Cleave Kendra Van Cleave has been creating and studying historic costumes for over 20 years (although we won’t talk about those early mishaps). She also is a fashion historian, specializing in the 18th Century. She has recently published a book on 18th Century Hair & Wig styling (www.18thcenturyhair.com), and is working on an academic book about Turkish influence on 18th century dress.

68 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Jenny-Rose White Jenny-Rose White is a professionally licensed Hair & Make-Up Artist based in Northern Virginia, specializing in Bridal, Special Events & Historical Styling. She became fascinated by historical fashion and costuming at an early age, and has been sewing historically inspired costumes for over 20 years. Jenny-Rose is fascinated by many eras of historical fashion and hairstyling but c1775-1810 is the one that makes her heart flutter. She is the webmistress of jennylafleur.com and the proprietress of the JennylaFleur Shoppe, an online shop selling Aids and Accessories for Historic Hair Styling hosted on Etsy.

Kathryn Wolters Kathryn Wolters has been a costume /jewelry/accessory ‘junkie’ since age 9 when she first learned to sew her Barbie’s clothes. After that, she was sewing most of her own junior high and high school wardrobes, as well as clothing adult sized Barbies, Kens, Skippers, and pretty much anyone who stood still in front of her long enough. Kathryn has played and taught along the way with lots of different groups, SCA, Friends of the English Regency, Past Times with Good Company. The words ‘lifetime addictions ‘ come to mind.

Diane Yoshitomi Diane Yoshitomi has been at home with needle and thread in hand since age nine when her grandmother taught her the basics of crewel embroidery. By her 20s she was making all of her own clothes, and after entering fashion design school she designed many of them as well. She began to “dress historical” in the 1990s while a docent at a Victorian house museum, and now enjoys recreating the fashions of 1800 to 1950. She credits Costume College with the skills and acquaintanceships which continue to open ever-widening horizons of costuming creativity.

Theresa Zimmerman No biography available at this time. TEACHERS

- www.costumecollege.net - 69 HISTORY OF COSTUME COLLEGE DEANS & THEMES

2018 Valarie LaBore —- Dressing the Royals 2017 Heather Pritchett —- The 60s: Vintage Daydreams 2016 Dani Crum —- Counter Culture: Rebels, Revolutionaries, & Subversives 2015 Rebecca Howard/Lowell —- Plucked from the Pages: Your Favorite Literary Characters 2014 Mela Hoyt-Hayden —- Finishing Touches: The Art & Craft of Accessories 2013 Natalie Meyer —- Cavalier, with a Touch of Pirate THE ROYAL PARADE 2012 Rebecca Metzger —- The Golden Age of Hollywood: 1930-1955 2011 Elizabeth Reed — Medieval; Glorious Gothic to Artistic Reform & Beyond 2010 Colleen Crosby —- Steampunk 2009 Maegen Hensley —- 18th Century 2008 Martha Davis —- Regency Era: 1795-1825 2007 Lana Bailey —- Crinoline Era: 1840s-1860s 2006 Jody Regan —- Ragtime Era: 1920s 2005 Corinne Pleger —- Age of Chivalry (Medieval) 2004 Mary Hooper —- Gay ‘90s (1890s) 2003 Laura Rico —- The Age of the Bustle 2002 Natalie Meyer —- The Edwardian Era 2001 Darla Kruger —- The Art of Embellishment 2000 Darla Kruger —- Celebrating the Costume Maker’s Art Through the Millenia 1999 Jess Miller —- Fin de Siecle; at the End of the ‘90s 1998 Robin Pavlosky —- Elizabethan 1997 Robin Pavlosky —- Costuming for the Performer 1996 Bruce Briant —- Georgian 1995 Mela Hoyt-Heydon —- Bustle 1994 Cat Deveroux —- 1840-1860; the Era of the Hoop 1993 Janet Wilson Anderson —- Regency 1992 Janet Wilson Anderson —- No theme

70 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - About Costumer's Guild West, Attention All Attendees: Inc.® & Costume College® Very Important – Legal Information Your Photograph may be taken at the Costume College® 2018 Event.

Costumer’s Guild West, Inc. (CGW) is a non-profit, volunteer As is customary at many of our events, photographs of run, charitable/educational organization dedicated to the art participants and their guests are taken and posted on the web. of costuming. Born in the science fiction community, CGW We believe that the use of these photographs enhances the has expanded to include a large number of historic and master overall event experience by the participants. This practice will costumers. CGW members range from those who just love occur at Costume College 2018. There is a real possibility looking at costumes, to passionate amateurs and professional that your photograph may be taken by us, or attendees, and costumers. CGW runs year ’round, with Costume College thereafter posted on the Web. By attending Costume College, being our largest gathering each year. you give your consent to the posting of such photographs by us, or others, and waive all rights and claims with respect to the At Costume College, we meet as equals. Everyone has posting of such photographs. something to teach, and we all have things to learn. We purposefully don’t have a masquerade or hall costume awards, While we have no control over other people websites, the so we can keep our focus on sharing information and learning CGW, Inc. does not list names with the photos on our website. from on another. We hope that you will forge new friendships, If you would like your photo removed, please contact the Web renew old ones and generally have a good time. Mistress. Reference “Costume College’ in the subject line to avoid being considered “spam.” Though Costume College is our main focus, CGW sponsors other costume-related events throughout the year. We hold It is harassment to continue to photograph someone who workshops, very similar to Costume College classes: some are specifically asks you not to take photographs of them or their lectures and some are “hands-on creation of items” classes. belongings. IF someone asks you not to take such a photo, Our ticketed events include costumed teas and picnics, as well please comply with their request. as visits to costume exhibits with special lectures. Non-ticketed, costumed meet-ups are scheduled for movie openings and Please practice respect with regard to artist proprietary work, outings to no-host locations like Disneyland, a bowling alley, copyrights, etc. when enjoying the marketplace. We strongly and local dances. recommend you do not take photographs in the marketplace itself. If you do, and any vendor and/or artist asks you to stop Because CGW is an educational organization, we also have photographing their work, booth, space, etc., please do so an outreach program. We sponsor fashion shows that are immediately — it is the right of the vendor to protect their fundraisers at local museums. We award Costume College unique artistry from copying and counterfeiting. We enjoy an scholarships during masquerades at local conventions and the unusually high caliber of vendor in our Marketplace, so let’s costume contest at the Los Angeles County Fair. We also have keep them coming back! a Costume College Scholarship program to assist beginning costumers or those in financial need or those who have served

CGW. Costume College Policies THE MINOR EDICTS

Help is always needed to make Costume College and CGW a Conferences bring a large group of diverse people together. success. Volunteers are joyfully welcomed at the volunteers Even though we all have a love of costumes in common, we table when you have a spare hour during Costume College. If come from varying backgrounds. Remember that someone that you have a little more time, you may want to host a CGW event, you see only once or twice a year or have only just met, may and we can always use assistance with our newsletter or our have a different comfort level — verbally, visually, and physically website, even if you are located outside Southern California. If — than you do. you want to be even more involved, please do consider joining the Costume College committee as an assistant or a department Anti-harassment head, or becoming an event coordinator, or running for a Any action or behavior that causes significant interference position on the Board of Directors. with convention operations, excessive discomfort to other attendees, or adversely affects the convention’s relationship You can find Costume College at http://www.costumecollege. with its guests, its venues or the public is strictly forbidden and net/ and Costumer’s Guild West at www.costumersguild.net may result in permanent suspension of membership. And when you meet other people who are passionate about costuming, let them know about us, too! What is harassment? Harassment is generally any behavior that causes discomfort or alarms or threatens another person or group.

- www.costumecollege.net - 71 Here are some examples of harassment: What should I do if I see someone else being harassed? • Offensive verbal comments about sex, pregnancy, gender, Ask the person being harassed if they are okay. Offer to help gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, them find an appropriate board or committee member to report sexuality or marital status. the problem to, or stay with them while someone else finds • Offensive verbal comments about physical or mental help. disability, physical appearance or body size. • Offensive verbal comments about race, color, ancestry, During the registration process on site, look for the photos of national origin or religion. board and committee members, so you will know who can help • Offensive verbal comments about age, genetic in case such a need arises. characteristics, or a history or diagnosis of cancer. (The characteristics listed in these four bullet points are the What can I do if someone accuses me of harassment? “protected characteristics.”) • Sustained disruption of classes, talks or other events. Participants asked to stop harassing behavior must comply • Leering, staring or suggestive gestures. immediately. • Stalking or following someone around a public area without their consent. If someone makes a complaint against you, listen, and be aware • Repeated requests for dates or requests for sexual favors. that your actions may not have come off as you intended them. If this has occurred, be prepared to apologize, sincerely and

THE MINOR EDICTS • Showing sexual images or carrying out sexual activities in public spaces. without qualifiers. Please understand that, in such a situation, • Epithets, slurs, negative stereotyping, offensive jokes the safety of guests is the highest priority. or offensive visual materials related to a protected characteristic. Dress Code • Any written, visual or graphic material that denigrates When you are in classes, you don’t need to wear a costume, or shows hostility or aversion to an individual or group as they can be a distraction to other students and keep you because of a protected characteristic. from getting the most out of your class. Dress for comfort. It is • Photographing or recording someone when you have always recommended that you have a sweater, jacket, or wrap. been asked not to. Hotels can get very cold. • Uninvited physical contact, including touching, grabbing, patting, pinching, hugging, kissing. When donning a costume or deciding what to wear to an event, • Threatening to physically attack someone. in the hallways, and public spaces, try to think of Costume • Sexual assault. College as a PG-13 event. • Graphic verbal commentaries about an individual’s body, sexually degrading words used to describe an individual, or obscene letters, notes or invitations. Weapons • Harassing communications via letters, phone calls, Costumes sometimes come in the form e-mails, text messaging or social media. of characters with weapons, and in • Prohibited harassment includes gender-based harassment many cases, these weapons look quite of an individual of the same sex as the harasser. real. Convention operations prefers that these items be peace bonded. A peace bond is a very visible lock or What do I do if I am being harassed? tie on a realistic looking weapon to make clear to security and to police In some cases you may find the harassment stops if you clearly that it is not intended to be used for say ‘no’ or ‘please leave me alone’, or simply walk away. We violent purposes. The peace bond will would appreciate it if a Costume College Committee or CGW usually come in the form of a zip tie over the trigger such that it Board member was informed right away to help us identify any couldn’t be pulled or holding a bladed weapon in the sheath. If repeat offenders. you have a costume with a realistic-looking weapon, please stop in to Ops to have them check it. If you continue to be harassed, don’t hesitate to ask for the Dean or the President. We will mediate the situation, help you • All weapons must conform to state and federal law. All contact venue security or law enforcement, or otherwise assist weapons must be non-functional. you to feel safe during the conference. • Weapons may not be pointed at another person except in a non-threatening manner for the purposes of exhibition or Costume College will not retaliate against an individual for photographs. coming forward with a complaint of • Weapons or Costumes that are deemed by Ops to be a harassment. safety hazard for any reason will be banned. • Use of a weapon in an inappropriate, negligent or threatening manner is forbidden and may result in suspension of membership.

72 - Costume College® July 26-30, 2018 - Costume College Committee Costumer's Guild West, Inc. 2018 2018 Board of Directors “ TEAM ROYAL” Dean…………………………..Valarie LaBore President ...... Mela Hoyt-Heydon Assistant Dean ……………...Maegen Hensley Vice President ...... Cynthia Aronin Bargain Basement …………..Carolyn Richardson Recording Seccretary ...... Cheryl Avriom Assistant ………………………Tao Will Treasurer ...... Sarah Pierce Caught on Camera ………….Birda Hussey Nichols Corresponding Secretary ...... Heather Pritchett Assistant ……………………...Sarah Pierce Director at Large ...... Colleen Crosby Check-In ……………………...Gina Cowley Director at Large ...... Shawn Crosby Assistant ……………………….Sarah Pierce Director at Large ...... Valarie LaBore Costume Exhibits ……………Cynthia Aronin Assistant ……………………….Lana Wilkinson Friday Night Social ………….Kristen Darville Foggie Assistant ……………………….Joyce Bolin Gala Mistress & Master ……..Jennifer Mulvey & Ed Morlan Red Carpet …………………….David Grace Hotel Liaison ………………… Maegen Hensley Hospitality ……………………. Darlene Hamilton Assistant ……………………....Stephen Saunders Information ……………………Sara Bacon Assistant ……………………….Heidi Pritchett For the latest Assistant ……………………….Maryann Jones Assistant ……………………….Zoe Jones Costume College Information Marketplace …………………..Lois Munera visit our website: OPS …………………………….Eileen Smolenski Co-Ops ………………………..Pat Smolenski www.costumecollege.net Assistant ……………………….Allison Lockhart OPS-Technology …………….Shawn Crosby Pool Party ……………………...Jess Miller Programming-Teachers …….Maria Aceituno Assistant ………………………. Erin Devine Programming-Students ……..Tracey Gorin Assistant ………………………..Karen Norris Assistant-Proofreader ………..Jane Cadieux Assistant-Panic Room ………..Julie Fox Publications/Signage ………..Sara Reeve Assistant ………………………..Rebecca Howard Portrait Studio …………………Sandy Manning Photographers Studio ………..Andrew Schmidt Raffles …………………………...Darlene Grodske FROM THE PARLIAMENT FROM Registrar ………………………...Rebecca Metzger Assistant ………………………...Annette Grace Roommates ……………………..Amy Randall Social Media …………………….Rebecca Thelin Assistant ………………………...Julie Fox For more information about Assistant ………………………...Geri Rex Assistant-APP …………………..Heather Pritchett Costumer's Guild West, Inc. Sunday Breakfast ……………….Denise Hendricks Please visit our website: Tea ………………………………..Cindy Piselli Assistant ………………………...Birda Hussey Nichols www.cgwcostumers.org Tours -Fabric District ………...Natalie Meyer Tours - Costume Safaris ………Mary Llewellyn Treasurer ………………………...Sarah Pierce Or write to: Volunteers ……………………….Tana Donaghy Costumer's Guild West, Inc. Assistant ………………………….Kristen Darville Foggie Web Team ……………………….Gillian Bailey 1917 Crestshire Drive Assistant ………………………….Kate Salter Glendale, CA 91208 Assistant ………………………….Colleen Crosby - www.costumecollege.net - 73