TA 430: Costume Craft

Costume Craft class introduces technical skills in pattern drafting, sewing, fabric dye, and costume accessory construction, including some basic to more advanced millinery techniques. Basic technical skills are preferred but not required. Each student researches and fully constructs several costume accessory pieces from historical era. Examples are Elizabethan collars, corsets, headdresses, hats, hoop skirts or crinolines, spats for shoe/boot covers. In class students learn time management, budgeting, and decision making in addition to gaining their technical skills by working with specific materials used in costuming.