Costuming Made Easy

Author: Barb Rogers
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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

Costumes, Accessories, Props, and Stage Illusions Made Easy

Author: Barb Rogers
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Transform common people into superheroes, movie stars, witches -- whatever illusion you want to create. Creative costuming is all in the details. One garment can take on many totally different looks depending on how you accessorise it. Over the years, the author has learned all the tricks about how anyone can turn leftover clothing into fabulous costumes. This book's numerous drawings explain in detail the costuming process of 'turning straw into gold'. It shows you how to design illusions that you never thought possible. Yes, you can easily do all this -- and at a minimum expense! This is another Barb Rogers must have book for your library of costume ideas.

Instant Period Costumes

Author: Barb Rogers
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN: 9781566080705
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Why spend a small fortune to rent expensive period costumes when you can create them yourself for less than a day's rental price? Make them the easy way from cast-offs without sewing! Included in this book are over 100 ingenious costume designs with photographs and diagrams for many period characters from Egyptian, Greek and Roman all the way to Punk. These conversion costuming ideas will save you time, money and deadline disasters and give you precisely the costume you want.

Elegantly Frugal Costumes

Author: Shirley Dearing
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
ISBN: 9780916260880
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
Everything you need to know about making costumes for plays, pageants, musicals... at minimum expense.

Rita's Rabbit

Author: Laura Mucha
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571352758
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
Be careful what you wish for!Rita really really really wanted a rabbit.Spike was NOT a rabbit.He was scaly, scary, scratchy, scrabbly, scrawny, speckled and spiky.Rita is so very sure she wants a fluffy pet rabbit and NOT a scaly, scratchy bearded dragon called Spike . . . But when a fussy, grouchy, messy rabbit comes to stay, she discovers they aren't necessarily as adorable as they seem. Spike saves the day and Rita is very glad to be rid of the rabbit and very in love with her speckled, scrawny, spiky pet.A very funny text wonderfully complemented by Hannah Peck's witty artwork.

Fly Guy and the Frankenfly (Fly Guy #13)

Author: Tedd Arnold
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545795699
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

Book Description
Buzz dreams about Frankenfly--but Fly Guy is a friend, not a monster! In the latest installment of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling Fly Guy series, Buzz and Fly Guy spend a day together playing some spooky games and doing arts and crafts projects. When Buzz goes to bed, Fly Guy stays awake and is "bizzie"! Buzz has a nightmare that a gigantic Frankenfly monster is out to get him! But when he wakes up, all he sees is Fly Guy, who fell asleep making posters showing that he and Buzz are best friends.The wacky dream scene involving Frankenfly is fun and hilarious, not scary. Buzz awakens to a sweet message of friendship that is nothing to be afraid of.

Patterns for Theatrical Costumes

Author: Katherine Strand Holkeboer
Publisher: Costume & Fashion Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
An amazing resource book filled with detailed costume patterns to trace, cut out and assemble. The patterns illustrated range from Ancient Egypt to 1915 and include trims and accessories. The basic pattern shapes allow the designer's creativity free range. Gowns tunics, headdresses, jackets, robes breeches - the patterns will produce an accurate silhouette for each time period, leaving the costumer free to explore variations of cut and surface embellishment within an historic framework. Holkeboar also gives step-by-step instructions for making corsets and hoop petticoats, hats, crowns, and even masks and wigs. The patterns are multiple-sized and easy to adapt and elaborate upon so they may be used opver and over again to create a completely different look each time beause you add the all-important details. The basics are here - just add inspiration!

Glue & Go Costumes for Kids

Author: Holly Cleeland
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780806992839
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Book Description
This book presents over 25 projects for costumes, including a cupcake, cell phone, speedboat, piggy bank, and birdhouse.

Jane Asher's Costume Book

Author: Jane Asher
Publisher: Open Chain Pub
ISBN: 9780932086310
Category : Costume.
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Over 100 costumes for children and adults and how to make them.

Hollywood Costume

Author: Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419709821
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2012.