The show we’re working on right now is William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. We’re setting it loosely in 1968-72, and we’re making a few costume items rather than buying. Really, you can buy so much for the late 60′s/early 70′s that it’s silly to make your own unless you have specific things you …
Alyssa and I have a few completely indispensable assets at NFDC, and one of them is Tiffany, our #1 Minion. This is a guest post, since there is a lot to write about from Two Gents, and Tiff worked on the majority of the vests.
Several of the costumes from our plot for Comedy of Errors relied on Simplicity 5359. We had originally planned on using a separate bellydancing pattern for one of these outfits, but time and the reality of our fabric dictated that using 5359 was the way to go. What follows is my review of the pattern, …