Our friends at Once Upon a Party have a dainty Ariel who needed alterations so she wasn’t swimming in her gown. (Get it? Ariel swimming in her gown? Anywho…) Ariel’s dress is 4″ too wide around her bodice, and the front and back yokes need to be more narrow. The…
I’ve wanted to try couching on my Bernina 790+ and our theater recently (March 2024) produced Legally Blonde. That majorette jacket in the law school application scene was the perfect opportunity to give it a try! Our talented Elle is tiny but mighty, so the first step was getting a…
Yes! That really is the name of the character! It’s a long one! 🤣 After our team searched Amazon and the internet for a period appropriate yellow suit, they asked if we could make a custom suit for the show. Knowing this one will probably never be used again, we…
Do you have a problem finding jeans that fit just right in the seat, but then gap at the waist? Ugh! No worries – there’s a pretty simple fix for this! After taking measurements to see how much to shorten the waistband, I seam ripped the top of the center…
My client had a pair of pants she almost really liked. See these odd pleats across the knees? And then the legs were wide but too wide without being wide enough to be cute, flared legs – know what I mean? I told her I thought we could help her…
Our theater asked us to create costumes for Newsies’ Medda Larkin, a 19th Century Vaudeville actress who worked in New York and also provided haven to the “newsies” or news boys who had no place to stay. (1) Medda is a dynamic, high-spirited character and needed to bring a jolt…