Costume Design

by Barbara Anderson, Cletus R. Anderson

The second edition of COSTUME DESIGN provides a basic introduction to costume design and takes students through the entire process of costume making, beginning with the idea for a costume to the final fit. The text is thoroughly illustrated, providing guidelines for the student for creating the figure and the costume design, examples of many styles of costume presentation, a guide to historical costume shapes, and scale drawings of the basic historical patterns with photos of them made up in muslin. Many theatre departments require all theatre majors take a course in costume design.

Genres: Theatre, Nonfiction

400 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1983

Reviews

[Natalie Leavenworth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a great book for all the basics of designing costumes. I’ve used it for years in all my costume design classes as the textbook. I’ve also used it for reference and patterns. It’s well written and beautiful.

[Phair · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent text on theatrical costume design. I particularly like the section providing a sketch overview of each historic period showing the important points of that era's dress- makes a nice quick refresher. Contains a selection of basic adaptable pattern shapes including some specifics such as various man's coat styles, sleeve shapes.