The Costumer's Manifesto is written by Tara Maginnis, and proudly hosted by William Baker.

THE MANIFESTO IS MUTATING!  IT IS TURNING INTO A WIKI THAT CAN BECOME THE HIVE MIND OF ALL COSTUMERS, FINALLY LIVING UP TO IT'S SLOGAN: "COSTUMERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!" YOU CAN HELP IN THIS PROCESS BY MOVING PAGES TO THE NEW SITE AT THECOSTUMERSMANIFESTO.COM, HELPING TO EDIT THE PAGES THAT ARE THERE ALREADY, AND ADDING YOUR OWN ORIGINAL INPUT.

 

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These pages were originally designed for an online version of a Costume Design and Construction Class at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.  Since I have left UAF and this class is no longer offered, I am leaving these class materials up online for other teachers to use, link to, or print out for their own classes. 

THIS IS NOT AN ACTIVE UAF COURSE-USE ONLY FOR INSPIRATION

 Costume Design & Construction I  Projects

The format of this course allows you to choose assignments from a series of categories (see below) to develop skills in the two main  areas of this class: Costume Design and Costume Construction.  Because many online learners come to my classes with extensive experience in some areas, and gaps in other areas, this smorgasbord is designed so that a student may skip over areas that he/she already knows about, and can concentrate on developing new skills. How this works is that every assignment is "worth" a certain number of "credits" in either Design or Construction or both, depending on the nature of the assignment and it's difficulty.  As a student you are required to finish assignments adding up to 50 "credits" in each of the two subject categories, with a total of 100 credits overall.  Within those guidelines the work is judged on quality to determine your final semester grade.  With that as your basic guide you can choose the assignments that will best fill your learning needs, and best patch up those gaps.  The amounts of credits available with each project is listed next to the project. Assignment credits are shown with the following codes:

  • 5D = 5 Design Credits
  • 8C = 8 Construction Credits
  • 2D+8C = 2 Design and 8 Construction Credits
 

 

Some UNDER CONSTRUCTION projects I'm still working on making pages for, you can see photos on these partially made pages:

Some projects I hope to add in the future for the Costume Design and Construction II class

  • Wings
    • Fairy Wings
    • "Angel" Wings
    • Bat Wings
  • Body Modification
    • Big Breasts
    • Pregnancy and Fat Pads
    • Humps
    • Corsets
    • Period Body Padding
  • Pattern Drafting
    • Flat Pattern Exercises
    • Drafting  "Biblical" and Folk Dress that fits

    • Fitting a Basic Block Pattern

    • Quick Pattern Method 
    • Home Made Dress Forms (see Costume Studio Equipment, below)
    • Duct Tape Patterns
  • Sewing
    • Vinyl
    • Leather
  • Paperwork
    • Build Charts
    • Costume Change Charts
    • Check in Forms
    • Cost Sheets
  • Rendering
    • Ruffles & Pleats
    • Fur and Feathers
    • Basic Proportion
    • Copy Drawing
    • Hands
    • Feet 
    • Faces
    • Character
    • Dancing Man
  • Costume Studio Equipment
    • Goodie Bag (Also a sewing Project)
    • Basic Cutting Table
    • Garment Bags
 

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