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THE UAF COSTUME SHOP
The
Costume Shop is unusually large for an undergraduate-only theatre
program. While comparing notes with other costumers in the Northwest Drama Conference (AK,
WA, OR, & ID) I found it "tied" with Anchorage as the biggest college shop
space (21' x 53' in the main room alone) in the Conference region.
Like nearly every costume shop, it is in a basement with no windows and cement walls, but in Winter in Fairbanks this is a blessing. You never realize that it's cold and dark outside till you go to get your car. (Boy do you notice it then!)
One of the main shop disadvantages, a poor ventilation system, we turned to our advantage, by making an all non-toxic vapor working environment.
We have two full-size (4' x 8') padded cutting
tables, and a full and a 2/3's size crafts tables, plus a hot glue table.
Oh,
yes, and we once had a part-time costume shop cat, the
estimable Shoelace.
Costume Shop Equipment
The shop has a comfortable
amount of good, equipment, including 6 Wolf-type dress forms, 3 Bernina sewing machines,
an industrial overlock serger, a Consew industrial, an Airbrush and
compressor, and a genuine industrial soup cooker
dye vat.
We also have a new commercial
washer & drier, provided by a group of community donors.
(Ain't it a dream?) We also have two nearly new
electric-pump industrial steam irons, a newer Thompson portable industrial walking foot,
and a barely year old standing steamer wand.
We
also have a Pentium computer connected to the university T1 ethernet for the
shop.
Students working on their own
projects have access to our extensive swatch and scrap bin system, where any fabric
smaller than a foot square is available for swatches, and any fabric smaller than a yard
square is folded into color coded scraps for use in shows and projects.
In addition to the main room is:
The Men's & Women's Dressing Rooms
To see all of these Click Here.
Links to other Costume Shops On the Web
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