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Lorraine Pettit Portfolio

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Lorraine Pettit - Costume Shop Manager UAF (resume page here) has worked in both theatre costuming and industrial sewing for more years than she cares to count.  In her varied sewing career she has been costume shop manager at UAF for 6 years, College of Marin for 4 years, a pattern drafter and sample seamstress for Folkwear Patterns (when it was in San Rafael, CA) assistant manager for Alterations to Go in Larkspur, CA, and sample seamstress for Christie's Leather among many other jobs. Lorraine does, beadwork, custom sewing and pattern drafting and all the specialty skills you see pages for below: 

 

 

 

Costumes designed by Lorraine Pettit for Athena at FDA, 1993:

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Some Dance Costumes in Stretch Fabrics:

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Fabric painting on this outfit for Pish-Tush 

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This page last edited on 03/12/2005