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{The Costume Design of Edith Head, Part One}

November 12, 2019 by kelerr

I recently acquired a first edition copy of The Dress Doctor, Edith Head’s autobiography (co-written by Jane Kesner Ardmore). It’s a fascinating little book full of details about Head’s working for Paramount Pictures, and she is not shy about sharing various details about the stars she worked with. I must admit that for someone as interested in costume design as I am, the amount of movies I have seen with costumes designed by Edith Head is extremely small. As I […]

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{A Homemade Halloween: The Price is Right}

November 8, 2019 by kelerr

People believe that I am super into Halloween, when in reality I am just super into costumes. Thus, whenever my work Halloween costume competition comes around, I like to go all out. This year I used an idea I’ve had brewing for a couple of years now, but for whatever reason changed at the last minute. However, it was finally time. I wanted my Most Creative Costume title back, so I knew I had to bring out the big guns. […]

Categories: Costumes, Creating, Homemade Halloween, Me Made, TV Shows

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{Out and About: The Book of Mormon}

October 18, 2019 by kelerr

This one is going to be short and sweet. As per usual, I am in a whirlwind of busy, crazy exhausted trying to get the musical together as well as an entertaining Halloween costume, and then there’s the added bonus of my sister’s new baby being due any minute now and I found myself with no Friday post for this week. So I put together a little something about my latest Broadway excursion. Last weekend, I have the chance to […]

Categories: Out and About, Theater, Watching

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{Out and About: Into the Woods}

July 12, 2019 by kelerr

My mom and I go see almost every production of Into the Woods that we can find locally. She took me to see it on Broadway for my seventh birthday, and it instilled in me my lifelong love and appreciation of live theater. So over the years its kind of become a thing, even though there is no regularity whatsoever to when we see it, nor do we actively seek out productions of it; we simply see the ones that […]

Categories: Costumes, Out and About, Theater

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{Costume Design: The Harry Potter Series}

May 21, 2019 by kelerr

I don’t think the costumes of the Harry Potter series get a lot of credit, but when you really break it down, there’s a lot to think about. Along with the rest of the design team, the costume designer needs to create a unique look for an equally unique world and combine that with the modern-day world as well. The characters have their robes, their school uniforms and their “real” clothes that they wear when interacting with Muggles. On top […]

Categories: Costumes, Movies, Travel Tales, Traveling

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{The Little Mermaid Costumes, Part Two}

April 19, 2019 by kelerr

It’s time for the second installment of taking a look at the costumes for The Little Mermaid. Last week I outlined some of the major players. This week we’re going to look at some of the other characters, as well as Ariel’s human dresses. Ariel’s Human Dresses All of Ariel’s human costumes were designed to call back to her ocean life. Her main human dress had a pattern on it that reminded me of something that might grow underwater. I […]

Categories: Costumes, Creating, Me Made, Sewing, Theater

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{The Little Mermaid Costumes, Part One}

April 12, 2019 by kelerr

This year’s musical feels like whirlwind experience right now, though if you had asked me about it three months ago, I might’ve told you it was going really well, and then gone off and stress cried. But now that we’re a few weeks away from our run, I feel like it all went by in a blur, and I miss it dearly. You don’t truly know until you’re in the trenches of a musical yourself, but you become a family […]

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{Out and About: Beetlejuice on Broadway}

April 9, 2019 by kelerr

Though my every Friday night run of shows ended a while ago, I still find every excuse I can to get to the theater. Saturday afternoon I attended a matinee of Beetlejuice: The Musical as part of a belated birthday outing from my mom. Overall, Beetlejuice is fun. I didn’t realize going in just how popular the movie actually was amongst its fans. I like it, I used to watch it a lot when I was younger, but I learned […]

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{On Costume Design}

March 29, 2019 by kelerr

This past Wednesday was World Theater Day. I actually didn’t know that until the actual day, but I happened to be reflecting on instagram about costume design. I had posted a picture from The Little Mermaid and wrote some brief thoughts on the subject. I was in kind of a mood so I started playing with some fabric samples for next year’s show, laying them out and looking at them together and I just felt so happy and out of […]

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{The Costume Design of Edith Head, Part One}

{A Homemade Halloween: The Price is Right}

{Out and About: The Book of Mormon}

{Out and About: Into the Woods}

{Costume Design: The Harry Potter Series}

{The Little Mermaid Costumes, Part Two}

{The Little Mermaid Costumes, Part One}

{Out and About: Beetlejuice on Broadway}

{On Costume Design}