 My Background
I have been making costumes for skaters since 1994. My business
has been online and national/international since 2000. I have studied
design at the graduate level, focusing on the designs in
antiquity especially in the Mediterranean and southwest Asia. I received
my Master of Arts degree in this area of study in March of 2006, but
my interests include all cultural genres including modern.
I specialize in designing and sewing costumes for special skating and dance events. Competition outfits
for figure skating are my specialty. I have also designed costumes for U.S.F.S.A. testing and practice.
For regional U.S.F.S.A. and I.S.I. competitors I have put together outfits
with matching jackets.
I create elegant outfits incorporating
only the finest fabrics: 100% silk chiffons, stretch velvets, and Austrian
crystal.
I will work from your conversation, photo, sketch, catalogue
clipping, or music to design and make a costume that is unique for your
program, your body and your pocketbook. This is my passion, affordable
services that will make your costume or athletic-wear stunning and appropriate.
Need a costume to go along with ethnic folk music? I research my designs
so that they accurately reflect historic or cultural themes. I have done
Bavarian festival, Irish dance, Russian, Spanish, Indian and Mandarin
costumes and welcome the challenge of costuming any other nationality
or dance style! |
