My Background
I have been making costumes for skaters since 1994. My business
has been online and national/international for 4 years. 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 costumes for special events. Competition-wear
for figure skating is my specialty. I feature elegant outfits incorporating
only the finest fabrics: 100% silk chiffons, stretch velvets, and Austrian
crystal. 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. Skaters, singers, dancers, bikers, swimmers and
female hockey players use my services.
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! There is no charge for an estimate of what it would take
to make YOUR next costume. So by all means, contact me to consult on your
ideas. When necessary I will do sketches and mockups to get you what you
want. I will accommodate small teams.
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