Hot Topics!
Is there a topic you have been wishing would be covered in a session at the Annual Conference & Stage Expo? This is the place for you to request someone with different expertise than your own present a session on the topic you want to learn more about.
Do you want to propose a session but don't know what topics people would be interested in?
Here are the current HOT TOPICS:
- Computer rendering for beginners
- How do you go about getting published.
- Ventilating
- Organizing study tours to London
- Reasonable salaries in educational costume shops
- Tailoring for beginners
- Fabric modification
- Care for vintage clothing
- Different uses of Leather
- Trick costumes
- Jewelry for the stage
- Shoe modification
- Native American Costumes
- Prosthetics -Latex, Foam Latex, Silicone
- Before the “white” wedding gown
- Creating a source book for costumes, suppliers, and costume related supplies
- Felt work
- Working with fur
- Straw millinery work
- Do it your self sewing machine repair
- Bidding the cost to build a show. (Both from the professional and university costume shop perspective -- how much for the garment and how much is your time worth.)
- The business end of costuming
- Photographing costumes, 3d virtual reality (Looking for others to help, contact Otis Sweezey osweeze@siue.edu)
- Beginning millinery
- Metal working for body armor
- Big jewelry
- Building the costumes for Seussical
- Building Geisha wigs
- Building Equus horse heads
- Revitalizing Fedoras after over use
- Making cage bustles
- Making Foam mascot heads
Thomas John Bernard
Assistant Professor Costume Technology
Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne
O: 260-481-6557
probernardt@yahoo.com
