A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Period Style

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5219-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A Working Costume Designer’s Guide to Period Style equips costume designers and technicians with all the necessary information to make decisions about fit, shapes, garment choices, accessories, and other aspects of costume design to create a period impression on stage.

The first part of the book discusses approaches for designing costumes set in a particular era in the European/North American context, exploring themes such as accuracy, research, and the role of costumes in creating a sense of time and place. The second part is designed as a practical, user-friendly tool that can be easily accessed during a fitting, while designing, or when evaluating extant historic garments. It provides:

- Reference tables for each of the eras covered in the book.

- Full-color images and line drawings.

- Information on the representative textiles, colors, and surface patterns for the period.

- Details on how different areas of the wearer’s body and garments areas are defined, ensuring that a costume can be examined for accuracy point by point.

This is an essential guide for students of Costume Design courses and professional costume designers of any experience level. It will also be of interest to students of Costume History and Fashion History courses.

The book includes access to additional online resources, available at www.routledge.com/9780815352198. These include information on hairstyling, makeup, headdresses, footwear, accessories, and undergarments, research sources for each era, and a glossary.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

deJong, Jeanette

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theater: Technik, Bühnentechnik, Einrichtung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Using Costumes to Create a Theatrical World 2. Choosing a Period and Level of Accuracy 3. Conducting Research 4. Using Period Research for Costume Design 5. Ancient Greece – 2900-C30 BCE 6. Ancient Rome - C 700 BCE – 476 CE 7. Post-Roman Europe Through Romanesque Circa 476 – C1150 CE 8. Gothic C1150-1500 CE 9. Italian Renaissance C1325-C1600 10. Tudor/Elizabethan/Northern Renaissance - 1485-C1600 11. The 17th Century - 1600-1699 12. The Eighteenth Century to 1775: 1700 – 1775 13. Neo-Classicalism and Revolution - 1775-1794 14. Regency and Empire - 1795-1819 15. Early Victorian/Romantic Era- 1820-1849 16. Mid-Victorian/Crinoline - 1850 – 1869 17. Late Victorian/Bustle - 1870 – 1889 18. End of the Victorian Era - 1890 – 1899 19. Edwardian – 1900 -1909 20. 1910s and World War I 21. 1920 – 1929 22. The Depression and World War II - 1930-45 23. Post World War II – 1946 - 59 24. 1960 - 1969 25. 1970 – 1979 26. 1980 – 1989 27. The End of the Millenium 1990 – 1999 28. The New Millenium 2000 – 2009  29. 2010 - 2019

Über Autor(innen)

Jeanette deJong is Associate Professor of Costume Design, History, and Technology at the University of Oregon. A member of United Scenic Artists, she has designed costumes and taught costume design since 1984. She is also the author of A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Color (Routledge 2021) and A Working Costume Designer's Guide to Fit (Routledge 2023). Her professional design credits include shows at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Illinois Shakespeare Festival, amongst many other theatres. Her technical costume credits include shows at Glimmerglass Opera, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, and Parson-Meares Studio, New York.