A Tailor Made It

costuming, tailoring and pattern making for the theatre with an emphasis on menswear

Friday, November 24, 2017

Fast and furious

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NTS progress update. Week two is complete and we have been very busy. We being myself, expert sewer Lisange and our part time student assi...
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Monday, November 20, 2017

Off to Montreal

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Off to Montreal. It has been a strange year in so many ways. I have let the blog languish due to so many things going on in life. I hav...
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Saturday, July 15, 2017

Cutting an "old fashioned" bathing suit

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Tucked in amongst the suits and trousers we are making, is a little project that was a lot of fun to do. We needed to make an old fashioned...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

Cutting cloth with one way design

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Well, first I need to say that I am just crawling out from under one of the most trying times at work. I shall not go into it here but suff...
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Sunday, March 26, 2017

fitting and pattern alterations part 2

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I thought I would follow up a little on the fitting and pattern alteration post where I was dealing with pattern alterations for scoliosis....
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

A draped shirt

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While I wait and wait for a fitting to find out if my pattern changes for scoliosis were successful, I thought I would browse back to last s...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

fitting and pattern alterations

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One of the more challenging aspects of my job is drafting patterns to fit a variety of body shapes and fitting them to the individual. Ove...
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Terri
I am a theatrical costume cutter/tailor at North America's largest repertory theatre. I've been working in the theatre since 1986, and have the privelege of working with many of the top-notch designers in Canada, the US and the UK. These include Desmond Heeley, Ann Curtis, Santo Loquasto, Patrick Clark, Christina Poddubiuk, John Pennoyer, Charlotte Dean, Susan Benson, Meredith Caron, Dany Lyne, Francois St.Aubin, Paul Tazewell, Jonathan Fensom, Debra Hanson among many others.
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