The Costume Researcher

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
Coco Chanel

I created this blog with the intention of collecting and sharing images gathered in the practice of researching costumes for the creative process. I will also include images collected for different theater productions and research projects of my own.

Costume Research 1880’s fashion
I'm currently working on my pictorial research for “The Vibrator play” by Sarah Ruhl, set in 1880's New York

Photo reblogged from I would argue

historicaldetailsandstuff:

This bronze hoplite’s helmet of the Corinthian type is inscribed with the name Dendas. perhaps the person who dedicated it in a sanctuary around the year 500 BC. Such helmets afforded good protection to the wearer but they severely restricted vision and hearing, causing the hoplites’ reliance on the coherence of their formation.
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  For some reason, my professor completely overlooked the fact that Corinth existed when we went over Ancient Greece. I...
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  Hoplite helmet
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