Costuming the Curve
Dressing Bodies of Size for the Stage, Screen, and Life
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 16 March 2026
- ISBN 9780367524968
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages132 pages
- Size 280x210 mm
- Weight 400 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 94 Illustrations, color; 90 Halftones, color; 4 Line drawings, color 696
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Short description:
Costuming the Curve is a groundbreaking and practical guide that redefines how designers approach body diversity in performance. This book addresses the needs of larger female-presenting bodies, which are often overlooked in traditional costume design and construction training.
MoreLong description:
Costuming the Curve: Dressing Bodies of Size for the Stage, Screen, and Life is a groundbreaking and practical guide that redefines how designers approach body diversity in performance.
This book addresses the needs of larger female-presenting bodies, which are often overlooked in traditional costume design and construction training. Drawing on over two decades of teaching and practice, this book provides practical tools, innovative techniques, inclusive body positive strategies, and compassionate insights for designing, sourcing, fitting, and altering costumes and clothing that honor, celebrate, and empower performers with larger female-presenting bodies. With an emphasis on respect, collaboration, and body-positive design, this book fills a long-overdue gap in theatre, fashion, and film costume education. More than a how-to guide, this book is a call to reimagine the costume shop as a place of equity, respect, and creative liberation for creating costumes that honor bodies of size on stage and screen.
With a focus on fit, function, and dignity, this book invites professionals, educators, and students to reimagine design through a lens of celebration—not limitation. Whether in the classroom or the costume shop, Costuming the Curve is an essential resource for designers ready to challenge outdated norms and reimagine what is possible when every body is seen, supported, and celebrated.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Size Shift 2. The Importance of Awareness and Inclusivity 3. Movers and Shakers in The Body Positivity Movement 4. The Importance of Comfort 5. Design Elements for Costumes and Clothing 6. Undergarments 7. Upper Body Garments 8. Lower Body Garments 9. Full Body Garments 10. Footwear 11. Hats, Headpieces, and Wigs 12. Jewelry and Belts 13. Basic Alterations for Common Fit Issues 14. Inclusive Resources
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