Dance Costumes

September 10th, 2008

It is becoming a tradition to recycle, redo, or create from scratch, the costumes for my daughters’ solo dances. We all enjoy the process, and we save lots of money. We have also been able to get what we want, rather than just settling for something out of the costume catalog. Recorded here is the process we went through to get to each of our final costumes.

2010
Coppelia, solo wedding variation
Flames of Paris, solo variation

2009
La Fille Mal Gardee, Lise variation
Pas de Trois, solo variation from Swan Lake

2008
Woodland Glade Fairy, variation from Sleeping Beauty

Midwest Dance Theatre 2010

HELPFUL COSTUME RELATED LINKS:

Inspiration:
The Costume Lady’s photo gallery
Theatre Ballet Gallery
Tutu Beautiful
tutu.com
Tutus Divine

Instructions:
Oregon Ballet Theatre blog — The tutu making process

Embellishments:
Angeltrim
eBay — Christina’s Goodies n Things
Glitz & Glamour
Joggles
Lace Heaven
M&J Trimmimg
Sequin Appliques
tutu.com
Uniport Industries

Patterns:
Ballet Books
Stretch Dance
McCall’s 7990 – very nice ABT pattern from the 1980′s – run a google and/or ebay search for it — good luck!
Tutu.com

Costume Catalogs:
The general public can not order from these catalogs – you have to go through your dance teacher/school.
Algy Performs
Art Stone
A Wish Come True
BalletCostume.com
Body Wrappers
Costume Gallery
Curtain Call
Deventers Dancewear
Dansco/Fina
Ferreira
Georgie Girl Costumes
Kelle Commpany
Leo’s Dancewear
Libert’s
Marcea
Star Styled
Revolution Dancewear
Weissman
Wolff Fording & Company