Here are some pictures of past costumes I've made. Each is a custom
order and I won't duplicate them unless given permission by their owners.
The only exception to that is the blue jean tutu.
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Aurora bodice details. Organdy roses, bits of gold lace, rhinestones.
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Close up.
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Aurora, made for a dear friend of mine.
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Paquita
This was remade out of an Odette tutu. Adding the gold lace overskirt and bodice appliques. |
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Another Aurora
This fabric was so beautiful, it needed very little extra. We did add little sleeves later. |
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Pink and silver brocade bodice for Ballet Nouveau Colorado Sugarplum. Lace has beads and rhinestones worked into pattern.
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Ballet Nouveau Colorado Sugarplum
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Handcrafted headpiece using matching jewels for Ballet Nouveau Colorado.
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Cavalier for Ballet Nouveau Colorado, using a slightly darker brocade than the Sugarplum costume.
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Skate dress. Fuchsia velvet with matching stretch lace. Design outlined in rhinestones.
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Skate dress. Fuchsia velvet with white mesh lower sleeves and underskirt.
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Bronze Idol, La Bayadere
Metallic lycra, made so he could do a quick change into tights and tunic. |
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Columbine, Imagine Ballet Theatre
Pink and white stretch lycra. Very sweet. |
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Boy's costume
Made with large seams, because we know boys grow overnight. |
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Another Spanish styled tutu.
Beautiful embossed velvet. |
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Hand painted ice dance dress. Nude mesh cutouts and silk chiffon skirts.
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Boy's ice dance costume shirt. Hand painted.
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Paquita. Burgundy silk bodice with pin-tucked gold lame' and gold lace insets. Hand beaded. Custom dyed tulle to match. Handcrafted heapiece.
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Blue Jean tutu. Takes two identical pairs of jeans. Zipper is disabled and hook and eye closure added in back.
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Blue jean tutu, worn over a leotard.
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Ruffled and hooped doll dress. Customer did stenciling on layers before they were gathered.
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Lilac Fairy. Embossed lavendar taffeta bodice, embellished with glitter, lace applique', and beadwork.
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Custom designed Irish dancing solo dress. Wolf is made from 4 different sequinned fabrics, with black and grey crinkled silk.Dress of silk dupioni.
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Matching cape for Irish "wolf" dress.
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Peasant style dress.
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Spanish male for Ballet Nouveau Colorado Nutcracker.
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Detail of decorative gold lace, gold cording, red satin binding, and rhinestone work.
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Pretty gold lace over a simple white tutu.
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Suzanne Thomas-Hughes in an Odette costume.
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Another Odette. Organdy backing for feathers, small sequin motifs, and rhinestones.
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Another Odette in the making. Wings made of silvery lace and silver cording.
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Very full white romantic length tutus. Wide, covered elastic waist, worn over a leotard.
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Two Spanish tutus. Red tulle top layers over black underlayers.
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Spanish tutu with black underlayers, red top layers, gold cording and gold glitter painted into embossed velvet.
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Bodice detail of Spanish tutu. Embossed red velvet with gold glitter paint to highlight embossing pattern at edges of bodice and skirt.
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Close up of Snow Queen beaded bodice.
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Snow Queen. Hand beaded with bugle beads on bodice and skirt.
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Pleated tutu, no hoop, with glittery tulle overskirt and white lace motifs.
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Lace motifs embellished with rhinestones over baby blue tutu.
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Snow King and Queen for Brandywine Ballet.
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Brandywine Ballet snow king detail. Custom dyed stretch brushed twill.
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Brandywine Ballet snow corps. 3 colors in skirts, one custom dyed.
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Contemporary ballet. Maroon lycra with maroon velvet "boning". Chiffon skirts.
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Low back dance dress. Small roses dotted along skirt line.
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Snow corps tutus for St. Lucie Ballet.
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odice detail of Snow corps. Blue bodice piece is created separately and can be removed, to use tutus for Giselle or other "white ballets".
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Green silk bodice with three different greens in romantic length skirt. Imagine Ballet Theatre will decorate with ivy for their Secret Garden ballet.
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Tutu made for Clea Bella and similar sized dolls. Pattern is available for sale.
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Me, The Costume Lady
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and part of my costume shop.
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