WTF Hats, part three: Tricorne and Cloche

Here's the third in the series of posts on my stint as a long-distance milliner for the Williamstown Theatre Festival's currently-running production of The Torch-Bearers. (Part one and part two at these links.)

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And, thus ends the chapter of my summer entitled "WTF Millinery." The play is now open up in Williamstown and apparently the reviewers either love it or hate it, though i suppose whether it's good or not has no bearing on the fact that the hats are indisputably STUNNING. Ha!

But on a serious note, there's a lot of great stuff on the horizon both near and far, for future post topics. On Wednesday, i head out for the 2009 USITT Costume Commission's Summer Symposium, hosted this year by the excellent folks at Ohio U. The topic of focus is creature costumes and full-head/bighead/walkaround style masks, and i will be hopefully posting from the conference each night.

The topic for the fall crafts seminar is Decorative Arts, and we've got a whole new class of incoming grads whose work i'm looking forward to showcasing--lots of parasols and gloves and footwear and that sort of cool stuff, plus PlayMakers shows on the docket like Opus and, of course, the looming nicknickleby...