The Craft of Costume Design

Over street clothes, a woman wears a corset mock-up, a jacket with painted Celtic knots, gauntlets with metal panels and wires, a gold-and-silver bead necklace, a purple-and-gold mask, and a blue hat with a yellow lily.

A student models various costume elements completed for this course: a felt hat, a molded mask, a necklace made from found objects, a simple corset, an embellished thrift-store jacket, and armored gauntlets. (Photo by Leslie Held; costuming by an anonymous MIT student. Used with permission.)

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MIT Course Number

21M.715

As Taught In

Fall 2009

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This class provides an overview of some of the techniques used in creating costume pieces that are crafted rather than sewn. We will use a variety of materials and techniques to create specific costume pieces while at the same time exploring alternative applications possible for each material/technique.

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Leslie Held. 21M.715 The Craft of Costume Design. Fall 2009. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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