Draping Period Costumes provides you with the skill set you need to break away from two-dimensional patterns to drape three dimensional costumes. The basics of draping are explained in precise detail, followed by step-by-step draping projects from multiple historical periods.

Sharon Sobel is Professor of Theatre and Costume Designer at University of Nebraska at Omaha. A graduate of SUNY Albany (BA) and Carnegie-Mellon University (MFA) Sharon began her teaching career over 20 years ago at SUNY Geneseo and University of Connecticut. She has designed costumes for over 100 productions at her home institutions as well as at The Bermuda Festival, The Juilliard School, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Long Island Stage, New York International Fringe Festival, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Asolo Center for Performing Arts, Madison Repertory Theatre, Nebraska Repertory Theatre and Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. She has also designed costumes for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College. Sharon is a member of United Scenic Artists of America - Local 829.

As assistant designer and/or draper she has worked at Playwrights Horizons, The Alley Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Great American Children's Theatre, Opera Omaha, Sarasota Opera, Yale Repertory Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Professor Sobel has designed and draped costumes for a broad range of historical periods, including Ancient Greek, Early Gothic, Italian Renaissance, Elizabethan, Cavalier, Petticoat Breeches, Georgian, Empire/Regency, mid- to late- Victorian, Edwardian, and all decades of the 20th Century. She has taught costume design, history, patterning and draping to college students for the past 20 years, both within a structured classroom environment and in a theatre production setting. She also teaches workshops across the U.S. for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) and has served as KCACTF Region 5 Chair for Design and Technologies. In January 2011 she was awarded a Kennedy Center Medallion for her work with KCACTF.

Introduction Overview and objectives
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Early, Unstructured Garments
Chapter 3 Cut and shaped to fit
Chapter 4 The Height of Artificial Silhouette
Chapter 5 The Men return to softness.
Chapter 6 .while the women remain tightly laced
Chapter 7 The introduction of tailoring to the man's costume
Chapter 8 Variety of fit in the 18th century woman's costume
Chapter 9 Neoclassical elegance
Chapter 10 Revolutionary menswear
Chapter 11 Romantic womenswear
Chapter 12 The Victorian gentleman
Chapter 13 The Victorian lady
Chapter 14 Skirts
Glossary
Bibilography