A Message from Your President
First, thank you to everyone who attended GBACG’s first Virtual Open House in January and our first Virtual Costume Academy last weekend. While going virtual for events has quite a learning curve, we have been grateful for all the feedback, and seeing our members’ lovely faces. Getting to see everyone’s Quarantine Crafts and playing trivia together at the Open House […]
Meet Your Board: Natalie Wiener, Secretary
Why costuming? What brought you here? I was one of those kids who LOVED to play dress-up, and I guess I just never grew out of that phase. There is something transformative and empowering about putting on an outfit that makes you feel fabulous, whether it’s a costume for a special event, or just your everyday clothing. What’s your costuming […]
Meet Your Board: A.J. Wu, Webmaster
Why costuming? What brought you here? I started out making clothes. One Halloween, I decided to make a costume and I got super duper obsessive over the details because that kind of thing is fun for me. I had so much fun with it that I went online to find other people who enjoyed costuming, and discovered cosplay. You mean […]
Remembering Jwlhyfer Karnstien de Winter
“Dressing well is always possible; and what other people think is of no relevance if what you are wearing suits you.” Jwlhyfer Karnstien de Winter Jwlhyfer majored in Performance Art at the San Francisco Art Institute. They wrote, directed and performed in Theosomorphia, Danse Vampyresque, Wolfbone, Winter’s Dream of White Roses, and sang in Dweller at the Gates of Silent Memory among other pieces. They had […]
Meet Your Board: Natasha Borders, Events Coordinator
Why costuming? What brought you here? I’ve begun sewing when I joined the SCA a long time ago while in business school in Central New York, needing to make outfits for me and my husband, and it has become a life-long hobby. I’ve always enjoyed dressing up, and the historical dress is just really cool! I’ve mostly made Rennaisance and […]
Former Board Member: Sara McKee
Why costuming? What brought you here? Costuming brought together my love and knowledge of portrait miniatures and fashion history combined with the need to have a creative outlet. I also just really like to dress up. Do you do anything else crafty or artistic? I try to take ballet class when time allows. What was the first costume you made? […]
Meet your Board: Jillian Eittreim, Costume Academy Coordinator
Why costuming? What brought you here? Art is probably the main reason I am into costuming now, starting with the illustrations in the fairy tale picture books I read as a child, and then later with the opulent portraits of Renaissance and 19th century. Some memorable picture books from my childhood were Fritz and the Beautiful Horses by Jan Brett […]
Worn to Dance: A 1920s Fashion and Beading Exhibit at Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles
By Kij Greenwood Buckle up your dancing shoes and throw away your cares, because the Twenties are coming back around! Almost one hundred years ago, the Jazz Age saw dramatic social change in America. A new generation of women was, for the first time ever, voting, driving, spending their own money, smoking and drinking in public, bobbing their long hair, […]
Call Me Demelza Poldark
By Jane Xavier Dougherty The second I saw Robin Ellis as Ross Poldark galloping along the dramatic Cornish coastline, back in 1975, I admit to being entranced by Poldark. Set in the late 18th to early 19th centuries, Winston Graham’s novels of Cornwall came to life on the TV screen with all the drama and sweeping romance my teenage brain […]
Jellyfish gown at the Dragon Con Friday Night Costume Contest
By Sahrye Cohen Kym Barrett, the costume designer for the movie “Aquaman,” was inspired by the weird and wonderful marine animals of the ocean world while designing the Atlantean clothes and armor. When I saw the glowing jellyfish dress that Mera wears to the Arena Duel, I knew I wanted to bring the dress to life. The light-up jellyfish and […]