Meet Your Board: Sam Moreno, Event Co-Coordinator
Why costuming? What brought you here? I love creating and making stuff with my own hands. I also love bringing my favorite characters to life and cosplay/costuming is a great way to do that! I joined the GBACG to make friends since I’m new to the Bay Area and be a part of the wonderful costume community! What’s your costuming […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Meet Your Board: Chang Meng-Freedman, Workshop Coordinator
Why costuming? What brought you here? I first became interested in costuming through high school art class when I studied the artworks of Charles Dana Gibson and Harrison Fisher. I was drawn to the clothing depicted in these illustrations and wanted to create my own. What’s your costuming focus? I make mostly historical costumes. I especially love niche historical fashion […]
Meet Your Board: Lauren Moyer, President
Why costuming? What brought you here? I have been obsessed with historical costumes since I was little and had American Girl dolls and Tom Tierney paper dolls. I would draw them and make stories around the characters. That’s what got me interested in costuming. My mother also studied sewing and I’ve been sewing since I can remember. I didn’t know […]
Meet Your Board: Kathe Gust, Membership Secretary
Why costuming? What brought you here? I started seriously costuming in college for the SCA because my sweetie was pretty deeply involved in it. Part of my undergraduate degree was theater and I did costume design and construction instead of on-stage work. Then we moved and I stopped. Lord of the Rings got me back into it because Phil looked […]
