Anyone who has dealt with historical costume production knows just how difficult it is to make a pattern that follows historical cutting techniques, and how it is becoming increasingly difficult to find someone who can cut well. However, they also know that a mistaken cut can cause numerous problems in the quality of the outcome and production schedules.  

With StageWear, I have designed a service that provides just what I would have wanted when I was managing costume production: the possibility to have theatrical costume patterns cut to exactly fit an individual’s measurements in a very, very short time. StageWear guarantees delivery in three working days, and in special cases I have been able to provide a custom-tailored pattern in just one hour.

The patterns provided by the StageWear service (you can navigate t

Every pattern is based on my personal experience as a costume designer and maker for over twenty-five years. However, this experience is uniquely enhanced by a mastery of a complex software that generates pattern Macros. Each Macro is defined following the very strict rules of the traditional tailoring schools, so that every line or curve is the result of a mathematical calculation based on one or more body measurements. So a single Macro can generate an infinite number of unique patterns, each especially proportioned for a given individual.  

When you send 

your measurements for a specific model (for example, the “1906 Women” men's frockcoat), I input them in the corresponding Macro file and generate the personalized pattern. Even still, I control each pattern individually so that nothing is entrusted entirely to the computer: if an armhole doesn’t have a harmonic form I will adjust it, just like a tailor of the traditional school would.

At this point the pattern is transformed into a PDF file (printable on one or more European A0 size sheets or any other format requested) which is sent as an email attachment. You thus receive your pattern in real time, anywhere in the world. All you need to do is take the file to a neighbourhood printing service to print out the pattern at your convenience.

Off to work then...