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Couture Costume
Need historical garments from the 1500, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, or 1900s? Need a
petticoat, underware, hoop or crinoline for a party or art event? Couture
Costume & Corsets makes custom corset, dresses, wedding dress, ball gowns,
Halloween costumes and clothes. I offer professional dress making services for
Theater, Ballroom Dancing, weddings, period reenactment, SCA, Renaissance
Pleasure Fair, Tango dancers, and Swing dance. Here you will find unique designs
from every era: Medieval, Gothic, Edwardian, Victorian, Art Deco, Art Nuevo, Neo
Classical, Baroque, and more. I have made costumes for many Theatre, ballet and
San Francisco Opera and acted as consultant to a local museum. I, Barbara Ebel
work sewing and tailoring all over the Bay Area, California. I also offer
services in surface design, dyeing, millinary, conservation, restoration,
alterations, patterns, pattern making for men's, women's, children's, kid's and
infant's. How about snood, tricorn hat, top hat, or bonnet to go with a tailored
outfit. Millinery, doll making, and tatting. All are haute couture. I will
design and make a period or modern garment from any century: 16th, 17th, 18th,
19th, and 20th.
Couture Costume has been located in San Francisco since 1994 although I have
moved my studio within the city several times. It has been my goal to produce
costumes, patterns and the like to the highest of standards whenever time and
money permit. My strongest area is
Women's Historical Costumes
but with my sewing, patterning and dying skills I have made custom draperies,
children's clothing, athletic wear,
men's tailored garments, samples for designers, patterns for commercial use,
Halloween costumes,
Renaissance costumes,
Victorian wedding dresses,
Theater costumes, Ballet costumes,
Gothic gowns
and other things that would make this list too long.
In 1996 I graduated from San Francisco State University with honors and a degree
in Technical Theater with an emphasis on Costume. During my academic education I
took a variety of classes such as Jewelery Making, Surface Design for Textiles,
Figure Drawing, Fashion Business and Textile Sciences. I took every class that I
felt would make me a better rounded artisan regardless of the requirements for
my major and minor. I choose not to complete my minor in Fashion because I had
already begun working with the San Francisco Opera and De Young Museum and felt
it was more valuable for me to move forward with my career at that time.
This site is an online showcase of my works current and past for both
individuals and professional companies. It includes both work from my private
life as an artist and commercial works. I still have many more items to add to
the database; I am committed to putting up one new page each day until it is
done, hopefully some time in October 2004. The section dedicated to the San
Francisco Opera where I have spent the last 7 years of my costume career will be
completed sometime in 2005 since there is much extra work to be done with
releases from artist, designers and the company.
Most of all I want to thank my wonderful husband for putting this site together.
I may have made the clothes but this website is a work of art on his part. I
also want to thank my son, extended family, friends and people in the dance,
theater and costume communities for their support and inspiration.
I hope that this portfolio of my work will give anyone who is interested in
hiring me a sense of confidence that they will be getting my very best no matter
what the project.
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