I’ve seen a color trend that has unexpectedly popped across fashion and home particularly for the fall/winter season. I first noticed teal when I was blown away by the costumes for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2016. Eddie Redmayne’s teal-colored nubby coat popped off the screen and away from the grubby, gray production values of period 1920’s New York. Academy Award-winning costumer designer Colleen Atwood is superb at developing fabric techniques so costumes

Have you missed the pockets that used to be included in women’s blazers and suit jackets? In the past, if there was a pocket indicated on the outside of a jacket, there was a real, functional pocket in the garment. Sometimes you had to release the tacking stitches to open it because the factory tacked it closed for shipping, but it was a real pocket. Alas, in the race to make cheaper garments today, manufacturers too-often put a faux pocket in the garment exterior, but fail

I used to put costumes together for a small theatre group. And my go-to was always my favorite thrift shops to find the perfect character pieces for little money (I generally paid for them out of my pocket because there was no budget). So, the other day I went to a big thrift chain on a search for a few items for an aspiring photographer with no budget for a shoot. I thought I’d just breeze in, find a few things and be out of there. I was wrong. What I remembered as a tre