Introduction / Sarah McCarroll -- Plus que reine: the Napoleonic revival in Belle Epoque theatre and fashion / Michele Majer -- Creating a realistic rendering pedagogy: the fashion illustration problem / Caitlin Quinn -- Where'd I put my character?: the costume character body and essential costuming for the ensemble actor / Aly Renee Amidei -- Embracing the chaos: creating costumes for devised work / Kyla Kazuschyk -- Dressing the image: costumes in printed theatrical advertising / David S. Thompson -- Costuming the audience: gentility, consumption, and the lady's theatre hat in Gilded Age America / Leah Lowe -- The RuPaul effect: the exploration of the costuming rituals of drag culture in social media and the theatrical performativity of the male body in the ambit of the everyday / Jorge Sandoval -- A brand new day on Broadway: the genius of Geoffrey Holder's artistry and his intentional evocation of the African diaspora / Gregory S. Carr -- On the [historical] sublime : J.R. Planché's King John and the romantic ideal of the past / Andrew Gibb.