Teaching Costuming, creativity and sustainability
CSparrold, LLC
Yarmouth, Maine
(207)200-6878
csparrold@gmail.com
How often do you open your closet to find something you would LOVE to love and show off, only to be second-guessing your wardrobe because it’s just not… right?
Modern clothes are not designed with a person in mind - and that’s what you are. A whole, complete, authentic, and accepted person. One who deserves to celebrate the form they’re in.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could harness everything you know and love about yourself to NEVER second guess your garment choices?
Wouldn’t it be amazing to learn how to change the clothes to fit you?
What’s stopping you?
I want to help you learn how to harness the best parts of yourself to create something that is NOT standard issue - because YOU’RE not standard issue. You’re not a size, not a shape, and not a number. Fast fashion works super hard to convince you of that! Here’s what I can help you with:
Wrong size? Wrong shape? Cool! Let me show you how to fix that!
Perfect size? Perfect shape? But it feels like you’re wearing a plastic bag? That’s not okay at all! Let’s fix that!
Need a closet purge and not sure how to start or what to do with it? Let me teach you how to close the sustainability loop!
Want to learn about petticoats and /gasp/ corsets? I know a thing or two!
Do you need a costumer for a show? Cool! Can I bring a friend? Or three?
Subversive Embroidery Classes (Adulting is hard, and we ALL need a safe space.)
Consultations to educate consumers on sensible, sustainable, and slow fashion.
You never need to cave to marketing demands that you HAVE to have an item from [insert fast fashion company name here] because you don’t have time or money to stand in front of items in your closet and hope that garment you spent $100 on has changed. All you need is permission and a small bit of additional information.
You are always worth feeling amazing, looking the way YOU choose and embracing your own inner self.
Let me cheer you on!
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
Edith Head
Bio
With 10 years as a middle school Social Studies educator in Tucson, AZ, Cassie has been actively costuming for twelve years through various steampunk events and is committed to limiting fast-fashion and upcycling existing garments for her day-to-day wear. She has built costumes from the Colonial to the Edwardian periods, in addition to cartoon and videogame cosplays (Including Robecca Steam from Monster High and a Big Sister from Bioshock) and participated in and won costume contests and Iron Tailor challenges. She specializes in villain cosplays (“villains ALWAYS have the best costumes!”) and her favorite motto is:, “Failure is always an option - especially when costuming! Rework, rebuild and refine!”
Cassie has taught classes for summer camps, aged 12-16, worked one-on-one with adults and is committed to ending the sustainability failures of fast fashion and the garment industry. Some of her past project designs have included: resin, miniatures, jewelry making, hat construction, thermoplastics, centerpiece manufacture, styling, wigs, shoe modifications, molding/casting, prop-making, creative design, historically inspired battle simulations, costuming entire classes for specific time-periods, facilitated festivals and carnivals, and random (albeit peaceful) administrative office invasions on Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day.