Clothe Your Characters

After thirty odd years as a professional costume designer in theatre, I know how to research an historical period and how to draw. I have long been aware that costume histories were notoriously sparse on twentieth century clothing. For the periods they did cover, they'd show fully dressed figures with little information on undergarments and nothing about the process of putting clothes on. As a writer of fiction I realized they were short to non-existent on the verbal.

 Clothe Your Characters is my response to these conditions.

Who, me?

I discovered theatre when I was fifteen which satisfied all my hungers for making art, exploring other people's lives and sharing the worlds that existed in my head. I earned a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Kansas and spent the next several years designing costumes in and around Chicago.

Moving back to Oklahoma, I earned a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Oklahoma. For many years more I designed scenery as well as costumes from Oklahoma City to Houston to Alabama to Maine to New York. Along the way I taught stage makeup in six universities.

I now live in Spring, Texas (north edge of Houston) with two rescued cats and a husband that rescued me.

The tiger is just a friend. She lives in a refuge for rescued animals. Guess she sensed an affinity because she came to me from across her large pen, seemingly for the express purpose of rubbing my leg and licking my foot.

Pepper Hume