Wishing us peace on earth, and all the joys of the season …

December 2022

and we’ll meet here again in 2023.
(John Lennon’s Imagine, courtesy Wikimedia.)

Costume Banks and Conjured Worlds

BY Eva Crocker

As we weave through the racks she tells me the history of specific pieces, like a donated Sherlock Holmes’ style cape and deerstalker hat that was worn during the Boer War. Each costume is a talisman for transformation and picking the right one can help summon a character, conjure a world.