TEAR AWAY COSTUME MECHANICS

Do you want to remove clothing in a way that looks like magic, and impresses your audience? Do you fumble getting your shorts or panties over your ankles? Learn everything you need to know to take your clothing from normal regular garment - to sturdy, repeatable, and effective tear away clothing.

Drag artist and Costume Designer SHERMAN will run you through the mechanics of effective tear away clothing, complete with demonstrations of the fixtures and notions needed for specific reveals. The class will be 2 classes long, and you will leave the class series with a functional tear away garment that you made yourself!

• Students will learn what makes an effective tear away garment
• Learn the mechanics of tear away garments
• Learn the different tools available to achieve the tear away effect
• Implement seam ripping, sewing, and engineering skills to modify an existing garment into a tear away garment suitable for stage.

Sewing experience is nice, but not required. Students should bring at least one garment that you would like to turn into a tear away costume. Teenage students that are vetted members of the drag or A2 community should contact shermanburlesque@gmail.com if interested in taking this class!

Students 18 years or older, considering that tear away garment can be perceived as intrinsically erotic or sexual.

• Experinced instruction
• Materials sourced from the Fiber Arts Shop lead and the Instrcutor
• Access to A2's Fiber Arts Shop and tools for the duration of the session.

this class would be best to be 18 plus, considering that tear away pants and underpants can be perceived as intrinsically erotic or sexual. I'm willing to accept teenage students that are vetted members of the drag or AA community.

sewing experience is nice, but not required. students will attempt to sew in this class, and we will have glue workarounds for the truly sewing challenged.

SHERMAN is a queer performance artist, producer, costumer, and is a Gallery docent at Artisans Asylum. They have been working on costumes for 20 years, and has been especially interested in the mechanisms of tear away costumes. They will guide you through techniques that are suitable for novice sewists, as well as more sophisticated tailoring techniques that create the most sturdy and seamless garment possible. They have performed in the burlesque, indie wrestling, and drag scenes in Boston. They have created many tear away garments for themselves and other people, for a variety of unique applications. As a left handed, ADHD, disabled person, they bring a personalized teaching style that considers different learning styles, and project goals.