Select, fit, and take care of costumes for cast members, and aid entertainers.

• Costumer
• Wardrobe Supervisor

• Arrange costumes in order of use to facilitate quick-change procedures for performances.
• Assign lockers to employees, and maintain locker rooms, dressing rooms, wig rooms, and costume storage and laundry areas.
• Care for non-clothing items such as flags, table skirts, and draperies.
• Check the appearance of costumes on-stage and under lights in order to determine whether desired effects are being achieved.
• Clean and press costumes before and after performances, and perform any minor repairs.
• Collaborate with production designers, costume designers, and other production staff in order to discuss and execute costume design details.
• Create worksheets for dressing lists, show notes, and costume checks.
• Design and construct costumes or send them to tailors for construction, major repairs, or alterations.
• Direct the work of wardrobe crews during dress rehearsals and performances.
• Distribute costumes and related equipment, and keep records of item status.
• Examine costume fit on cast members, and sketch or write notes for alterations.
• Inventory stock in order to determine types and conditions of available costuming.
• Monitor, maintain, and secure inventories of costumes, wigs, and makeup, providing keys or access to assigned directors, costume designers, and wardrobe mistresses/masters.
• Participate in the hiring, training, scheduling, and supervision of alteration workers.
• Provide assistance to cast members in wearing costumes, or assign cast dressers to assist specific cast members with costume changes.
• Provide managers with budget recommendations, and take responsibility for budgetary line items related to costumes, storage, and makeup needs.
• Purchase, rent, or requisition costumes and other wardrobe necessities.
• Recommend vendors and monitor their work.
• Return borrowed or rented items when productions are complete and return other items to storage.
• Review scripts or other production information in order to determine a story's locale and period, as well as the number of characters and required costumes.
• Study books, pictures, and examples of period clothing in order to determine styles worn during specific periods in history.

• alter and fit garments
• assess script quality
• assign work to staff or employees
• cut or trim fabric or leather
• design tailored garments
• determine locale or period of story
• determine styles worn during historical period
• direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
• estimate materials or labor requirements
• examine garment fit on customer or cast member
• fabricate tailored garments
• inventory stock to ensure adequate supplies
• measure customer for size
• measure, weigh, or count products or materials
• operate laundering or dry cleaning equipment
• operate sewing machine
• order or purchase supplies, materials, or equipment
• press garment or fabric
• purchase or rent costumes or accessories
• recognize characteristics of cloth or fabric
• repair tears or defects in fabrics, garments, or leather products
• retrieve or place goods from/into storage
• review script to determine costumes required
• sew by hand
• study examples of period clothing
• use garment construction techniques
• use hand or power tools
• use portable electric fabric cutter