Measure My Costume
Costume planning for school and community theater: every role, every cast member, every yard of fabric in one place.
The need
A volunteer costumer works without commercial patterns and redoes the fabric math by hand for every show, with cast measurements scattered across paper forms and a storage room nobody has inventoried.
What was hard
- 1
Measurement form import
Photograph or paste a filled measurement sheet and the model reads it into the performer's record.
- 2
Cast-list import
A pasted cast list is parsed, and roles are matched against a curated play catalog that also suggests roles for a chosen show.
- 3
Fabric yardage estimates
A pure skirt formula with four constructions and quarter-yard rounding handles skirts, and AI estimates cover everything else.
- 4
Sourcing per piece
Each costume piece is marked make, on hand, shared or buy.
- 5
House inventory
Inventory items carry photos and storage locations so the storage room can be searched.
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Casts and collaborators
A production can hold multiple casts and understudies, and collaborators are added through invite emails.