How do these other theater people know about the Krannert costume shop?
We have a strong reputation in the field developed solely by word of mouth from our students and other costumers. We have a costume designer who is very talented and has been here for more than 20 years. We also have two professional cutters and drapers and three professional stitchers, which gives us an extremely good quality of costume very well designed, very well constructed. How much do you charge to rent different costumes? In the field, we are not expensive at all. Some people from Comedy Central in New York were looking for knee-high boots, and they could not find what they wanted there. So they called us, and I sent them all the boots they needed. It was $25 to rent each pair for six weeks while in New York it was $150. The period dresses are the most valuable because they require a lot of fabric and are very elaborate constructions. Maybe it will be only be $30 to rent, but the value of the dress may be $1,500, and that s what people will have to pay if they damage it. How ma
