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  2. Spirit gum - Wikipedia

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    Spirit gum is an adhesive, made mostly of SD Alcohol 35-A (the solvent, or "spirit") and resin (the adhesive, or "gum") originally consisting of mastix, used primarily for affixing costume prosthetics such as wigs, merkins, or false facial hair. It has been manufactured since at least the 1870s, and has long been a standard tool in theatrical ...

  3. Costume jewelry - Wikipedia

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    The retro period primarily included American-made jewelry, which had a distinctly American look. With the war in Europe, many European jewelry firms were forced to shut down. Many European designers emigrated to the U.S. since the economy was recovering. According to Schiffer, some of the characteristics of costume jewelry in the Retro period ...

  4. Ben Cooper, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Ben Cooper, Inc. was a privately held American corporation founded in 1937 which primarily manufactured Halloween costumes from the late 1930s to the late 1980s. It was one of the three largest Halloween costume manufacturers in the U.S. from the 1950s through the mid-1980s. [1]

  5. Corocraft - Wikipedia

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    In 1901, Emanuel Cohn and Carl Rosenberger established the accessories boutique Cohn and Rosenberger in New York City, which was later shortened to Coro. In 1929, Coro purchased a manufacturing facility in Providence , Rhode Island , which would later become the world's largest costume jewelry facility.

  6. In America: An Anthology of Fashion - Wikipedia

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    In America: An Anthology of Fashion is the 2022 high fashion art exhibition of the Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) which houses the collection of the Costume Institute. It is the piece of a two-part exhibit that explores fashion in the United States.

  7. Made in America (TV program) - Wikipedia

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    John Ratzenberger's Made in America is an American documentary television series hosted by John Ratzenberger. The series premiered January 6, 2004, on the Travel Channel . [ 1 ] Ratzenberger visits various American manufacturers, taking the show's viewers along on the tours and showing how various everyday items are made.

  8. Costume - Wikipedia

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    A costume technician is a term used for a person that constructs and/or alters the costumes. [8] The costume technician is responsible for taking the two dimensional sketch and translating it to create a garment that resembles the designer's rendering. It is important for a technician to keep the ideas of the designer in mind when building the ...

  9. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a dealer in small items and accessories, as for sewing; hence haberdashery (US: notions) a dealer in men's apparel and accessories; hence haberdashery: half half pint of beer, cider or lager a single measure of whisky or other distilled spirit (used mostly in Scotland, derived from the Scots word 'hauf') fifty percent/0.5 times.