Costume design is the fabrication of apparel for the overall appearance of a character or performer. This usually involves researching, designing and building the actual items from conception. Costumes may be for a theater or cinema

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 performance but may not be limited to such. Costume design should not be confused with Costume coordination

Costume coordination

Costume coordination consists of pulling existing stock clothing and costumes and altering them to be used in a theatrical production. Much like costume design, coordinating creates the characters over all appearance with the use of on hand items including accessories.Many theatres with smaller...

 which merely involves altering existing clothing

Stage clothes

Stage clothes is a term for any clothes used by performers on stage.More specifically, the term is sometimes used only for those clothes which are specially made for the stage performance by a costume designer...

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Four types of costumes are used in theatrical design, Historical, fantastic, dance, and modern.

Designs are first sketched out and approved, then either draped on a form or a pattern drafted.