{"id":9667,"date":"2023-03-31T19:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T02:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2023-03-31T19:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T02:23:28","slug":"six-books-that-inspired-costuming-from-the-hip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2023\/03\/six-books-that-inspired-costuming-from-the-hip\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Books that Inspired &#8220;Costuming from the Hip&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_xOa8SL7yVg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Six Books that Inspired &#8220;Costuming From the Hip&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2HujhGK\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9669\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2023\/03\/six-books-that-inspired-costuming-from-the-hip\/cfth-frontcover300dpi-copy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CFTH-FrontCover300dpi-copy.tif\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"CFTH-FrontCover300dpi copy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CFTH-FrontCover300dpi-copy.tif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CFTH-FrontCover300dpi-copy.tif\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9669\" 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data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I am working on the 30th-anniversary rewrite of my classic 1993 book, <strong><em>&#8220;Costuming From the Hip.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> Wheee&#8230;\u00a0 This project was on my agenda for 2022, but life got a little out of hand, and here we are in 2023 setting other projects on the back burner.\u00a0 Our mission is to get this new edition done by the end of this year or in early &#8217;24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Part of this process involves working through my own archive and research collection.\u00a0 In this video, I share the six books that directly inspired the creation of my book way back in 1992.\u00a0 Costuming From the Hip grew from this inspiration with the help of my growing collection of class handouts and research notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;m thrilled that editor Nancy Hay, and my co-author and photographer Alisha Westerfeld will join me on this adventure!\u00a0 We&#8217;re working together to update, modernize, and expand on the information, illustrations, and photos of the original version. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Yes, you read that. The new edition of CFTH will feature photos of dancers in costumes!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s an exciting time here in Studio Davina.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I look forward to sharing more progress reports in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Dawn Devine ~ Davina<br \/>\nMarch, 2023<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2023\/03\/six-books-that-inspired-costuming-from-the-hip\/\"><img width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CFTH-FrontCover300dpi-copy.tif\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" data-attachment-id=\"9669\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2023\/03\/six-books-that-inspired-costuming-from-the-hip\/cfth-frontcover300dpi-copy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CFTH-FrontCover300dpi-copy.tif\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"CFTH-FrontCover300dpi copy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CFTH-FrontCover300dpi-copy.tif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CFTH-FrontCover300dpi-copy.tif\" \/><\/a><p>&nbsp; Six Books that Inspired &#8220;Costuming From the Hip&#8221; I am working on the 30th-anniversary rewrite of my classic 1993 book, &#8220;Costuming From the Hip.&#8221;\u00a0 Wheee&#8230;\u00a0 This project was on my agenda for 2022, but life got a little out of hand, and here we are in 2023 setting other projects on the back burner.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/CFTH-FrontCover300dpi-copy.tif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-2vV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9677,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions\/9677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}