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Costumer’s Guild West Inc is excited to announce the Costume College 2026 Gala theme: Super-Sized Sleeve Soiree! A night so grand, even the sleeves need their own seating chart. The time has come to puff it, poof it, and parade it like you mean it. Come dressed in your most ludicrously voluminous finery — leg-of-mutton, balloon, bishop, bell, or experimental monstrosity. This is a night for exaggerated elegance and fashion that defies both gravity and good taste. The sleeves will be big, and the dance floor will be pure chaos. Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026 Location: Los Angeles, CA 🎟️ Separate ticket required. Tickets sales information coming October 2025 https://www.costumecollege.net/saturday-time-traveler-s-gala . . .

Turn it up a notch (or two or three!) Join the preposterously decorated, the absurdly silly, and the fantastically grotesque - from couture chaos to DIY fever dreams - because this year we’re saying YES, AND!!! More Info: https://www.costumecollege.net/2026-theme-details . . .

Costumer’s Guild West, Inc. presents the 2025 Gala Theme: The Roaring Twenties. Choose your century and represent your decade! Date: Saturday, August 2, 2025 Location: Los Angeles, CA Tickets go on sale in Spring 2025 . . .

Costume College presents the 2024 theme: Costumes of Stage and Screen! There’s nothing like movies, television, and the stage to provide creativity and this year at Costume College 2024, we invite you to indulge in a variety of classes and events inspired by our favorite entertainment themes. What are yours? Costume College 2024 Dates July 18 - 22, 2024. Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hotel (Los Angeles, CA USA) . . .

We are gearing up for Costume College 2024 Class Submission and want to know what class topics you might be interested in this year as inspiration for our potential teachers. Classes can range in topic from historical eras to different cosplay genres to specific sewing or crafting techniques and beyond, so let us know what you would like to learn about next/this year! Please suggest in the comments! Class Submissions open December 4, 2023. . . .

April Update: The Costumer's Guild West, Inc. (CGW)'s Board of Directors will be (virtually) meeting this weekend to discuss whether or not Costume College 2020 will go on as scheduled or if it will be canceled (skip this year). An announcement from the CGW's Board on their decision will be forthcoming next week. Please give them a few days after the meeting to process and write up their response before it is published online for all to see and read. . . . .

#Repost @cgwinc • • • • • • Costumer's Guild West, Inc. (CGW)'s Board Update: The CGW Board has decided that *IF* Costume College 2020 is cancelled, we will keep everything that we can the same from 2020 and put it all in place for 2021. This would include event themes and such. Yes, there would be some class changes and maybe a committee member or two would decline to continue but basically we would have the 2020’s event in 2021 *IF* we have to cancel in 2020. At this time, there are no plans for cancelling 2020, so no matter what, keep sewing, wash your hands and stay inside if you can. -Mela, CGW President . . . . #CostumeCollege2020 #CostumeCollege #conference #costuming #cgw #cgwinc #costumersguildwest #keepsewing #washyourhands #stayhealthy https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ILQgygvZp/?igshid=1adwp5aljpa7k

Bring your friends. Bring your cousins. Bring your local Red Hat Society chapter. We want to meet them all. https://www.costumecollege.net/register