About our Company.
The Costume Loft

The Costume Loft has been in operation since 1984. With over 6,000 costumes available and a staff that encompasses experienced designers and artists, The Costume Loft offers a wide range of imaginative and innovative ideas. We provide service over the United States for theater, film,commercials, special events and Period weddings / Theme weddings.

You will find high quality costumes; built in-house, original designs and service you can count on.

Our desire is to create beautiful and high quality costumes, to offer our creativity and assistance for any event or occasion and to make renting a costume as fun as wearing a costume. We work with our clients to assure problem free productions. Our goal is to be a service business with attention to client needs while providing the highest quality products at exceptional value.

 

Our People

Marti Calson
Owner / Costume Designer

Phone: 541-928-0495
Fax: 541-791-9375

Marti studied costume design at UCLA and Choinnard Art Institute and has been costuming for over 50 years. With an emphasis on period costumes, she brings a high level of knowlege, creativity and expertise to her business.

Marti spent many years in the theater as a performer, director, lighting designer and costumer. From 2 person shows to large cast musicals she knows what it takes to get a production from concept to performance.

Marti believes in research and always does her homework. She believes that costumes should be as accurate (and comfortable) as possible.

Kevin Calson
General Manager / custom makeup - prosthetics

Phone: 541-928-0495
Fax: 541-791-9375

Kevin grew up in the theater and has performed, directed, conducted and designed many theater productions. He has been with the business off and on from it's beginning in 1984 so understands the needs of our clients.

Specializing in sculpting for prosthetic makeup appliances, airbrush body art, special effects and props; from time to time he welds frameworrks for costume accesories. Making him a man with ever shaping talents.

He also oversees the accounting and computer operations for the business of our in-house software system which Kevin developed and maintains giving The Costume Loft greater flexability in serving our clients. This website is created by Kevin with assistance and artistic contributions from Marti Calson and Cathy Calson of Calson Graphics.

Kevin may be found at the sewing machine, preparing a P&L, sculpting body parts and costume accessories or digitally altering photographs for our website. It all depends on what is needed the most on any given day.

 

541-928-0495

Please take the time to call us or email us. We are a company designed to provide great products and services.