Since I was about 13 years old I was on the career path of Costume Design for Theater, Film and TV. Now, after 25 years in the field a much more important use of my specific knowledge and skills has become clear. As I face the challenges of the physical changes that accompany my cancer treatments I am actually having fun taking lots of the tricks of my trade and trying them on myself.

Having dressed celebrities like, Chris Cooper, Dixie Carter, Julianna Margolis and so many others through the years I have always been good at knowing how to help others put their best foot forward. My skill is in both applying taste and style to the choices of clothing required but also to supporting the emotional needs of the actor to enable them to perform at their best.

Well, isn't that what we have to do every day? And isn't it a lot harder than it used to be - when we had hair, health, and energy to burn?

Once I became aware that I didn't love wearing my wig (a longer story I will share soon) I turned to the world of hats. After a few key hat investments I realized that, if I was going to beat hat boredom I needed to come up with some more clever, reasonably priced, easy to do, comfortable yet stylish solutions.

I tried tying scarves and found them hard to manage. Mine were either not the best fabrics to stay well, not the right shapes to tie well or the prints didn't go with enough of my clothing. I only got a few to work but in doing so I was eventually reminded of one of the very earliest tricks in my book.

When I was first starting to costume plays in the early years of my career, I think I was 16. I did a lot of them at my Temple or through other community religious programs. Most of these were Bible stories or celebrations of holidays that required what I call the "Shepherd and Shepherdess' look". It was easy to mass-produce for a chorus of Bedouins and machine washable!

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Remembering this trick and stocking up on a variety of colors has truly revolutionized my post-chemotherapy-treatment wardrobe. I team them up with coordinating T-shirts or tank tops and I am good to go.

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