Costume design: It's in the details

Someday, maybe, costume design will be easy. All theaters will have some variation on Cher Horowitz's closet from "Clueless," and with a few swipes right and left they'll have arrived at a sartorial masterpiece. (Honestly, I can't believe we don't have that wardrobe technology yet. It's 2014! Get on it, science.) But until that fateful day, theaters rely on the talents of costume designers, who often are responsible for approximately 10,000 things simultaneously, all of which must be completed b...