 Over the next few months, as part of a Graduate class assignment, I will be adding/reorganizing this article by dividing it into several sections: 1) Introduction 2) Origin and history 3) Design Process 4) Production Process 5) Fields and types of costume design and how they relate or differ from one another 6) Well known designers and their work 7) The business end; Prominent costume houses and Union organizations, qualifications and contracts.    