An Otherworldly World.(television program costume design)(Brief Article)

The life of a costume designer on daytime drama is usually about the grind--shopping, pulling wardrobe, building a piece here or there, five episodes a week, 52 weeks a year. Every so often come the big events that need something more: it could be a wedding, a time-travel dream sequence, or, more likely than not, a fancy-dress ball that requires a considerable amount of design and construction. Shawn Dudley, costume designer on NBC's long-running Another World, had just such an occasion to gear up for recently, yet on an even bigger scale than usual.

"This is the biggest party this show has done in, I think, 20 years," says Dudley, a two-time Emmy nominee during his three-year run on Another World, which has been struggling in the ratings recently. "It will air over six episodes, and everyone in the cast will be there. The executive producer really wanted to make a statement with these episodes. And we …