Pat Hall (Designer)

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Pat Hall has created costumes for many students over the past 45 years. Dance has been a major part of Pat’s life for 70 years. Starting dance at the age of 5: Performing Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Character, Pointe, and East Indian dancing for 14 years and moving on to owning Pat Hall’s Dance Unlimited for 25 years. She sold her studios and has been teaching Ballet for Miss Donna’s School of Dance for 21 years.
​Designing has always been a part of teaching dance and when the studios were sold her business grew. Solos, duos, trios, small groups and large groups were produced and not repeated. Her customers and prior students, that have purchased costumes continue to come back for pageant, prom, and ballroom. Miss North Carolina, Miss Teen North Carolina as well as many other local winners strive to have a one of a kind custom costume.
Since 2010, Pat has been a part of the Glamour Costumes family as a designer for their catalog. The costumes are designed to be unique but affordable for all studios and performance companies across the country.
Friendships have been a large part of the business due to learning their tastes for colors and styles. Pat's customers trust her to create and design that special costume. Judging for many years for top competition companies broadened her knowledge of styles across the country. She has been named the “Rhinestone Queen!"

Olivia Swinney (Assistant)

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Liv has been a part of the dance industry since the early age of 3 years of old. Growing up traveling to numerous dance competitions, Liv won many scholarships, and overalls as well as National and World Dance Championships. Her love and passion for dancing has always been a huge part of who she is and she loves being able to assist with costume designs that fit each dancer. Her love of rhinestoning and sewing is like no other. She is a 2024 graduate of Central Academy of Technology of Arts where she was a part of their Dance Academy for 4 years. She enjoys choreographing her favorite dance genres; ballet, jazz, lyrical, and contemporary. Liv attends Appalachian State University where she is majoring in Elementary Education and minoring in Dance Education. Her outgoing and vibrant personality is infectious!

Caleb Moss (Seamstress)

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Caleb Moss began dancing at 6 years old and has over 30 years. Caleb has trained with some of the world's leading choreographers and Directors. Some of Caleb’s credits include Fox’s "So You Think You Can Dance, Mamma Mia Australian Tour, Beauty and the Beast US National Tour, Disney Parks, Top Hat European Tour, Burn The Floor Australian Tour, Royal

Caribbean Cruise Lines, Verizon Wireless, Hersheypark, Holland America Line, North Carolina Lottery, and The LOGO Network.” In 2020 Caleb moved full-time to the costuming world. He has been a part of the entertainment industry for over 30 years. He has worked with some of the largest entertainment companies in the world. Some of his costuming credits include RuPaul's Drag Race, Royal Caribbean, Cedar Fair, RWS Entertainment Group & more. Caleb has won countless awards for his costumes and worked with some of the leading designers and creators in the industry.

Victoria Snider (Rhinestoner)

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​Victoria has been part of the dance community since the age of three and competed from the age of ten until she graduated high school. While in high school she danced for the WNBA Charlotte Sting and continues her volunteer work with the current Honeybees team as an alumni member. She taught dance for 4 years during college and has remained active in the dance community through her costume work. She has been working for Pat for over 16 years and has a great deal of experience to make sure that your costumes shine as bright at your dancers do on stage! The latest news, Victoria now has a beautiful baby girl, Isla.  

Ashley Swinney

(Rhinestoner/ Stitcher)

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Ashley Swinney began dancing at the early age of three. After many years of being out of the dance industry, she was reintroduced when her daughter, Olivia, started dancing in 2010. Her love of costumes and the overall design process has become a passion of hers. Ashley has worked for Pat for 8 years now and her overall personality is contagious! She enjoys sewing, rhinestoning, organizing, and the overall process that it takes to make a costume. Ashley is married to her husband Rob and has two children, Nathan and Liv.

Cameron Pace Zell (Seamstress)

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Cameron Zell began dancing at the age of 5, with training from Northwest School of the Arts in musical theatre and dance, as well as Miss Donnas School of Dance in all styles.
She competitively danced and has performed in several musicals including Hair (NWSA), The Wedding Singer (NWSA) and Legally Blonde (NCT) as well as the ballet, Sleeping Beauty (NWSA) and films including The Strange and Unusual, The Ultimate Life, Shuffleton's Barbershop, Inara the Jungle Girl, Goddess of War and a Mobil 1 commercial. ​She is currently the Tap and Hip-Hop choreographer at Star Struck Dance Studio and the Middle-School Musical Theatre choreographer at Northwest School of the Arts!
​With her knowledge in Theatre and Dance, as well as a love of fashion, Cameron found a new passion in sewing! She has been working for Pat Hall for 8 years, primarily with the hand-sewing, but enjoys designing and rhinestoning too!
Cameron has won awards such as the Top Vocalist and Tap Soloist at Star Systems Nationals in 2011, 2010/11 Scholarship from Miss Donnas School of Dance, the 2011 Order of the Dragon from Northwest School of the Arts and several costume awards! Updating her bio, she has married Louis Zell and has a handsome boy, Luke.  

Woody Hall (Supervisor)

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Woody chooses fabrics by laying on them, for quality control. He greets all the customers with a smiling face. He has assisted the costume shop for the past 8 years. He loves to be petted, especially underneath his chin. He weighs approximately 23 pounds (as much as a 2 year old).