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Bill Theiss was the creative and imaginative wardrobe designer for ST: TOS. The following is trivia about the talented Mr. Theiss from AMIANNOYING.

Bill had a brief, unsuccessful career as a painter.

Producer Robert Justman who worked with Bill on the original show, commenting about Bill as they worked together on ST: TNG. "Still impatient, contentious, and very private."

Bill was famed for designing costumes for actresses that were sexy without actually revealing anything that TV censors could legitimately object to.

The Theiss Titillation Theory: The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the perceived possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off.

Bill won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Costume Design for ST: TNG episode "The Big Goodbye" in 1989.

Bill's will stated that the Star Trek costumes he collected were to be auctioned off for Project Angel Food. This was an L.A.-based non-profit group that would deliver meals to people with AIDS, cancer, and other diseases.

So Bill was not only a tremendously talented gentleman, he was equally kind and thoughtful.

[Bud Brewster]

[Maurice]

Theiss was the costume designer on TNG's first season, and he won the Emmy for the Dixon Hill holodeck costumes, specificlally.

In 2020 I wrote a piece about him for StarTrek.com titled
William Ware Theiss In and Out of Uniform, which you can read here.
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[Bud Brewster]

Maurice, I'm living vicariously through you! I'm so impressed with the graphic at the head your piece oN STAR TREK.COM that I just had to display it here (and embed the link), to encourage our members to read the article.

And I was impressed again by your writing skills. Please share more of your articles with All Sci-Fi.
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