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A float rider's satin-covered fez. A royal wardrobe eventually springs from paint on paper.
On Mardi Gras, Susu Kearney, the designer of Rex's float rider costumes, takes her sketch book out to the parade route. As the floats cruise down St. Charles Avenue in a blur of papier mache and plastic beads, she watches for fabrics that catch the eye at crowd-level. She looks for colors that pop both in the bright afternoon sun and in the patchy shadows of an oak tree.
'Most people don't pay much attention to the costumes on the floats, but if they tell me that the parade was beautiful, then I feel the costumes were part of that whole,' said Kearney, an art teacher at Trinity Episcopal School who has been designing for Rex since 1973.
Kearney is one of four carnival costume designers who discussed their work recently at the Cabildo in conjunction with the Louisiana State Museum's Mardi Gras exhibit, 'Continuing the Legacy: Carnival Costume Design, 1946-2008.'
The exhibit, on display at the Presbytere, features more than 70 design illustrations and a few costumes from the museum's extensive carnival collection.
The panel also featured designers San Nicholas, Carter Church and Anthony Colombo as well as Elizabeth Youngblood Canik, the niece of designer Larry Youngblood, who died in 2007.
The design illustrations provide a small window into the studios where carnival's most fanciful costumes are conceived

It is unclear what the status of Jacksonville linebeacker Mike Peterson will be following his one-game team suspension for the Detroit game on Sunday. Peterson made the trip, but he did not suit up and sat on the sidelines during the 38-14 blowout of the Lions. Coach Jack Del Rio addresses the media weekly on Monday's and perhaps he will shed some light today as to what the future holds in store for Peterson

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