'White Collar' look is 'upscale and fashiony' but 'not very realistic,' admits costume designer

"Matthew is fun to dress," "Go On" costume designer Nancy Gould says. "He wears clothes well, and he looks good in clothes. His character is fun because he is successful and gets to have a good wardrobe, which means I get to have a little more fun." More

"It's a scrub bottom and a Vince tank top," says "Burn Notice" costume designer Danny Santiago of Fiona's prison chic. "Gabrielle is very petite, so a lot of designers don't fit. We tend to stick to certain brands because we know the proportion is going to work, but we still have to take things in and do alterations." More

"She is really into fashion, and she really gets the character, so we really love working on her character and how Annie would look in all these scenes," says "Covert Affairs" costume designer Trisha Baker. More

"They'll be falling off buildings and into water, which I hate having to deal with and informs what they are wearing," explains "Alphas" costume designer Susie Coulthard. More

"Because it is driven by artifacts from any time period, we enter into worlds we might normally not." More

"Beauty pageants are like Hollywood, we have an outfit for every occasion, even at the end and you are relaxing waiting for crowning." More

"We made all of her clothes, except maybe her blouses. Show me a dress for a 6-foot-tall woman in America that comes below her knee." More

"There is a fine line between being outrageous and designing something very creative and just wanting to be outrageous for the sake of being outrageous," "Project Runway" judge Nina Garcia says of Kooan Kosuke's shorts jumpsuit. More