To broaden his horizons and get more shop experience he moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and worked for several different costume shops including James Hayes Studio which focused on puppets and specialty items for movies and commercials Center Theatre Group, which built major musical and theatrical productions and J&M Costumers who worked on walk-around mascots, cruise ship performances, celebrities, and specialty TV and film requests. During that time he costumed his first full stage production for a non-profit group called "Halloween Magic" that produced one semi-original spoof musical every Halloween to benefit local AIDS charities. By his third year he was the second assistant to the head of the costume department and had joined the local theatrical wardrobe union in order to be able to tour with the ballet. In Houston he learned all of the essential aspects of costuming construction, starting as a stitcher, quickly taking on first handing, painting, and dyeing, then learning patterning, draping, millinery, and tutu construction. Ready to commit to a new career, he moved to Houston in 2003 and got a job at a high-end apparel fabric store to learn textiles, volunteered at the Alley theatre costume shop under Kenneth Chu, and started working part-time at the Houston Ballet costume shop under Pat Padilla and occasionally the Grand Opera costume shop as well. Wes's costume design work began in college when he costumed drag performances for the Krewe of Apollo along with numerous nightclubs in Baton Rouge, all while wishing he'd majored in something besides Landscape Architecture.
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