Born in Akron, Ohio in 1924, the son of Mary Martha (Bone) and Frederick Coleman Mostoller. He joined the Army in 1943. He studied fashion design in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1958 he went to work for NBC in New York. During the 1960s and 1970s he worked on television as a costume designer. He was best known for "The Doctors" where he was in charge of dressing the cast for the wedding of the character Althea Davis, which was one of the most lavish weddings of 1968 after that of Jackie Onassis. He was married to fellow costume designer Ramsey Mostoller. He died in Atlanta, Georgia in 1997.
Usually the clothes on the show are credited from Orbach's. This means we borrow them from the store, return them after the show, and they're put back on the rack. But we worked in the wedding party dresses for five days, so we had to buy them.