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costumes: gothic fantasy LotR characters 16th century 18th century 19th century 20th century science fiction from T&T's Real Travels: costume videos |
When I was five years old, I loved to dress up in black tights and a trenchcoat to play Mrs. Peel from "The Avengers." My childhood dress-up box was well-stocked with florid paisley scarves, faux pearl ropes, giant hoop earrings, and scraps of chiffon and velvet. I also made liberal use of cut-up bedsheets for costuming. I learned to sew at my mom's and grandmom's knees and made goofy wardrobes for miniature mice. Then, as a teenager, I discovered thrift stores and started dressing in funny clothes every day. For an excuse to play in weird clothes, I have been involved in independent Renaissance guilds, the Greater Bay Area Costumer's Guild, live-action Vampire games, BayCon, net.goth Convergences, and gigantic Halloween parties, among other things. Often I joke that I've been a beginning costumer for all my life, primarily because I hate to sew. While I've studied various eras of historical clothing, nit-picky accuracy is not my bag, baby. I've judged scifi convention masquerades for years, yet I've competed just once. My only claim to costuming fame is that I was president of the GBACG for a couple years and created the Guild's first website. Event planning is more my forte than recreating precise historical or media recreation costumes. That said, I adore the art of costume and always have plans and dreams of fancy dress in my head. Clothing and costume are passions of mine, and I'm a clothes horse in the worst way. Welcome to my closet!
dress diary and event updates as of November 9, 2008:
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My other sites ~ Gothic Martha Stewart ~ Famous Dead Person's Ball ~ the Bass-Dowrie House ~ Trystan & Thomas' Wedding TrystanCraft.com ~ T&T's Real Travels
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