The costume department
Past costumes
These are some of my costumes that I built out of whatever was lying around the house.
- The skeleton was a halloween costume in 2018. When I was on an underground platform, a boy turned, was startled and screamed.
I still have the hat and the bandana (it's fraying). The skeleton body suit belonged to a friend's child.
- The bull was representing Spain for a work event in 2016. I made this in an evening after two bottles of beer.
There is a Picasso print taped on my chest. The nose ring is basically cut out of cardboard and wrapped over with electric tape.
- The ghost was a halloween costume in 2021, I walked through town and to a D&D game where I met Travolta, 2 Hobbits and a Werewolf.
I made the eyes and mouth by cutting out holes and sewing pieces of fabric from black tights over them.
Future costumes
One day I will have a separate wardrobe full of costumes and I will not wait for special occasions to wear them, I will be able
to inhabit different characters on regular days. Then I'll invest more time and effort into making them. Some of the costumes that I'd love to make are:
- Devil - the way I envisage it is a vintage devil, perhaps 1920s or whereabous, and the devil from old cartoons and comic books. Mask with arches over the eyebrows a must!
- Devil - but a lawyer. Might wait until I'm actually a lawyer before I do this.
- Wizard - I'm thinking Prospero and Disney's Fantasia, that conical hat decorated with stars. Also a cape. Maybe some sheer veils.
- Walking dead - I just want to wear something white with lots of fake blood over it.
- Pierrot - I have a few variations in mind. I'd like an Elizabethan ruff.
- Woland and his entourage - Behemoth, Azazello, Korovyev and Hella. I want to do them all.
- Witch - grr! I'm thinking Victorian vibes.
- Christmas tree - with baubles and lights, the full shebang.
- Jester - another opportunity to wear a ruff? Also lots of bells.
- Cabaret showperson - in shorts and glitter and fake fearther boa, this is all about make-up.
- Giant suit - David Byrne is the obvious inspiration but I'd like to try different versions of this.
- King - the furs (fake ofc), the sceptre, the crown, the lot. I'm imagining the song King by Florence Welch and the king in a pack of cards, simultaneously.
- Doctor - I've made this costume as a kid and spent my life missing that high. Lab coats is where it's at.
- Mushroom - I've played a porcini mushroom in a school play but next time I'm going to be fly agaric.
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