That last one, especially, is a winner! You are very clever and thrifty. I identify with all these because I've been making cosplay costumes for my kids using repurposed thrift store finds for years. My favorite - or one of them - was the Edward Elric costume I made when she was 11. I used a very small woman's red coatdress for his long red coat (taken in and the collar altered) and cut down a black cotton shirt and added grey bias tape for the underneath shirt. He has a special pin at the shirt collar; we made it of sculpy and glued on a pin back. She wore her own braid. I love doing this and always wonder why I don't do it for myself!
Thank you! I think my success with these hats is mainly having really gorgeous plumes. I can't resist putting a plume on a hat; it's my favorite look. The first and last hats have a really gorgeous vintage plumes. Modern ones just aren't as nice. I used bias tape for my vivandiere costume, which was also a man's shirt that I cut down. You can do so much just by looking at illustrations and tinkering around. It is a lot more fun than spending money on a pre-made costume, because it gives such a satisfied feeling of accomplishment.
I am going to do an Oscar Wilde costume next, and I have a few other ideas floating around. But I'm not as motivated in summer - long winter evenings are great for costuming.
There are so many misconceptions about Wilde's clothing! People seem to think he wore pink and purple and lots of frills. Actually his aesthetic costume was black velvet knee breeches, patent leather pumps, clocked stockings, white shirt, velvet doublet, velvet vest, cravat, cloack, and wideawake hat. He wore that while lecturing in the US. In London he mostly dressed like any other fashionable gent with cutaway or frock coats and bowler hats.
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I am going to do an Oscar Wilde costume next, and I have a few other ideas floating around. But I'm not as motivated in summer - long winter evenings are great for costuming.
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I don't know if you saw my post about this guy and his costumes, but if not, you should take a peek!
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He was not half as outlandishly dressed as people seem to think he was! Have a look http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/wildphot/sarony.htm though of course they are black and white, but he did not wear purple!
Nice costumes on http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html
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