costume box!

[thanate]

I'm making the Megatherium a box of play costumes for Christmas (or more probably, some of it for Christmas, with future installments for birthday and onward.)

Has anyone brilliant inspirations for what to put in it?

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[batchix]

I always liked slips. they're pretty and frilly. I used to scandalize my brother by running around in nothing but mom's slips. My friends had a box of dress up clothes that were all super bright colors and ridiculously frilly but easy to wash. i was so jealous of them. Other than the slips, i never had any dress up clothes!

Old halloween costumes are good too. As are props, like toy swords and wands. You never know when you're going to be called upon to save the kingdom.

[thanate]

The model we're starting with is the frilly ballet skirts her friend has. (said friend is obsessed with Angelina Ballerina.) And of course the hallowe'en costumes are going in. :)

[batchix]

I admit that I had a few yukata that my grandma had found. I had no idea how to wear them, I knew they weren't korean, but they were as asian a thing as I could get in southern Illinois. I felt very fancy in them, they were really soft.

oh! old costume jewelry from the thrift shop. It's funny, that's another thing my grandma would pick me up at the christmas rummage sale at her church. And now I see a lot of those pieces being sold for a lot of money on Etsy. XD

[mrissa]

The very best thing for me in dress-up was cloaks. They swirl mysteriously! They can be crouched in dramatically or throw back for effect! What I used for cloaks was an old denim wrap skirt and an old khaki wrap skirt of my mother's. They were the proper length and weight on a mini-Mris and didn't cost her anything, but I expect there are more explicitly cloak/cape options for littles now.

[mrissa]

When I brought this up last night to my household, A, and the godzilla parents, we also came up with hats, pin/clip-on tails, and headband-ears. In common with cloaks, these things can be flung off and on very quickly and combined easily for imagination-play--"I am a pirate-kitty!" or "Queen of the firefighters!" or whatever. The full-outfit kind of dress-up is its own kind of awesome but a) does a lot of the pretend for you and b) takes a level of commitment that small-child play is not always interested in sustaining.

[mrissa]

Oh, and wings. Either the fairy wings that go on the back or the more bat-like wings that are more like a cape with arm attachments for swooping around.

[thanate]

These things are all awesome things. I should updated with what's on my list, except actually I should go make more things. (argh, time, etc)