party party....some of my own costumes

dressing up box

Some random costumes.....

 

my boy Owen wanted a Bubbles costume for a Michael Jackson party. 

Cute.

 These next were for Marcus' Rosemary's Baby Shower. Marcus as Rosemary , and Neil and I as Minnie and Roman Casavets. Not so cute

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 and me at halloween a couple of years ago....

I  love my hat

all aboard the Underground Restaurant.....

At last, a chance to write about the latest lot of costumes. It as a hectic week or so down on the Isle of Wight, at Bestival. This was the second year that Kerstin aka MsMarmitelover has brought her Supper Club to Bestival, and she wanted a shipboard/pirate theme.
I wanted the costumes to look quite 18th century, and to use fabrics that i had in my stash. My budget was tiny, so it was imperative to keep costs down, and to make gorgeous costumes with stuff that I already had.
After lots of digging around in the binbags I managed to sort enough for most of the waistcoats. 

 

 

I bought an hideous black leather 80's bomber jacket from a charity shop. It had interesting striped figuring on some of it's panels and i knew I could do something with it. i made this jerkin with me in mind, but it ended up being perfect for Jim.
Tanya wore this one. I knew she'd love it, and i did make it with her in mind. A bit of old navy blue sheet, a scrap of red linen, and some gold ribbon. I gave some dome buttons, from a dismantled shirt, a spray of gold paint.
Mine and Izzi's came from the same brocade evening coat ( it wasn't very nice...I'd never cut up something really good). Izzi's had a panel of very pretty rose brocade, of which i only had a few small pieces, and frogs that came off an unpleasant cardi thing. I used the rest of these on the black and white waistcoat. 

I think the rusty velvet for the gypsy pirate came from my mum's stash drawer. The leather straps were cut from the bomber jacket, and the little dangly concha thingys were taken from the skirt that i used as one of my petticoats. Another charity shop find.