My Favorite Things...183...Playing Dress Up

It all started a couple of weeks ago with Ric telling me about a segment on Martha Stewart, where she showed an easy way to make a Halloween wig with a plastic bag, some tape and some paper.  Ric's a clever one, and before I knew it he was making the base for a wig.  As luck would have it, the wig looked very French...very Louis "something"...very Marie Antoinette.

That conversation lead to a discussion of the amazing paper dress competition that they have on Project Runway...(and the uber-amazing dresses that they made a few weeks ago).  You can replay the entire paper dress episode by going to myLifetime.com/ProjectRunway

We then started prowling the internet for pictures of Marie Antoinette-era costumes to have a better idea of what men and women actually wore back then.  We discussed doing flat paper-doll-like dresses, full dresses, and then we settled on dresses that would be a "facade", for comedic effect...We did not finish the back of our outfits.  Instead we let our "undergarments" show.  In this case, the undergarments that we used were Tyvek Has-Mat Suits, that Ric picked up a the local hardware store. These adult-sized "one-sies" were what we taped the paper parts of the costume pieces to. 

The whole process was a lot of trial and error, but we had a lot of laughs the whole way through.

I'll have more snapshots from our Halloween eve in my next few blog...Fromthe  ghoulish make up applied to our faces & necks by Ric's daughter Erica, close ups of our outfits, last-minute fans to complete "the look", etc...

So y'all come back now, y'hear?  There's lots more to show & tell.

Back in two shakes...

;º)  H2

 

Comments

[Kathy]

Wow!! Your costumes are fabulous, love them!! Hope you had lots of fun on Halloween!

[helen]

Those costumes are both fabulous and hilarious! Very clever. And that's a great photo of the both of you.

[pam]

AMAZING costumes.

[Diane]

Looks like fun! wow!

[Air Jordan Flight Team]

I can't wait to see Monica's project! Knowing her, I'd say it would be worth it to set aside a dolly dresses panel...whatever she does with it will be amazing.