Downton Abbey Exhibit

I was lucky enough to get to go to the Downton Abbey exhibit at Winterthur again back in November - round 2 of exhibit pics here: http://www.costumersguide.com/imagearchive/index.php?%2Fcategory%2F518

Round 1 was here: http://www.costumersguide.com/imagearchive/index.php?%2Fcategory%2F515

Maddie's boho dress...

The TV show Nashville is one of my guilty pleasures. One of my fav things about it are the two girls (sisters in real life) who play the daughters of country singer Rayna James. In real life, the sisters actually do sing and play guitar and they're super talented. When they did this cover of the Lumineers' "Ho Hey" on the show, I totally fell in love. The song is awesome:


And though I'm not the same age/size of Maddie (played by Lennon Stella), I also loved her dress. And unlike a lot of shows that have characters with cool clothes, this dress is actually still available. I got one and love it! 

It's available here:
http://www.freepeople.com/perfect-day-dress/_/productOptionIDs/f93c517e-bf11-4cb1-b91c-23b8dbd65f8e,fbce3f39-3ae3-4593-ae5c-cde7bcffd65b/?cm_mmc=OpEmail-_-OrderConfirm-_-V1-_-item1

Star Trek uniform

I have friends who want to do a costume group, so I splurged on one of the Anovos Star Trek uniforms. It's really cool and the body of it was true to size, but the sleeves were SO small. I'm not skinny, but I don't think my forearms are abnormally large and I could barely fit them in the sleeve! Fortunately there are huge seam allowances in both seams of the sleeve, so I let them all out and it fits better. It's also a stretchy material, which helps.

Here are some pics on the dress form, and a few of Uhuru in the original.  (I bought the blue uniform - science, you know!)

Wash, War Stories shirt

Look what I won on ebay for like 20 bucks! It's the right shirt for Wash from War Stories! yay!  I can update Doug's costume with the correct shirt now!

I can't believe it - they had a couple of Wash shirts on ebay a while ago and they were expensive so I passed, and I regretted it. But here was this one for 20 bucks! Woot!

Many thanks to the kind soul who posted the ebay link on LJ!

It doesn't have identical placement of the pattern, but I'm not sure duplicating that is possible! At least it's the right print!

Glee Season 1 costume

We had a large group do Glee costumes for DragonCon 2010.  It was a lot of fun to throw this together.

Lady Gaga Glee Rachel costume

For DragonCon 2010, my friends and I did costumes from the Lady Gaga episode of Glee. I was "stuffed animal" Rachel.

Though Rachel says that her dad's stapled the stuffed animals on, there was no way I wouldn't be all scratched to hell like that - so I went with tacking the stuffed animals on. This took forever. I got the stuffed animals off ebay - 3 lots of beanie babies and one lot of someone's childhood toys. :-/

I actually really hated making this. Seriously, after my first day of gutting stuffed animals I was nauseated! It's really heavy, actually, despite me taking most of the stuffing/beads out of the animals. Mine's a little longer than hers and after wearing it a few times at DragonCon, things were starting fall off (we have a jumper!). I need to shorten it a bit, and retack things on if I wear it again.

Here is the web page for my costume construction details and more photos:
http://costumersguide.com/maggie_costumes/badromance.html

Here is our whole group:

Not only did we make the costumes, but we learned choreography!!

Here is one Masquerade vid of us. It's from the side, not the front, so the effect of the line isn't great. Whoever did the tech work on the official one, that got broadcast knew what they were doing because they knew exactly who to focus on and when, like they'd not only seen, but studied the Glee episode.
If we're out of time with each other a bit it's because we could barely hear the music on stage (no monitors?) and if it weren't for the audience clapping...

Also, that stage was wide but really short and it was hard to fit us all in. We had no rehearsal on that stage at all, and were really fortunate that we were able to sneak in and stand on it so we could look at the dimensions. Have I excused it enough?

But this is still cool! We start at 10 minutes in:

Lost Dharma jumpsuits

For DragonCon 2009, my friend Michelle and I made Dharma jumpsuits.

We figured they'd be an easy costume. The jumpsuits and patches were purchased, and my awesome friend, Scott, embroidered the pockets for us.  We wore them in 2010 too!

Here is the web page for my costume construction details and more photos:
http://costumersguide.com/maggie_costumes/lost.html

Firefly Jayne hat

Ok, I didn't actually make this one. My mom did.  But that's screen accurate, right, because Jayne's mom made his?  Right?

Anyway, I love how it turned out, and Adam Baldwin himself called it a "very fine hat".

Firefly Kaylee costume from the pilot episode

I put this one together for DragonCon 2005. My goal was really to do the least amount of sewing possible, so this isn't screen accurate, though I did (belatedly) get a screen accurate bear patch for the leg. I have it in some pics and not in others. I did paint the parasol. Backwards.  I also made my husband a Wash costume. Again, not screen accurate.

Here is the web page for my costume with my research and more photos:
http://costumersguide.com/maggie_costumes/my_kaylee.html