Wonder Woman — an American icon. She symbolizes strength, beauty, justice, patriotism… I could go on and on.
Through the years, many have worn a Wonder Woman costume. Admittedly, not everyone looks great dressed as Wonder Woman….
Well now, thanks to Bam! Kapow!, the 50 hottest Wonder Woman look-alikes have been gathered for your viewing pleasure.
Great pics! You can view the entire Wonder Woman gallery HERE.
This is a fun video made by costume guru Shada. She’s working on a Sith costume and is documenting her progress with a video camera!
Here’s Part One of her costume journey:
Great work! Very fun to watch.
Looking for some really strange costume ideas? Check out this “Costume Art” created by Philip Toledano.
His goal is to illustrate the “external manifestation of the internal desires and paranoia that are adrift in America.”
Woah, that’s heavy stuff! And definitely some of the strangest costumes I’ve ever seen.
Hmm, for some reason that last costume is making me hungry….
You can learn more about Mr. Toledano’s art by visiting:
http://mrtoledano.com.
Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, is about to debut his newest creation: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It’s a musical web series that will appear online in just a few weeks.
Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day, the story is about the evil Dr. Horrible and his nemesis, Captain Hammer.
It looks totally funny! Check out the teaser trailer:
Having been deemed as the writer with the most costuming experience, I am here to share with you–
A Short History of My Own Costuming Experience.
Part Two: College
The next few years saw a little improvement in my costume-making skills. Of the sewing I did at this time, my creation efforts were mostly redirected to making normal clothing, and I only made three real costumes during my years of college. One was a cosplay of Victoria Everglot from Corpse Bride, one was a Queen of Spades costume, and the other was a new, more awesome pirate costume.
Originally, jousting tournaments were held as military exercises between the various nobles. Such tournaments started peacefully but often turned into bloody battles between jealous champions.
At the end of the thirteenth century, jousting tournaments started evolving into organized spectacles, subject to chivalry and fair play and often fought with blunted weapons. The knight’s object became one of knocking opponents off their horses.
Modern day Renaissance Fairs, The Society for Creative Anachronism and the National Jousting Association have kept the sport of jousting alive.
But a new style of jousting is emerging, quickly gaining widespread popularity.
Nowhere is there another sport that encourages more pageantry, chivalry, and excitement than what you’re about to witness…
Here are some amazing costumes made from duct tape! And yes, we’ve blogged about duct tape costumes before.
These particular costumes are modeled after the characters Mal and Kaylee from the TV show Firefly. In one of the episodes, Mal and Kaylee go to a fancy shindig all dressed up. It’s remarkable that a costume made from duct tape could look so similar.
The costumes’ creator posts about his efforts on Fireflyfans.net.
I decided to enter the “Stuck at Prom” contest sponsored by the company that makes Duck Tape. In this contest, high school students from all over the country create prom outfits using duct tape. Ten finalists are selected from all of the entries, and online voting determines the winner. To demonstrate my devotion to Firefly, I created my duct tape ensemble inspired by Mal’s tux and Kaylee’s dress from Shindig. These outfits made it into the top ten.
I used over 20 rolls of duct tape, and had to overcome laws of physics (all those ruffles are heavy!) as well as wear the outfit in Phoenix summer temperatures exceeding 107 degrees.
Wow, great job! I hope you win.
You can see all of the Top Ten finalists at stuckatprom.com.
UPDATE: Watch the video HERE.
Remember these guys from Sesame Street? Yip yip yip yip…
Well, thanks to Instructables.com, you can learn how to make your own Yip Yip alien costume! They offer a step by step guide using fleece, sponges and mesh. Looks great!
I used to love these funny aliens, who were always trying to understand common household objects like a telephone, radio or clock.
They would pull out their little book to learn about Earth, it was always so funny!
Yipyipyip, brrring! … ah, good times. Definitely one of Sesame Street’s greatest creatures.
So head on over to Instructables.com to make your Yip Yip costume!
BugsandFishes is a top-notch maker who blogs daily about her crafts and creations.
She’s just published some photos of her new felt masks and disguises. They look great!
BugsandFishes sells her items at Etsy and Dawanda where she’s known as Lupin. She also runs the Crafting 365 group over at Flickr.
Quite a talent! Blogging every single day about crafts shows incredible dedication to her art. She deserves a big felt medal of honor.
Now here’s a look you don’t see everyday…probably because we don’t live in Tokyo.
These fascinating young ladies are followers of a fashion called Yamanba, a derivative of Ganguru fashion which rose to popularity in the 1990’s, mostly among teenage girls and women in their early 20’s, generally confined to Tokyo’s trendy shopping districts.
Ganguro fashion is characterized by tanned skin combined with hair dyed in shades of orange to blonde, or a silver gray known as high bleached. Black ink is used as eyeliner and white concealer is used as lipstick and eye shadow. Features are often further embellished by false eyelashes, plastic facial gems, and pearl powder.
Platform shoes and brightly-colored outfits complete the look. Other accessories typical of Ganguro fashion include miniskirts, stickers on the face, and lots of bracelets, rings, and necklaces.
Yamanba also feature dark tans, with white lipstick, pastel eye makeup, tiny metallic or glittery adhesives below the eyes, brightly-colored contact lenses, plastic dayglo-colored clothing, 4-6 inch platform boots, micro-mini skirts and mismatched accessories. Some wear stuffed animals as decorations!
If the two styles seem very similar, near as I can tell, it’s because they are. Yamanba seems to be a term used to describe orthodox followers of the Ganguro fashion.
I don’t know…this style kind of reminds me of my wild 80’s days when I used to have really bleached hair (with a duck tail) and I wore a neon pink trench coat with lots of bright jelly bracelets (and my boyfriend used to wear a pair of red plastic shoes that my family always made fun of).
My parents thought my 80’s fashion phase was a bit over-the-top. No doubt the traditional Japanese folks think Yamanba is “out there” as well (those familiar with Tokyo’s fashion trends say that the Yamanba phase is on its way out).
But crazy fashions always make for great costume ideas. I read several blog post comments that indicated teen girls are very interested in the Yamanba fashion as party costumes.
So give credit where credit is due. While Tokyo’s Yamanba look may not be the best idea for the fashion world…it definitely makes for eye-catching costumes!
This weekend I got the opportunity to go to the Scottish Festival at Thanksgiving Point in Utah. It was awesome! I got to see some rocking celtic bands, participate in celtic rituals like waulking, eat haggis for the first time (seriously, yum), and of course I was dazzled by the eye candy! Tartan was draped everywhere, there were hundreds upon hundreds of kilts, not to mention a variety of period costumes and other fun things to wear!
This family sang an a capella rendition of the national anthem for the opening of the Highland Games.
This is the band Wicked Tinkers, they were very popular!
Some pretty outfits:
I even showed up in the most Scottish-looking outfit I could muster.
But this guy was definitely the best dressed of everyone at the whole event!
Just who are the Flight of the Conchords?
Well, either you love them, or you’ve never heard of them.
The self-proclaimed “fourth best band” from New Zealand, Flight of the Conchords are a musical comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Their music is simply awesome, and they are extremely funny as well. So good, in fact, that last year HBO gave them their own show.
Their show is fantastic! A mixture of clever comedy and fabulous music, and some great costumes as well.
Their first 12-episode season was a smashing success, and is now available on DVD. The Conchords will be back in January, 2009 for season two. I can’t wait!
In the meantime, I highly suggest you pick up their self-titled Music CD which was released last April. I love listening to all the songs from their show. They do a great job paying tribute to many styles of music and artists with refreshing creativity.
There’s a running joke about the Lord of the Rings throughout the Conchords TV episodes. Bret McKenzie actually had a small part as an elf in Lord of the Rings, and he became famous even before Flight of the Conchords became popular.
Apparently, Bret looked quite striking as an elf, and fans gave him the name, FIGWIT (Frodo is great…who is THAT?).
In their TV show, they make jokes about New Zealand, and how it struggles in the tourist industry. They frequently show Australians getting the upper hand, and have some hilarious marketing ads for New Zealand.
Their band manager, Murray, often says lamely, “New Zealand. Like… Lord of the Rings.”
Here’s their Lord of the Rings parody song. To the delight of fans everywhere, Bret dons the Elf costume that made FIGWIT so famous.
I’ll leave you with a few more Youtube clips of their songs. And once again, I encourage you all to listen to the Flight of the Conchords CD and be sure to check out their HBO show on DVD.
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