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The IMAGINE on the back of the shirt is made up of
ironed on appliques, as is the peace sign. The beads and buttons are mostly vintage sixties (we're old LOL!)
The newsboy cap is from
e4hats
The tie dye shirt is from
Old Glory
;
The sunglasses are from a local flea market and the jeans are just regular old
Levi'sŪ
My costume was inspired by the Catwoman movie (which was waaaay better than most critics would lead you
to believe!) As you can see this doesn't involve
a tight leather catsuit though if you're looking for one for yourself you can find some links
here. I wanted to do something feline with an Egyptian theme so
I dressed as a modern interpretation of an ancient priestess of Bast the Cat Goddess. I already
had the dress which is actually sleevless; I added the the lace-and-bead triangular overlay
(taken off a thrift shop dress)
to make it look more Egyptian. I forget where I bought the waist cincher as I've had it
for years.
I made the
necklace of lapis lazuli and sterling silver ankhs, crescent moons and cats
and
the headpiece is a combination of a
Cleopatra-style dreadlocks wig and cat-ears-on-a-headband from
BuyCostumes.com
John revisited his youth as a hippie this year which doesn't
exactly match my Egyptian cat priestess idea but I found the perfect tie-in for our costumes on
eBay:
this Grateful Dead tie-dye shirt with a grinning Egyptian pharoah skull design on the front
and winged
Isis on the back.
The
wig is leftover from
his Braveheart costume
of a few years ago and we picked up the headband at a local flea market for a buck.
The glasses and peace pins are
vintage 1960s; we both grew up in that era and saved a bit of memorabilia.
But he cheated with the jeans and shoes - they
should've been bell bottoms and sandals. Ah, well. He made up for it by making
a combination ankh and peace sign out of wood; I painted it with gold paint from Michaels Crafts.
I think this nicely ties together our costumes.
Last year "Chicago" inspired us to become characters from the 1920s.
My flapper costume was totally different from the outfit
I wore years ago as all that's left of that
is the long pearls! So I wore those with
a black beaded fringed dress that I picked up at a thrift shop.
I wasn't sure about the headpiece...
Buy Costumes
had a cute headband with a big fluffy feather... but I waited too
long to order and they were sold out so I ended up making my own headband
out of stretchy black sequinned trim and a peacock feather, both from
JoAnn's.
The bob wig I wanted was sold out at
WowWigs
so I ended up with Renee Zellweger-inspired short curly hair, only
in burgundy; I wanted to be a dark gothy flapper :-) I made the long dangly earrings
out of black onyx & sterling silver beads.
"John the Bootlegger" wore a black shirt, wide pleated trousers, gray
striped suspenders, a pocket watch on a long chain,
black & white shoes & a fedora. We went to a party
at the Snapper Inn in Oakdale hosted by The Wise Man, a DJ from
the Long Island oldies station B-103 and had a blast. Shout outs
to anybody who was there, especially the other two couples dressed
like twenties gangsta couples :-)
