pictures of costumes

[dragonlady7]

If the image doesn't work, click the link. Actually, click the link anyway to get a sense of the e:strip zeitgeist... And more photos of the costumes.
That's an entry with photos from the party I attended on Saturday night after the roller derby party.
I really really really had not realized my costume was quite so... well, so.
Z's costume:
He is dressed as Potato Masher, a fictional member of the Tank Girls, that team in Ontario we had such an awful time against in July. They had a member called Cheese Grater who was particularly odd-- she carried around a pair of cheesegraters she banged together and made a racket with, as if this would be something that would intimidate her opponents or lend strength to her teammates, though none of us could really figure out what she meant by it.
So Z skated around with a potato masher in his hand all evening, and kept poking me with it, whereupon I would either pretend to threaten to throw him on the floor, or I would just skate away.
I wore my skates all night, but he changed out of his. The upshot was that neither of our costumes really made sense; mine wasn't really about the skates, while his was. Whatever!

It was a lot of fun and Potato Masher got a lot of laughs, while the Titsmas Fairy (my costume) got a lot of stares and comments.
I went out last night too, to see Nosferatu with live musical accompaniment at the most ornate and beautiful old theatre downtown-- it opened as a movie theatre in the 20s, the same year as Nosferatu's US release. And I dressed up for that as well, in a floor-length slinky black evening dress and an equally-long black wool cloak my mom made me years ago that I've worn maybe three times ever. I thought, if one cannot wear a floor-length wool cloak to see a silent film about vampires, when can one wear one?
I got a lot of stares last night too, but they were almost all either amused or approving.

Sadly no images exist of my outfit last night. But that's probably OK. Just imagine it: Floor length black.
Z wore a suit, a dark gray suit, just so he wouldn't look so out-of-place beside me and also because he too felt that one should Dress for the Theatre.

I need more costumes, though. I really want a proper Victorian costume with fancy hairpieces and all. And I want a decent 40s outfit including a coat and a hat. And I want a full Colonial-era outfit-- that was my first cosplay, dressing in Rev War gear borrowed from my mom, and it suited me better than anything I'd ever worn and was probably the first time, post-puberty, I'd ever thought my own body was something worth decorating.

Comments

[spacellama.livejournal.com]

Les costumes are excellent. Very creative to threaten one with a potato masher! (Oh, and am having bustier envy.)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

It's a nice Renn Faire corset I got in college, and it's really supposed to actually contain my boobs rather than having them fall out of it like that. I need one that kind of... I don't spill out of quite so much. I don't know where to get one. :(

It's really nice though because it's sprung-steel-boned, and bulletproof.

[okk-t-gain.livejournal.com]

Dude, that looks like so much fun! I *LOVE* the first pic of you with your cup nestled in your boobage. Definitely one for the grandkids. :D