Another fun year for costumes. My daughter wanted to be Princess Celestia from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. This show is fabulous, especially for girls. I love that each character (most of whom are female) has a distinct personality and varied interests - too often there is just one girl character and she is just pink and likes pink things.
So Princess Celestia is this wise ruler/teacher, and on the show she is portrayed as a white pegasus unicorn with a rainbow mane and tail. But for some reason, the jerk in charge of making the toy version decided that she must be, for some ungodly reason, pink. My daughter has the toy, so I asked her what color she thought she should be. Pink it was.
I thought I could just find a pattern for a horse/pony costume and just add wings and a horn, but weirdly enough, there were no horse patterns in those big books at the fabric store. So this one is my own design. It is a hooded one-piece with a half zip in the front. Sewed satin ribbons into the seam at the back of the hood for the mane, then sprayed each with hairspray and curled with a curling iron. Wings are detachable, and good thing - she didn't wear them for long. She was thrilled with how this turned out, but then not so thrilled when people didn't know the character. I was happy with it though.
And how to top Elvis from last year? My little guy was a great Charlie Chaplin. It fit his personality really well as he is on the quiet side but very expressive and silly. He loved the hat and shiny shoes. I found the velvet suit at a consignment sale, but was stuck on the hat. I found a plastic, made-in-china kids' size bowler online, but I just couldn't bring myself to buy it. (Such crap!) I was about to make one from papier-mâché using a balloon sized to his head, and then I came across this shop. This hat is crochet - soft and comfy. The flower came with it and was just perfect. The mustache was a stick-on, I had extras in my pocket. He won two costume contests!
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