As discussed previously, my goal for Halloween this year is to finish my costume that I planned to wear last year: the Devil in a Blue Dress. Once I’d settled on which blue-clad devil woman I wanted to protray for Halloween, I had to choose the exact costume. I’m quite in love with Vogue’s current-print [...]
…keep reading…I’ve done the devil wearing a blue dress before, but it was sloppy thrift store+halloween store finds with no cohesive style thrown together for a small gathering. Looking back, there was nothing properly devilish about it (except that it was hellaciously bad dressing). Last year, I wanted to do it with élan: instead of just [...]
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Halloween is fast approaching, and I have nothing to wear. I do have a ¾ finished project from last year that I’ll be finishing up (and writing about), but in the mean time, I thought I’d share an interesting resource. In the late 1860s, Thomas Hailes Lacy, an actor and theatrical manager published two volumes [...]
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