Theme Me: Costume, Fancy Dress & Theme Inspiration

Day 208: Wonder Woman

On January 21 2011 NBC announced that they had ordered a pilot of Wonder Woman, after shooting a pilot and much speculation NBC announced in May that it would not be picking the project up for a series. This seems to happen a lot with the Wonder Woman franchise *cough* Joss Whedon movie. In the hopes that Wonder…

Day 207: Underworld

Underworld Awakening was released on January 19 last year. For some reason when I was doing my planning for the week I had this down as a release date of January 20 (today). A day late or not, Underworld is my theme for today and I have decided to dress up as Kate Beckinsale’s character Selene. Photo…

Day 206: Katey Sagal

January 19 is Katey Sagal’s birthday. I know Katey best for her role as Peggy in Married with Children, but thought that a Leela costume would be funnier so went with that. Hopefully I was right, if not, feel free to voice your opinions in the comment section below. Photo credit: Billy Rubin …

Day 205: Winnie the Pooh

January 18 is Winnie the Pooh day as this is the day A.A. Milne’s, the creater, was born in 1882. With the theme of Winnie the Pooh I’ve decided to dress up as Owl…mostly because I already had an owl onesie. Don’t worry, the costume Gods punished me by making this day the hottest day in…

Day 204: Jim Carrey

January 17 is Jim Carrey’s birthday so today I bring you one of my favourite characters of his – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. More than that, I have decided to re-create Ace in character from the first film where he pretends to be mentally insane. The hardest bit was trying to re-create his hairstyle with…

Day 203: John Carpenter

January 16 is John Carpenter’s birthday. As a child I grew up watching (and re-watching) John Carpenter films, namely Big Trouble in Little China. When my brothers and I would have to hang up the washing, at the end when the basket was empty, one of us would ALWAYS put the basket on top of…

Day 202: Humanitarian Day

January 15 is one of three emancipation days of respect which honours the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. So today rather than dress as Martin Luther King, I wouldn’t do it justice, I’ve decided to dress up as another great celebrity humanitarian – Princess Diana. I have chosen to dress as Diana in what was…

Day 201: Tennis

The Australian Open beings today, so I thought I would take on a tennis themed day and dress as the infamous John McEnroe. Why you ask? His afro would make him the funniest tennis player to dress up as, that’s why. And yes, I know that I’m using a badminton racket, not a tennis for this costume,…

Day 200: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

January 13 is Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ birthday. Growing up I can honestly say that no female character on television effected my personality as much as Elaine from Seinfeld did, so of course that is who I have decided to dress up as today. To this day I am still in awe of how someone could choreograph a dance…

Day 199: Pippi Longstocking

Today I take on another users suggestion; rhiannac xxxx suggested that I take on the theme of Pippi Longstocking. As many would know the crux of this outfit is in Pippi’s red hair, to achieve the ‘stick out’ angle of the ponytails, I wrapped the hair around bent coat-hanger wire. Photo credit: Billy Rubin…