Costume College: Saturday Part 1

Saturday evening is the annual Costume College Gala. Everyone puts on their best costume, often a secret or themed project and saunters down the "red carpet" before the big event.

These ladies are from northern Nevada and dressed in blue and silver for the occasion.

Lauren R. of American Duchess is there in the middle with the feathers. (She posted a nice black and white picture of me on her blog.)

And here she is posing with her mom. I love that they costume together!

Lauren M. of Wearing History in gold posing with another lovely gal in 30s fabulousness.

Costume College is not just about historical costuming. This gal literally shone in her scifi/fantasy costume. The blue flames on her spine and arms glowed!

This fabulous gold dress is made from swimsuit material!

Silent film stars! (The gal on the left is wearing a long sleeved grey shirt, not just body paint!)

Feathers! Plus you can see everybody lined up to get good shots.

Now this is glamor!

Fur was a popular accessory especially for ladies dressing in vintage.

I just adored the red accents on this dress.

More red accents but Regency this time.

This lady had a gorgeous hat! And her shoes were stunning.

These four ladies went as historical Disney princesses. From left to right-Belle, Ariel, Nala, Cinderella.

There was also a photo booth area with professional lighting for photos but I haven't edited all of those yet!

Costume College: Friday

Phew! I made it home in one piece with all my luggage (but that's a story for another day). From your comments, it looks like you enjoyed your selection of period costume drama goodness. Hopefully, you still have enough in you for more costumes!

Alas, I didn't get any pictures on Thursday so we're starting on Friday. I'll scour the interweb for Thursday pics or take some outfit shots later, but for now on to Friday!

Friday was my Edwardian/Downton Abbey day! I wore my Edith's black floral blouse with a new skirt.

The skirt is Butterick 9682 from 1915 which is available from Past Patterns. It came with a hand drawn copy of the pattern and a photo copy of the original directions (which were pretty sketchy). I had some issues with the waist band-first off, my grading was off and it came out too big, and second, the closures were really complicated-6 hooks and eyes and two snaps in 3 separate closures.

But Edwardian closures are supposed to be complicated and it works so I'm cool with that. It's super fun to wear and has POCKETS!!

Plus the whole thing has almost 70 buttons on it but, thankfully, they are all decorative. I purchased them from Yummy Treasures on etsy.

And I wore my Astorias from American Duchess. I wore them all day and they were super comfy. I also got to meet Lauren R., American Duchess while I was wearing these!

Friday evening was the ice cream social so we all headed back to our rooms for a quick costume change.

I wore my Lady Mary's Garden Party dress with faux pearls, vintage crochet gloves and my Astorias again.

The lovely Ginger of Scene in the Past in a fabulous regency dress.

Beth of V is for Vintage in a darling Edwardian nautical ensemble.

The Edwardian gals together.

Lauren M. of Wearing History in an amazing plaid bustle dress. Check out her plaid matching skills!

Isn't she a vision?

And it wouldn't be Costume College without some silliness.

If you've ever wondered how to get your train to look great for a picture, this is how you do it.

I was bad and didn't actually take any pictures at the Ice Cream Social or the market place grand opening which was right afterwords but here's one of me I found on Flickr.

Promaballoona: The Reveal!

This is a pretty photo heavy post but I really couldn't decide which photos to share!

The pattern is Advance 7015 from 1955.

You can catch up on all of my progress with this dress here.

My husband is a professional photographer so I took advantage of the chance at a free professional photo session.

Woohoo for planning ahead of time!

It was also nice to do a test of my hair do for the event.

This is my jewelry model glamor shot.

First we hit up the local art museum which is housed in a gorgeous building!

There is also a fabulous set of stairs there, but there was a wedding going on so the stairs were off limits.

The whole day was crazy fun.

Oh, how I wish I'd looked even half as good at my own prom.

I really felt like a model.

Except real models are less awkward and know what to do with their bodies.

I could never figure out what to do with my hands.

Watching all of those seasons of America's Next Top Model have not really paid off.

Next, we hit the historic district downtown to pose in front of some shops and houses.

This part was more awkward for me since there were more people around.

But I wasn't the oddest person there by far so it was ok.

Really, I thought I was smiling in more of these pictures.

That's ok because I'm sure you're distracted by all of the shiney things I'm wearing.

I took the opportunity to really pump up the volume in the bling department.

Seriously, more social events should call for rhinestones.

And elbow length gloves.

So thanks Oona for having a birthday prom.

Because I now have a semi legitimate reason for a fabulous dress and lots of shiney things.

The end.