Help Needed!
Oct. 3rd, 2011 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
SO!
We are going to a Geeky Halloween party this year, and
roho is already picking out his costume which leaves me going, 'uh.. shit.'
I have not dressed up for Halloween, um.. EVER, and a quick surf through costume shops that carry my size (yay fat butt) showed... stuff that looks great on skinny chicks but not so much on larger women, and stuff that would be okay, but looks cheaply made and has triple digit prices.
I do not currently have a working sewing machine, I do have a black underbust bodice and peasant shirt, so worst case I can buy a nice scarf and wrap it around my waist, wear the bodice and shirt with a skirt, but I'd like to avoid the renfaire look if at all possible, or at least put a little more effort into it.
SO! Friends! Loved ones! Suggestions? Most of you know what I look like irl.
<3!
-L
We are going to a Geeky Halloween party this year, and
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I have not dressed up for Halloween, um.. EVER, and a quick surf through costume shops that carry my size (yay fat butt) showed... stuff that looks great on skinny chicks but not so much on larger women, and stuff that would be okay, but looks cheaply made and has triple digit prices.
I do not currently have a working sewing machine, I do have a black underbust bodice and peasant shirt, so worst case I can buy a nice scarf and wrap it around my waist, wear the bodice and shirt with a skirt, but I'd like to avoid the renfaire look if at all possible, or at least put a little more effort into it.
SO! Friends! Loved ones! Suggestions? Most of you know what I look like irl.
<3!
-L
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Date: 2011-10-03 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-03 02:57 pm (UTC)I was pointed to some other resources, I'm going to look around this week and see what I can find, although you -do- have more space for working, even with the newest addition. :D
So we can talk! Thank you! :) Bren may need some assistance with his plans too, we'll plot. <3
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Date: 2011-10-03 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-03 03:28 pm (UTC)He wanted to go as Gordon Freeman from Half Life; that'll probably be next year's costume, gives us time to build it. :)
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Date: 2011-10-03 06:45 pm (UTC)No, that's not a crack about weight, the class is named that! The guy is hilariously goofy and I've never played the game. You need a red shirt, a brown-gray pullover vest, gray pants, then you can improvise an ammo belt with a bunch of toilet paper rolls on a strap of some kind, put twists of orange construction paper in the tips of the rolls to make 'em bullets, and finally get a big Nerf(tm) gun.
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Date: 2011-10-03 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-03 07:01 pm (UTC)The Heavy 'guest-stars' in it too.
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Date: 2011-10-03 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-03 06:17 pm (UTC)Ummmm..... geeky, you say. Hm. Can't really think of anything ATM :(
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Date: 2011-10-03 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-04 07:36 pm (UTC)