One of the most popular costumes here on The Year of Halloween comes from this summer’s Thinking Costume: Medusa post. The Medusa of myth was a terrifying creature, crowned with a writhing, hissing mass of snakes and capable of turning all who… Read More ›
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Thinking Costume: The Spider Queen
Fashion is a celebration of drama, an elevation of daily dress to art, each garment weaving meaning into an ensemble to convey a story to its viewer. While our regular wardrobe may not allow such exercises in dramatic excess, Halloween… Read More ›
Thinking Costume: Medusa
This, our first Thinking Costume post of 2011, is dedicated to the mythical character of Medusa. Medusa brings together my two of my three favorite types of costumes: (1) the use of a complex and interesting character and (2) a… Read More ›