Costume News Archive - 30-Nov-2007
WEST WHITTIER - Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a staffer from Pioneer High School, dressed up in a superhero costume!
He's cuter than most ? well, actually, all ? turkeys. He's also, technically, not a turkey. He's a kid from Garden Grove named Tyler Lewis . Tyler's grandmother, Dawn White (aka "Grandma") is the maker of the costume and this is her take on making the turkey costume - "I cut the platter out of poster board and decorated it to resemble a platter.
One of the important characters and leading model Sahil Singh of fantasy costume drama Chandramukhi is cooling his heels in a hospital room.
A brawl broke out in a Las Vegas bar this week when a short person dressed in an Oompa Loompa costume took offense at being called a midget. Wee Matt and another short person hired as entertainment were turfed from the Hogs and Heifers Saloon Monday after...
Let the festivities begin... Tonight is the Herald staff Christmas party. And as I frantically search Auckland for a suitable costume (I am going as Jem from Jem and the Holograms ), I thought it an apt time to discuss work dos - and share some cautionary tales.
A brawl broke out in a Las Vegas bar this week when a short person dressed in an Oompa Loompa costume took offense at being called a midget.
Fran Gratt, principal of Wolford Elementary School, or ?The Frog Princess,? proudly displays her frog costume Wednesday afternoon. Gratt fulfilled her promise to the students to dress like a frog if they exceeded their goal of $200 raised for the United Way campaign.
FOR CHILDREN.
In opera, masked costume balls are never a good omen. Whenever the masks come on, somebody dies. It happens in Mozart's "Don Giovanni;" it happens in Gounod's "Romeo and Juliette." But there's no more obvious example of this operatic surety than "Un Ballo in Maschera" ("A Masked Ball"), Giuseppe Verdi's passionate (and appropriately titled) musical tale of chaste love, consuming jealousy, vile ...
T his season costume jewelry just might be the smartest gift. With fashion houses such as Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior turning out sophisticated designs ? some of which cost as much as the real thing ? the stigma of fake jewelry is gone. Today it?s not uncommon to see the most chic women mixing fine and faux in the same outfit.
