I love fancy dress parties. I really do. So when a friend of mine invited me to a Halloween party I immediately started planning my outfit and I knew exactly what I wanted to be for Halloween - the scariest stuff of nightmares: a Handmaid.
I bought the fabric and then... I did absolutely nothing. Well, not entirely true I suppose since I procrastinated the everloving fuck out of that poor costume. A week before the party I still had done nothing with my costume, but had a nice angry ulcer coming along. Awesome. In pain I started making my outfit and realised again just how quick I can be under a certain amount of pressure. Some mistakes were made with the dress but after correcting them I was truly pleased with how it turned out:
The Wings had me concerned though. I had no clue how to make them look as good as they do in the tv show but I wanted them as similar as possible. I YouTube'd a few truly awful videos containing a lot of hot glue and then decided to just dissect some pictures of the costumes and let my imagination do the rest. As a result I never used any glue for my wings but they look great and are easy to slip on and off the cap I wear underneath. For next time I think I'll have to use something stiffer for structural lining material...
Having finished the last stitches and ironed out the last creases the same day as I was going to the party I'd have to call it a success nonetheless! Later in the day I met up with my beautiful friends:
We played some board games and had a lot of fun. Pictured below is me not being the werewolf in One Night Ultimate Werewolf:
I need more fancy dress parties. Give me fancy dress parties. I'm an adult. I promise.
Now give me fancy dress parties.
