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Forgot to mention - you CAN dye nylon. Jacquard products makes an acid dye that works wonderfully on nylon, Dharma trading sells them. A 1/2 once container of cherry red is $4.49
Here's some pics of clothing I've dyed, all of it with the procion dyes.
It's a friggin nightmare for me right now, as I've got all this chenille to do. It's my last job of chenille, I won't take any more. The stuff is a nightmare. First, it leaves pieces all over my washer and dryer, the lint output is incredible. Secondly, because it's a heavily napped fabric, it's very hard to get a dark color. This order is for fall colors, and a deep red and a midnight blue.
To get the midnight blue, I dyed it midnight blue, then overdyed it again with a mixture of cobalt and black. It still didn't come out dark enough.
I much prefer dyeing clothing, like in these pics. I've turned down all jobs that have been come my way lately, since I want to concentrate on sewing for the holidays, and after that, I'll be back in school so I don't know if I'll keep it up or not. I'm sure I'll still do it as a hobby, though. I have too much invested in dyes, I've got about 35 different colors now.
Oh by the way - that last pic, with the mottled purple is what happens when you let the fabric be scrunched up or folded in the water and don't manipulate or stir it. I did it on purpose - I wanted that type look, but if you want even coverage like the other pics, you must move the fabric around and get all the surfaces exposed evenly. The fairy dress is dip-dyed, the botton is more saturated than the top. Hard to tell in that pic though. I sold that dress on Ebay and got a decent amount of repeat business from the customer, too. She really liked it.
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I've seen a chick that makes dye for wigs made of toyokalon or kanekalon but it's not really dye. I have a sneaking suspicion she made a solution with Sharpie marker in it. I wish I could figure out how to make that stuff because I don't really want to spend 20 bucks for a little bitty bottle, believe it or not.
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Annie, a friend of mine went to a party as the Venus de Milo. She wore a starched white cloth bunched around her waist at the top of a white skirt. For the rest, well, she wore nothing but white body paint with marble streaks brushed in. She also wore black opera gloves to cover the part of her arms that are missing in the original.
You could try this but wear a white body stocking with the marble lines painted on if you don't feel comfortable going the nude route.
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Actually, a friend of mine was the Victory of Samothrace last year - same general idea, except she wore a black cover on her head Posts: 8504 | Registered: Aug 1999
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I will be a vampire..black clothes and fang caps. Same costume for about a decade. Olivia will be a Pegasus Unicorn, Andrew an dragon, and Matthew will probably stay home and read.
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I just got delivered to me at work two packages containing large posterboards for a promotion. One is 8' x 5' and the other is about 7' x 3'. In both of them, the posters are wrapped entirely in bubblewrap. The kind with the big bubbles, about 1" diameter.
My first thought was just to take it all home and roll on it. I accidentally stepped on some while I was unwrapping things, and it sounded great. But then I though "Wait! Halloween is coming!"
So... my fall-back costume will be to either just wrap myself in it if I'm feeling lazy or actually make a dress out of it using clear tape for the seams if I'm feeling ambitious and when somebody asks me what I'm dressed as say "I'm fragile." Can anybody come up with something better? I've got yards of the stuff...
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I think you should wrap your torso in it, but leave your legs and head sticking out. Then, wear fishnet stockings and a lampshade on your head. You're the lamp from A Christmas Story!
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I just remembered a fun memory that I want to share. When Porter and I were dating, we went to a Halloween dance (I was a black kitty ). Years before he had a doctor friend that made him some very convincing fake teeth. He had, I think, three different sets. One set of fangs, one buck teeth, and I can't remember the third. So, while we were dancing, he would subtlely "switch teeth" so that every time I would look at him he had a different set on. They looked *really* convincing. He had me in fits of giggles.
Unfortunately, they got broken, and even the old pieces are gone now. Posts: 7050 | Registered: Feb 2004
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Actually, it would be funny to make a giant lampshade and wear it as a dress. Oh, man. If that weren't so expensive, I'd do it!
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I have shoes and hose like that.... hmmm.....
It wouldn't be expensive. All you need is stiff wire and fabric. You could do it for under 20 bucks from a discount fabric store.
(There is a fabulous one here that I would love to take you to and see what you come up with. It's a huge warehouse stacked to the ceiling with bolts of everything imaginable, and it's all cheap.)
But I do want to use my bubblewrap....
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I'm either not dressing up, or going as a black kitty.
Hmm some of my favorites
80's girl (ooh blacwolve you need this dress, I'll find it and give it to you sometime) purple velvet knee length dress, fish nets, red curly wig, black slingbacks.
Flapper- my mom has this gorgeous 1920's cream beaded shirt, I wore it with a white satin skirt, my hair was in a bob at the time.
mascarade dress- same top, with purple skirt, feather mask, blacwolve had a silver skirt and top, feather mask, our friend charlie wore his tux and a simple black mask, we were on each side of him.
sock hop- black felt poodle skirt (literally made from a circle of felt with a circle for my waist in the center), white sweater set, socks, hair in pony tail
ice princess (i think I was ten then)- white gymnastics outfit, white tulle tutu stitched on, white wig, plastic glittery ice cicles all over, white wand with a plastic snow flake on the end.
Miss Piggy (early elementary school)- pink tutu, pig ears, my dog was dressed as fozzy bear (he couldn't do kermit).
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There are very, very few people who would look good in a catwoman outfit. Even Halle Berry had to work out really hard to be able to pull it off.
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I will most likely do as I have for several years now. My kids will get cool costumes and I will go as "the thirty-something" mom.
Actually, my church has thought about sponsoring a party where we all dress as characters from the Bible. There are some cool women from the Old Testament I could go as. Posts: 392 | Registered: Aug 2004
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I'm thinking I'm going to me Freddy Kreuger. My cousin is a professional make-up stylist. I'm going to go all out this year.
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quote:I'm thinking I'm going to me Freddy Kreuger. My cousin is a professional make-up stylist. I'm going to go all out this year.
heh, I AM Freddy Krueger!!!
Seriously (well somewhat)... my maiden name is Krueger, i grew up on Elm Street, and all through junior high and high school that's what kids called me. Then my senior year, my brother convinced Mom to let him have turtles... red eared sliders to be specific. The first one he found had two inch claws on its front left paw - obviously, that one HAD to be Freddy. He then got three more, Barney, Betty and Wilma. Those three died within two years but Freddy was finally released into the river after almost 10 years after Steve decided he didn't have time for a turtle anymore.
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Last year, I was a French Revolutionary, except with out the stripy pants (I forget the name). Being a revolutionary is so much fun!
One of my favourite costumes was a guy who dressed up as a frog with a sign saying "kiss me, I'm a prince" around his neck. It was brilliant.
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I knew someone who dressed her four year old daughter as a stressed out Mommy.
Dressed her in old, stained clothes, used makeup to put dark circles under her eyes and strapped a baby doll to her leg.
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... Yeah, I have no life. Fun though, I can get an evil eye look like most of those characters have. (not edward, but the rest of them.)
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Here's an interesting idea for a costume. Have one person go as Peter Pan, and have another person go wearing the exact same clothes, only all in black with black body paint, follow PP around and call his or herself "Peter Pan's Shadow."
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I've had a brilliant idea, and changed plans.
I'm now going as Ozma of Oz. I got some fabulous olive green satin for the dress, with a gold underskirt, all on super sale.
What I need to find out now is how to do my makeup to look like those girls in silent movies.. I'm rather dense when it comes to makeup - most of my efforts come out looking like Captain Jack Sparrow. Any insights?
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Can anyone offer assistance on white makeup?
Was just talking to a friend who wants to go as Neil Gaiman's "Death" character. He's trying to work out the details of body-hair removal and how to apply white makeup that won't come off all over everything the rest of the evening. Any suggestions?
(And no, it's not me. If I tried Death would look pregnant, which is an interesting thought all by itself.)
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