Category: Costume Con

Thanks so much to everyone who voted in my Dorky Poll — it looks like either the black & white natural form or the red & white early bustle. I probably won’t know til I’m there which I’m going to wear, but at least you’ve helped me narrow it down!

Now I just have to pack everything – good lord. Luckily I don’t really have any outstanding sewing that needs doing before I go — the only thing I had was to finish trimming my 1780s capote, but I did that in a fit of productivity last week (pictures to be taken this weekend).

Here’s my costume plan, we’ll see how this works out:

Friday day: modern wear (ICG meeting at 9am!)
Friday Night Social: totally non-theme appropriate 1780s robe a l’anglaise with huge hair and huge hat.
Saturday day/GBACG luncheon: Wings of the Dove dress
Saturday eve (scifi masquerade): either black & white natural form or red & white early bustle, depending on which is worn Sun. night
Sunday day: MAYBE 1909 afternoon dress if there’s room in the suitcase; otherwise modern wear
Sunday night: see Sat. night
Monday: modern wear

Now I have to start hauling out suitcases to see what’s going to fit…

Good lord, Costume Con is in less than two weeks. I’m taking votes as to what I should wear – I’ll be there for three days, plus there’s the Friday Night Social (the theme is Egyptian or deco, for which I have nothing appropriate) plus the two masquerades. I’m not going to be entering either masquerade, as it turns out, but I do need something fabulous to wear to the historical masquerade for reasons which I can’t yet make public. Which of my completed outfits is the most fabulous? Oh dear, off to examine my suitcase options…

Okay kids, so I’m planning to go Costume Con for the very first time this year. It will be, in fact, my very first con (unless you count BayCon last year, when all I did was docent an exhibit and go to the Regency dancing). And it will, of course, be my very first masquerade, at which my goal is simply to not make an a** of myself. To that end, does anyone have any advice to a newbie masquerade-er? What do I need to know? What do you wish you had known your first time?