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[ricevermicelli]

Today, I was hit up to make pageant costumes.

So not happening. I'll bring extra batteries and hairpins though.

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[graceo.livejournal.com]

I volunteered to try to make some pageant costumes. I also was physically present and actually wrote down my name and email for the nice lady offering to assemble angel costumes with a glue gun if need be. I'm not sure how you got in to that email loop. Pageants call for desperate measures?

[beth_leonard]

Pageants call for desperate measures?

Sufficiently cool costumes can make up for an amazing lack of talent.

At my youngest's "children dancing around the world" holiday pageant this year, the dancing, singing, and choreography was the worst I have seen in in 6 consecutive years of going to pre-school holiday performances. The amazingly cool costumes seem to have made up for it however, because I overheard several parents remark that it was the best they've ever seen.

--Beth

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

Wow. Good call. Even just buying basic clothing to supplement a costume can be a nightmare; nobody's tried asking me to make anything yet.

Unless you count the current request that I provide D with a few seamstress-appropriate accessories. This is a simple raiding of my sewing desk for supplies, no assembly required -- way easier than last year's request that I find her a light blue shirt. The fashion industry is out to get us all, I swear.

Newt

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

The costumes are pretty simple - basically trapezoidal dresses, sized to fit over an angel's street clothes, with tinsel around the neckline. Hotspur is really excited by hers.

Daniel won't let me touch the sewing machines. I'm a disaster with them.

[blk]

In our house, I like to say that we tend to follow traditional gender roles on things like that: y'know, I do the laundry, he works the loud machinery, like sewing machines and the ice cream maker.

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

Our house too. Power tools are Drew's department. The sewing machine is definitely a power tool. :)

[zuleikhajami.livejournal.com]

Oh, THAT kind of pageant. I thought someone wanted you to make them a toddlers-and-tiara type pageant dress for their child, which seemed so odd.

[quueer.livejournal.com]

How is there a congregational church in New England that doesn't already have 2.2 million angel costumes floating around the basement? We're freaking Unitarians and when I counted last year we had over 30 angel costumes, from infant up through some year when they apparently made Hagrid play an angel (only reason I can think of for an angel costume that big).

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

They wear out after 50 or 60 years.