Random wonderfulness at Costume Con

This was one of my favorite entries called Miss OZ Pageant.  Each of the eleven members of this group made an 18th Century costume depicting a character or thing from the Oz story.
Read the Threads of Life Blog to find out more.

I was told somewhere on the web are official/good photos of the costumes from all the competitions, but I haven't been able to find them.  So, you are going to have to put up with the photos I was able to snap for myself.  And, please, if you know where to find the good photos leave a comment below!

This was a very unusual costume of a cottage I saw on Friday night in the bar. It is a costume of a Russian folk tale, Hut of Baba Yaga (thank you Tarisa!) AND I'm not quite sure how she sat down in this.

Friday night I judged the Single Pattern Competition.  Two Simplicity patterns were chosen (a mermaid costume and my old werewolf costume) and since I was judging was only able to take 2 photos.  boo hoo
People are supposed to use these patterns as a starting point to make whatever they want, but the pattern should still be recognizable.
To the left is a very blurry photo of a werewolf Red Hat Society Lady.  Really well done! 
Please let me know if a better photo can be found, I love this! There is another costume I loved that was a ghostly fairy.  I want to find a photo of that, too.

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This is my other photo from the Single pattern competition.  She won "best literal interpretation".  Can you see ... she actually USED the Simplicity pattern!

This is my only photo from the Future Fashion Show.  I moderated the Simplicity Fashion show during the judges deliberation for this competition, so couldn't take photos.  But this entry I saw before hand was made by my friend Janet Prey, a beautifully done realization of a fantasy fashion drawing by someone else.  This is very interesting competition.  Many months before Costume Con, people submit artwork of totally wild and fantasy garments, then someone completely different makes it up.

This costume made by Mary Parulski and won best workmanship at the Historical competition.  It was made with Martha McCain's first Civil War pattern with really striking fabric choices.  Let's hope Simplicity can re-release it.

Also from the Historical competition was this group of Pan Am stewardesses.  They won for best research. They made every piece of their costumes, except for the shoes.  This included girdles and 1960's bullet bras!

Best in Show for the Historical competition was this statue of Athena.  She LOOKED like the statue.  I spoke with her the day after and found out this costume took three years to make ... truly breath taking.


I just found a blog with photos of hall costumes I never even saw.  Click this to see them.

This was one of my favorite costume that won best in category as a novice at the Sci Fi competition. Her name is Laurie and she has a blog with MORE photos from Toronto. She has a long explanation of the OZ Pageant with many more photos.


This Costume Con had almost three times as many attendees than there usually is and I didn't get to the Sci Fi competition early enough and got a terrible seat, so far in the back of the room I couldn't take any photos. So again, I'm hoping to find more on line as people have time to post them.


There is still more to tell ... hope I can find more for you ...