It's a mere eight days until Halloween and already I've got a carved pumpkin and made headway into this year's costume. I still need to make something with pumpkin in it, likely bread or ice cream, but I'd say I'm still off to an excellent start.
After last year's success with the last-minute Bob Ross costume I wanted to come up with another semi-obscure but still recognizable character. Sadly that didn't pan out but I think I've chosen a solid alternative. More than once I've been told I resemble Bill Hader so I decided I would try my hand at Stefon this year. Stefon is a character Bill played on SNL for about five years as part of the Weekend Update with Seth Meyers.
The costume itself isn't complex with only three elements to it--a wig, shirt, and rings. However, the shirt is very specific in it's style and hard to duplicate. The shirt is an Ed Hardy, which I haven't been able to find anywhere online. That's probably for the best as similar shirts run over $100 a pop. It's a long sleeved t-shirt (oxymoron?) where the arms are a different style from the body of the shirt.
Thankfully I found a normal Ed Hardy t-shirt in the right color on Ebay for about $15 and some solid red long sleeved shirts at a thrift store that I can wear underneath. I haven't decided if I'll try to manually modify the arms to match the style on Stefon's shirt or just leave it as is. We'll see.
The wig was ordered from Amazon this morning, so the only piece left to obtain are the rings for my fingers which I can find at one of those trendy, young people knicknack stores. And then it's on to watching clips from SNL to mimic the way Stefon talks. Oh, and I should probably find some Halloween parties to go to. :D
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