I shop at Target a lot, but I don't venture into the clothing section too often as I don't like to add to my bill (hello, self control?). When I do check from time to time, I fell in love with a piece. This black knit dress from the Who What Wear collection really caught my attention (plus size available too!) and I'm so glad I made the purchase.
Besides the fun, dramatic bell flared sleeves, the stretch knit is so comfortable and keeps a nice shape while it's on. I've already worn and washed the dress twice and it is still perfect! It's a great travel knit too, just fold and roll. Easy dress to style a variety of ways, I just have to figure out some ways to layer so I'm not covering up the sleeves, but the dress also looks amazing with my velvet coat.......
Wearing: black velvet beret (vintage, via estate sale), velvet coat (vintage, via eBay), dress (Target), cross scarf (gift), winklepickers (thrifted, from Julie Ann)
Do you find pieces from Target (or other department stores) that you love?
First "costume" was for a surprise Halloween birthday party for our dear friend Casey. It was the first weekend of October and I didn't have any costumes in mind, but Bryan (Casey's boyfriend) mentioned either a costume for capes/cloaks for the party, so it gave me a chance to wear this tulle cape I got on Halloween clearance last year. I also wanted a new wig and I asked my friend Jodee to go wig shopping with me (which inspired our 'wig of the month' club idea) and I came home with this gorgeous red wig.
I've been missing my fiery red hair, so this wig is appeasing my appetite for hair change....which no change is going to happen. Hahaha!
A nun has been a default costume for me over the past few years, but it evolves and changes. I received this dress along with a vast collection of vintage goth clothing from a lovely reader. Mary has been so incredibly generous and with each box she's sends me, it brings back many memories of clothing brands that I would lust over as a teen into a young 20 something year old. I squealed out loud when I took out this Omen brand dress. If I remember correctly, Omen was a German clothing brand and they made a lot of screen printed cotton bondage dresses and tops. Nowadays you see edgy screen printed garments everywhere you turn, but Omen was unique at the time and having a anti-religious/satanic theme to the clothing was really quite shocking.
Nun habit was $5.99 ebay find, collar and boots from my own closet. Side note about the collar: Several years ago my Mother gave me some money for my birthday and told me to pick something out. Like she always does, my Mother asked me what I bought myself with the birthday money. I told her I bought a chain collar and I laughed when she was not surprised at all. Hahaha!!!
The nun costume was for Bryan's goth dance night (Friday) and I thought it was also the same night as another Halloween event, but I got the dates mixed up. Turns out the other Halloween event was the next day, so I needed another costume! I dug around in the costume boxes and got Derek's Adam Ant Highway Dandy Man costume parts together and came up with the idea of dressing like 80s Boy George. Two 80s music icons? Together? HELL YES!!!! I ran out and grabbed some white pants from the thrift store, gave them a quick wash and put together the remaining costume parts from my closet. I guess it's a good thing I love large pattern oversize shirts and oversize sweaters. Hahahaa!!! I didn't get great photos, but I did have fun making this little video.
The event was a blast, it was a bunch of local bands/musicians covering bands like; The Cure, Motorhead, etc. I was a little overwhelmed as to how many people LOVED my costume and gave me hugs, high fives, shook my hand and took photos. Apparently Boy George makes a lot of people happy and I got a kick out of knowing how many people love the 80s!
Do you use items from your own closet to create costumes?
Derek likes to call the month of November, "Novemberween", so with that in mind I'm still catching up with things that happened in October including some outfits. October was a weird weather month, it was unseasonably warm and then got cooler and than warm again. I'm happy to report that the weather is currently 39 degrees as I type this post and I'm happy that it is sweater weather!
Outfit one was on a day that I over dressed slightly and was warm in a little black dress (thrift find) and leggings (Skinny Puppy website) and black flats. I was sick of wearing my summer dresses and just suffered. Hahahaha!
Outfit two was another 'I'm sweating, but dealing with it', outfit that I threw together and was quite pleased when I looked in the mirror. I'm wearing a tank dress (H&M), lightweight knit sweater (thrift find), Western belt, slouch socks with my cowbot boots. Once again I'm sooooo happy I bought this tank dress as it's a wonderful layering piece.
Outfit three was worn on a cooler day in October. I went to a local supermarket and was told, "I like your Halloween costume", and to which I replied, "This is my normal clothing". The look on the women's face was priceless. Any who, I'm wearing a t-shirt my friend James made, paired with stretch skirt/leggings combo and a fuzzy cardigan sweater (thrift find). The socks are a Halloween buy from this year (Target) and the scarf was a gift from a friend.
Did anyone think your normal clothing was a Halloween costume? Hahaha!
Hello friends! Once again I'm sorry about the confusion with my blog post about a new blog, the Kitschy Coffin has been deleted and I'm now coffinkitsch.blogspot.com. Going to a blogspot will completely fuck all my links up on my Google images as well as other links on other sites, but oh well. I'm still at Coffin Kitsch!!! Any who, onto playing Halloween catch up!
Derek and I decided on a hellish theme Halloween with our costumes as well as some of our decorations for the bar area of our home. I am on a personal mission to bring back the devil as I believe there are not enough devil's in modern Halloween decor! What's up with that?! Devils are so cute! Hehehe!
So, we came up with an 'Aloha from Hell-waii' theme. Just fun and punny and I got to order myself a wonderful black beehive wig (of my dreams) from Paramount Wigs on etsy and added some red horn hair clips (via ebay) and red hibiscus flowers that I already owned. The dress is from my own closet and Derek painted the red flames with acrylic paint. I added some red satin gloves, red flower lei and some bamboo hoop earrings and Voila! a 60s devil gal!
I love this wig sooo much!
Derek reused an Elvis costume he bought years ago, painted his face red, added some horns and I sculpted his long hair into a pompadour. Add some plastic floral lei's and white creeper shoes and you've got Hellvis! If you look at the first picture I posted, next to the sign is a Hellvis statue that is one of Derek's creations. He used to make his living sculpting and producing satirical Elvis busts under the name, Suffering from Elvis Disease. He still makes the busts from time to time, yet the one that started it all was the original Hellvis.
And I just can't forget to include a photo of Jodee in her deviled egg costume holding the deviled eggs she brought to the party. She looks so darn cute and I love that she drew on a little mustache!
PS-Sorry the photos are dark and red, we had a lot of red lights on, because...well, it's Hell. Hahaha!
Hey readers, disregard my previous (now deleted) post about the new blog. I figured out that I can turn my blog back into a blogpost, so I'm not www.coffinkitsch.blogspot.com. The only bummer is that all my google searching and images will come up with a 404 error and not redirect my posts to the new web address. Oh well, but I figured out I can stay here at Coffin Kitsch! Sorry about the confusion, I'm not good at interneting sometimes. LOL!!!!
