Costuming for Nerds, Part 3

[matril]

Luke's first Halloween marked what is probably our most ordinary set of costumes, so I'll cover those quickly, then move on to the next year.

Before we'd given too much thought to Halloween costumes in 2003, my mother-in-law got a fuzzy little duck costume for Luke. And we thought, hey, why not keep it simple and do farm animals? So I made a bunch of black patches to stick on white clothes, put my hair up into horns and painted my nose. Mark bought a pig mask and wore pink.

Luke has the expected "What is this thing on my head??" look. He fell asleep in his dad's arms partway through trick-or-treating. Pretty typical first Halloween, but we had fun. And look at our adorable tails.



Oh, whoops. Didn't quite get all my tail in the shot, but there was a black tassel at the end, trust me. Well, on to the next year.

By October of 2004 we were filled with eager anticipation for the release of Episode III in May 2005. We planned to attend the midnight showing in full costume, and decided we might as well get those costumes ready a few months early. Luke would, of course, be Luke, with the dark clothes of Return of the Jedi - the least complicated of his outfits, you see. We pinned a little gray triangle to simulate the collar and gave him a lightsaber. Mark and I, meanwhile, would be his parents. He already had a dark robe, so we found a dark red shirt as a cheap alternative to the deep brown leather of Anakin's Jedi uniform. And another lightsaber. And I dressed in Padmé's white arena jumpsuit, because let's face it - any of her other outfits were far beyond my resources and capabilities. White shirt and pants, silver cuffs and rather convincing belt from the costume store.


From our church's trunk-or-treat. We filled out the family tree with our Leia and Han cardboard cutouts. I wish I could have gotten some boots, and I could never get the blanket to hang quite right like Padmé's shawl, but the general effect was decent. And Luke sure loved that lightsaber.


I was about three months pregnant with Emma. That May, two weeks after she was born, we put her in a little white dress, stuck two balls of yarn on a hat, and brought her to the movie premiere as baby Leia.



We took a break from Star Wars costumes for ten years. But there was plenty of nerdiness in between.

Comments

[sonetka.livejournal.com]

These are all good but the little Leia hat with the buns absolutely slayed. I'll bet the other people in the theater loved it (and really, if you're going to bring a baby to a movie, that's a perfect age because they can sleep through ANYTHING and look adorable doing it! This is how I ended up taking Veronica to see "Coraline" when she was 8 weeks old, and she ended up being by far the best behaved child in the theater :)).

[matril.livejournal.com]

So true! Emma was easy, either sleeping or nursing through the whole thing. Luke...was a little less easy. He loved the opening action sequence, but all the talking parts were a bit much for him. (Now he does great in the movie theater, interestingly enough - just plop him down with a bucket full of popcorn, and he's good.)