Costume season!

[furtech]

My pony-for-Christmas, favorite time of the year! The weather turns crisp and cool (somewhere, anyway) and leaves fall and blow away. Halloween. The holiday I enjoy most and usually end up not doing anything about.

One thing I look forward to is It's A Wrap annual costume selection. The store buys wardrobe from TV shows and films and sells them as used clothing. You can often ID the show it's from by the tags-- so some people come there to get cheap souvineers from films and shows they're fans of. Last year, for instance, there was a ton of "Van Helsing" peasant wardrobe pieces. The really good stuff they apparently auction (there's a huge Star Trek auction going on presently).

One neat piece I saw this year was this:



It's the Armadillo mascot from Necessary Roughness (a sports comedy starring Sinbad and Scott Bakula-- actually decent comedy). Unfortunately, it was obviously stored in a storage shed for several years, because the foam is all rotten and flaking...Carrying it down the stairs would be risky. I wish they'd put this up a few years ago-- it's a pretty neat costume/design.

For you Star Wars fans out there: they also have a lot of "peasant" wear from feature films and New Trek that would make excellent Jedi base-costumes. While they are peasant gear, some of them have some neat finishing to them. Some of the pieces may also be primative Trek alien garb-- it look like stuff they're auctioning off right now.

Here's It's a Wrap's Homepage , where you can find links to their auctions, etc.

Comments

[redstorm.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds like a neat place, wish there was something like that up near me.
What does the peasant garb go for?

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I think I took you there! It's near the Wilson's outlet.

The peasant garb was going for between $15 and $80, depending on how elaborate and what it was made of (leather long-coats were on the high end; broadcloth nightshirts at the lower end).

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

Small world - I almost bought that Armadillo mascot right after shooting for Necessary Roughness finished up; they were auctioning off as much stuff in Denton (Texas) as they could.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

What kept you from buying it? Too bad-- if you had gotten it back then, it might have been stored better and still be viable. What in the world were you doing in Denton, TX?

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

Too little disposable cash - they wanted a minimum bid of $2K, and I couldn't justify spending that much.

I was living & working in Denton back then :)

[vulpesrex.livejournal.com]

I used to have this Friday ritual of having a Lasagna with a roastbeef & swiss sandwich at Pinoccio's/Monte Carlo Deli, just down the street. This would be followed by a stroll to either It's A Wrap in one direction, or It's A Zoo! In the other.

Saturday was for Chili John's, up on Burbank Blvd.

I am already missing all 4 places, though the high-end plush animal store closed a couple years ago, with no explanation; I noticed that they finally took down the sign about July or so.

I also miss all the used book stores that were in Burbank, either on San Fernando, or along Magnolia.

At least, I'm now up where October -does- mean snap in the air, and pumpkins are local, not imported. Folks in this region really go gah-gah for Holloween, surprising considering the high concentration of conservative evangelical christians in the region.