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

[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 :)