Today I wanted to post some discount costume shops that are offering deals during the off-season:
4 Discount Costumes- These costumes have been knocked down a few bucks here and there. What I liked about this site is that the pet costumes were discounted as well.
Costume Craze -Deluxe Batman and Spiderman costumes, with about 100 bucks knocked off the price of some of the adult deluxe costumes. This one is worth checking out with sale prices of around %25 off retail.
Import Costumes -Order $85.00 worth of goods and the shipping is free.
All Costumes -Huge 50% off costume sale. I’d check this one out first for kids costumes.
Costumes for Less -These are apparently on sale,but I’m not seeing the original price listed on some of the items. The upside is that they also have props on sale.
Crazy About Costumes -This site is hard to navigate and I’m not so sure that the costumes are at a discount.
Once in a while, you come upon a website that really just makes you feel lucky that you’ve found it. For all the Google’s and Yahoo’s in the world, the best sites are still those that take some digging to find. And it’s not just the Hello Kitty icon talking.
When I stumbled upon Nanao’s Cosplay Research site, I hadn’t found much steady on cosplay outside of Cosplay.com and CosplayLab.com, which are sites that are more for user posts than a real study of the cosplay climate. These daily bites of cosplay beauty are those that Nanao has found all over the web and post to her site for us to enjoy. I recommend putting this on your feed and checkin back daily!
Some will argue that the following video doesn’t contains cosplay as much as it contains excuses for skimpy outfits. Others will tell you that Arisa Mizuhara is a wonderful cosplay talent who has turned her hobby into a lucrative career. What do you think?
Check out this feature on Nanao’s Cosplay Research featuring Arisa’s Rozen Maiden cosplay. I like the way Nanao puts it, Arisa looks much like a real-life doll. If I could pull off cute outfits like that one, I’d be in the business of having my picture taken, too.
So what do you think? Is this just a hot girl making money off of cosplaying, or is she a legitimate fan?
Mario has become Nintendo’s mascot and one of the most popular characters in video game history. This Italian plumber handyman has been fighting Bowser to save Princess Peach since he began his debut. Now you can take on the heroic adventure-loving role of Mario himself with the Mario Handyman Adult Costume from Leg Avenue. This 3 piece costume includes red hat, red shirt, and blue overals with attached yellow buttons.
You can also make a Princess Peach costume to match. Do you have any hints or tips on putting together a Mario costume? Would it be easier to grab a pair of overalls and a red shirt? What do you think?
Expert Villiage has put together a series of videos that tackle different elements of a sexy nurse costume. It would be nice to have the whole costume in one video for bookmarking purposes, but with separate videos, at least we can get an in-depth look at every step of the costume. Here is an index of the sexy nurse videos for your convenience:
This funny video from TheOffline.com features a man named Nathan who dons his buddy’s $1000 Batman costume in order to buy an ‘evil free’ cappuccino from the local Tim Horton’s drive-thru. Watch him struggle to gather his Bat-Change.
From the user: “My friend Nick bought a one thousand dollar batman suit. Until this video it had only been used once. Filmed unnecessarily in High Definition.”
It hurts watching him trying to put on and take off the rubber mask. I’m wondering who in their right mind spends $1000 on a Batman costume and only wears it once. I’d be hitting Wal-Mart in that thing for a year.
Based on the popularity of the $1000 Batman Costume video, I’m posting another caped crusader in action. From Youtube user ‘Can of Nothing’:
“Phil, of Can of Nothing fame, dons the Batman costume and takes on the city! What evil will he encounter?! No evil! Today, Batman is just your average citizen! Well…he tries to be. ”
It turns out that Batman returns renegade shopping carts to the local grocery store and poses for photos with the local madriff-topped high school girls. Who knew? This video starts out with some good costumey-fun potential, but peters out as Batman gets rejected by the ladies and is reassured by the camera man. This video is about 14 minutes and 16 seconds too long.
Threadbanger is an online authority when it comes to DIY on the web. Here, they’ve put together a run-down of the best costume how-to’s on You Tube. From Threadbanger: “There is a boat load of Halloween Tutorials floating around on the web…..you just gotta find em like we did. Here’s a few we thought needed to be seen and put to good use.”
Among those featured are a scarecrow costume, a ninja costume and a cat woman costume. What do you think of Threadbanger’s choices? Do you have a costume tutorial that you think should have been featured? Leave a comment below and link us up with your how-to’s.
A Corpse Bride costume is a great thrift store costume. Find a wedding dress at a thrift store that only costs you a few bucks and you are already on your way to a fantastic costume. You can also make fake blood by mixing corn syrup and red food coloring. For the ribs, I have heard that you can paper mache a row of ribs to put behind a hole in the costume.
Do you have any hints or tips on how to make a Corpse Bride costume? I am especially interested in how you would put together the wig, which is usually found at the costume shops as a yarn creation.
Check out this cave woman costume from DIY Fashion at About.com. This is a good last-minute costume because it doesn’t take much more than a furry sheet of fabric to complete. One thing I would add is a fake bone, which you can probably find a ta costume store. Roll the bone up in the front of your hair and use a pony tail holder or hair pins to keep it in place.
