Category Archives: Cosp;ay / Costuming

Interesting costuming exhibit at the McCord

The McCord Museum in Montreal has an exhibition on costume balls that might interest many SFF fans.

McCord Stewart Museum
690 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, (Quebec) H3A 1E

“Over 40 dazzling outfits worn will be on display as well as photographs of guests in costume, souvenir publications and more —that capture the spirit and prestige of these grand events. This exhibition and the accompanying publication represent the culmination of a research effort which draws on the quintessential strengths of the McCord Stewart Museum’s rich collections. Many remarkable discoveries, unveiled to the public for the first time.”

Masquerade/Cosplay at ConAdian

From Kevin Standlee, video of the masquerade at ConAdian, the World Con in Winnipeg which many MonSFFen attended.  It was recorded by Sylvain St-Pierre.  –CPL


Lisa Hayes found the VHS video tape of the 1994 Worldcon Masquerade buried in one of my many boxes, digitized it, and I’ve uploaded it to the Worldcon Events YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiHBpVlagEk&pp=sAQA

Unfortunately, the last part of the credits didn’t make it onto the 2 hour VHS tape. Also, due to YouTube copyright reasons, there is at least one entry that has its sound muted.

Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in this piece of Worldcon and costuming history.

Kevin

 

Pictures of the World Con Masquerade

Photos of the Wold Con 76 masquerade can be found here. 

A few are outstanding, but on the whole not quite up to the costumes I saw at the first World cons I attended. Of course, seen out of context as these photos are, we don’t get the whole picture. A joke, an exceptional skit or presentation, can give a whole new shine to an ordinary costume.

 

The Futuristicostume” worn by Forry Ackerman at the first Worldcon

ORIGIN STORY. The International Costumers Guild revisits “The Futuristicostume” worn by Forry Ackerman at the first Worldcon in 1939.

We started our research by going back to the beginning, back to the first convention costumers Forrest J Ackerman and Myrtle Douglas.

Everyone is familiar with their photos. Most know the how and the why of their costumes. But how were they made? What color were they? We now have some answers and some theories along with new, never seen photos.

We now know his “futuristicostume” still partially exists. Most of the cape probably has not survived, but the pants and shirt are in the hands of a private collector. The shirt appears to be pale gold. As you can tell even in the black and white photos on line, the pants are most likely WWI military surplus. The most interesting story is about the cape. We found 2 references describing it as green. New photos from Ackerman’s personal collection recently came to light, so we snapped them up for the Archives. We understand that the cape he is wearing in them is a recreation, but it would appear to verify our references. However, in the book “House of Ackerman: A Photographic Tour of the Legendary Ackermansion”, by Al Astrella, James Greene and John Landis, there’s a color photo of what’s left of the cape, where it appears to be an antique gold. We are 90% certain we know the reason why. The clue was found in analyzing Myrtle’s costume…

Read more

Best cosplay/hallcostume ever?

http://www.businessinsider.com/mystique-cosplay-new-york-comic-con-nycc-2016-10

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