Fantasy Island: Tattoo's "Too-Small" Dress

I talked to some people the other night about my TV Schtick, and for ONCE, I took a suggestion of a character I should look to!

I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner.  Tattoo is totally a character that I would get excited about.  He's small and cute (just like me?!) and people love him.  Well, most people do, anyway.  Right?

Raine is so very happy to wear a too-small jacket over a too-small dress with a GIANT bow to represent Tattoo's little white tuxedo with a bow tie.

The bow might be too giant, but I decided to go big or not go at all!

Halloween Special: The Wild West Saloon Girl

For my next installment of re-imagining overused Halloween costumes, I choose "The Saloon/Can-Can Girl".

Can-Can chic never really got off the ground as some expected with the release of Moulin Rouge in the early 2000's, but people have been dressing as the Saloon Girl for ages before that on Halloween.  I can imagine the allure is surely the fun of wearing a LOT of makeup, feathers in your hair, and of course, the one socially acceptable excuse to lift your skirt over your head over and over again throughout the evening.

 

Trina is wearing a (perhaps unnecessarily full) double-plus circle skirt (I wanted to play with fold and waves, but it came out a little too wavy), with a halter top that gathers into the choker neckband with pleats, and a cropped faux double-breasted bolero with invisible shoulder pads.  See how complicated and impressive I made it sound?

Do notice as well that each flower was pressed onto the cloth individually.  I don't know how many flowers there are on there, but undoubtedly this would have been a very expensive project just because of that if those flowers weren't a surprise find at the bottom of a box of fabric that I bought from a garage sale.  I think I still I have around 250 to 300 of them left!