London has been the focus of the world for the past two weeks because of the Olympics. But Hollywood movie and costume fans will refocus their attention on London this Autumn as, just prior to Halloween, a London museum will reveal a fantastic collection of costumes from some of the world’s most popular movies. The […]
I started Funtober to ensure that I have more fun in my life. And I’ve been working pretty hard on the website in the past few weeks. Halloween is less than 90 days away now. So I spent the past weekend on the beach in Ocean City, Maryland for a little rest and relaxation. While […]
Movie fans have been dressing up at opening night movie screenings for a while now. I have no idea when it started. But I can remember the television news coverage from the midnight showings of Harry Potter that seemed to have every fan wearing some sort of Harry Potter costume. There was also newspaper coverage […]
The dust is now settling from Comic Con in Los Angeles over the weekend. And the big winners were Iron Man and Oz. We both knew that Iron Man was going to be hot. The success of The Avengers this spring ensured it. But when Robert Downey Jr. entered the Iron Man children’s costume contest […]
On this day 100 years ago, the costume shop that has made the clothing for some of your favorite movies and television shows opened. Western Costumes was formed on June 30, 1912 by L.L. Burns and Harry Revier to supply Hollywood, which was just getting into the motion picture business, with costumes, stages and props […]
I started adding content related to costumes over the weekend. There’s less than 90 days until Funtober begins, so I’m probably behind schedule in that regard. But I’ve also decided to close down some of my niche Halloween costume sites and move the content over here to Funtober. So hopefully it will go a bit […]
I spent the evening researching how to make a Katniss Everdeen costume. The only costumes that I have found to purchase for the blockbuster movie are for sale on Etsy. Were costume manufacturers caught off guard by the popularity of the movie based on Suzanne Collins’ trilogy? Or did they decide instead that the outfits […]
The Incredible Hulk just celebrated his 50th birthday and played a prominent role in The Avengers, the fourth highest grossing movie of all time. But it was neither one of these two events which caused the Hulk to be in the news today. A Brazilian man running in a Rio de Janeiro race decided to […]
