This one came about by accident, I had no thoughts about doing an Amy costume when I bought the red American Apparel hoodie last year, I just liked it. (I liked it enough to buy it in another color too!) . I'm not really sure what has caused the desire this year, most likely because I was pondering what I would wear in the parade since Sharaz Jek's suit bit the dust last year. I knew I wanted to march with the Doctor Who group , and I'd thought about bring Sarah Jane back. I was mostly looking at cheep costuming ideas, or anything I could pull together from a trip or two to Goodwill. But still I'm not sure when I decided "Hey I'll be Amy Pond", because except for the fact I owned the real hoodie, I had none of the rest of the costume. I'm still a bit hesitant on Amy because SO many people are doing her costumes right now, but I'm starting to understand why there are so many... the clothes are fun and wearable everyday!I do need to drop a few ponds (or 10) though...
Now for this one as I've said I've already got the hoodie (otherwise I'd be adding $32 dollars to the price of my"Cheap" costume.
Grey tight leggings $5 (these are much darker in person the camera doesn't really capture the true color) at Target.
Black socks $1.50 at Target.
Skirt the first one I bought because I could also wear it to work was 14.99, but I've since found a more accurate jean one at Goodwill for $5.
Purple/grey nail polish $2 at Wal-Mart
Now here there be monsters, or where my desire to costume does not mach my bank. I did buy the Navy Converse, ($45) although to be fair mine where getting old... really...
And now I've also bought a wig, since I have black hair (I'm finally agreeing with the rest of the world, my hair is closer to black and not brown :)) The wig was a good buy at 21.99. That should arrive here in April in time for Time Gate and Dragon*con.
One of these days I'm going to have to look up the word cheap because I don't seem to have a handle on it yet :)
I came across your blogspot and wondered if you minded me asking where you got your wig?
ReplyDeleteHi sorry I didn't see this sooner,I didn't get a notification in my email that someone had commented! The wig from here: http://www.amphigory.com/wigs_b_calla.html
ReplyDeleteIn the henna color. I had gotten this one vs. http://www.amphigory.com/wigs_linda.html in the copper (which most Amy's seem to have gotten) because of the price.
I think either of them are excellent and I don't regret getting the cheap version, although I think the linda one may offer more styling and looks the 20 dollars real-er (we are going to pretend that's a word :))
I really liked the site, it takes them about a month to ship but it got here when they said it would and everything was packaged nicely.
I hope this helps!