Beard
June 19th 2003 -
Anna’s Birthday party
Anna’s birthday was a pretty big gig. There were about 50 people, we did a hangi, and believe it or not, we vastly over-catered and were still stuffing ourselves and many other people by Wednesday. Amazing. Anyway, many people turned up in costume (theme: mythical and mystical). Anna went as Titania, and I was inspired by this picture:
To try for King Arthur. Well, it took me a full day of sewing and cutting and salvaging stuff to make a costume that wasn’t completely embarassing, and this was the result:
Not the best photo, but at least it doesn’t show the cheap plastic sword that I used in place of Excalibur. The helmet it too tall, the sun is too orange and a bit mis-shapen, but on the whole, I was pretty pleased with it. The chainmail head-dress was a flimsy grey sequin material, surprisingly effective. Without it, the costume wasn’t even vaguely recognisable.