Parliament Costuming

[swan_tower]

Need clothes? Shoes? Makeup? Accessories? If you're in search of items to help you create your costume for the Parliament of the Apocalypse, leave a comment here. If you can fill such a request, or just want to broadcast that you have neat items somebody might find useful, also leave a comment. This seems the best way I can figure out for people to network about sharing costume items, without spamming the list.

(If the above paragraph confused you completely, then you're not in the Parliament game, and need not worry.)

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Comments

[sarcastibich.livejournal.com]

I need to know what type of toga/wrap Persephone should wear. Any help from folklore types? I'd look it up, but don't have time at work and the internet is down at home.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

You're in luck; a chiton is very, very easy to make.

http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/CGPrograms/Dict/ASP/OpenDictionaryBody.asp?name=Chiton

Then basically you belt it low on your waist, or under your breasts, or you try the thing where you cross two belt/straps from your shoulders between your breasts. And then you wrap a long non-fringed shawl around yourself as a himation.

The main thing I'd recommend for you, to make your costume interesting (chiton and himation being Pretty Damn Simple), would be to buy or borrow a wig of long, dark hair, and then braid it up into a crown with slender braids coming down over your shoulders.

[sarcastibich.livejournal.com]

I sooooo don't know how to braid hair. Much less hair on a wig.

So, I guess the help I'll ask for now:
Does anyone have a nice long dark wig that I could borrow?
Does anyone know how to braid hair and feel they could help me borrow said wig (should I be loaned one)?

danke