It was Halloween weekend, and in the grand tradition of many Cornell architecture kids, we built some bad-ass costumes. During our college days, there were no less than three big costume events every year - Halloween, a Beaux-Arts ball, and Dragon Day. People always went all out for Dragon Day, which is where our love for dressing up and making costumes originates.
We brainstormed for weeks on ways to incorporate Anna's belly into a Halloween costume - we were going to a Hollywood-themed party, and wanted the costume to have something to do with the theme...Someone on twitter suggested the idea of capitalizing on the bump with a light bulb costume, which we thought was clever, and we figured I could complement Anna's costume by being a lamp (we'd be props, get it?). But after sketching it out, I thought I'd end up looking more like a royal guard from Alice in Wonderland or some sort of roman centurion armor, so in the end we settled on the hippo and the alligator characters from Fantasia's Dance of the Hours. It was a fun costume to wear, but it was super hard to gauge distances with the masks, so we ended up bumping heads a bunch of times.
It took me three evenings of cutting and gluing cardboard, taping, and painting, but I think the alligator/hippo heads came out pretty nicely in the end. Unfortunately, most people haven't seen Fantasia since they were kids, so not many people knew what we were until we told them (except for one girl at the party who got it immediately because she used to watch the movie all the time as a kid).
So now we are brainstorming for ideas for next year. We will have an unruly six month old to deal with, so our team costume will have to accommodate her. We're thinking about Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and of course - backpack Yoda.
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