Your Fantasy Costume

Next weekend people dwelling in England will have the pleasure to be able to attend the Avalon Faery Ball and Avalon Faery Fayre. Taking place in Glastonbury town Hall, Somerset. With music by the Dolmen, it’s your chance to dress and show with your best garments. There will be also a fair with sellers during the day, so you can also look among a wealth of crafters.  For more information please visit the faery balls website.

On another part of the globe, USA next early November we’ll be able to experience the Faeriecon.

Faeriecon will be celebrating in Baltimore (USA East coast) next 6-8th of November. Array yourself in your most beautiful faerie finery, don your wings, gather your friends and family and cross the threshold! You will find the largest gathering of faerie artists and authors in the world who look forward to meeting you, amazing, magical apparel, beautiful jewelry, mysterious masks, handmade crafts, fashion shows, performers, musicians, storytellers, exhibitions, panel and workshops.

And at night, the gates of Faerie open once more at the Good Faerie and Bad Faerie Masquerade Balls, acclaimed the last two years as the astounding highlight of FaerieCon. This year featured performing bands are:
-Good Faery  Ball: Telesma, SJ Tucker and Woodland
-Bad Faery Ball: Priscilla Hernandez (Spain) (yay, that’s myself by the way!) and Faun (Germany)

Look deep into your heart: are you a Good Faerie or are you a Bad Faerie? Make your choice, create your costume, and dance the night away in the Magical Realm.

The next link has to be one of the most amazing fantasy costuming sites in the internet.  Alley Cat Scratch costume is a mega data base of movie costume documentations, studying and research in great detail from famous movies gowns models and designers, providing write-ups and will help you to create your own replica.

If you’re intending to dress like ANY of the characters from The lord of the rings movie, or inspired by Tolkien works. We want you to recommend you to visit Alley. They’ve studied about the costumes from fabric to patterns to metalwork. From hobbits to elves, covering not only the gowns and garments, but also cloaks,  headresses, wigs, leather-work, shoes, belts and even make up tutorials to make you look a lotr character. They have a community to get feedback, keep you up to date with costume exhibits in different areas, and also cover dresses patterns, sewing tips  and tutorials of other movies, fantasy and sci-fi and futuristic, but being their pivotal focus in lord of the rings movies.

A must see… for those ones good at crafts, and also for those ones not so but in need of ideas, from very easy to be done to things that are for those with good hands…! Bookmark for reference, it’s an awesome site.

I was born and raised in the Canary Islands (Spain). In my native islands there is a big tradition for carnival, each of the seven islands have party, queen’s election. The biggest example is Tenerife’s which holds the biggest Carnival’s celebration after famous Rio de Janeiro’s . I lived in Santa Cruz quite a few years enough to see all the expectation around the election of the Carnival Queen each year. A topic or theme is chosen each year, so most of the people in the streets try to be fitting with the elected carnival’s theme. This year’s is “horror” (actually good for a place where Halloween doesn’t exist). Election is tomorrow and the event will be aired in several internet televisions. This year is aired by CANAL 7 and you can tune it here tomorrow night 21:00 (center european time).

If you want to see the humongous, huge and deluxe queen gowns visit the event.

This is also a good chance to have a look to this massive party, consider to pay a visit in upcoming edition which also has the plug of visiting a lovely tropical island in the Atlantic ocean. You can check the official event page here

Update: WINNER OF 2009
“BEWITCHED”  (Embrujada)

Another entry regarding an interesting event where you can attend and showcase your fantasy costume.

Celebrating every year in Philadelphia, Faeriecon is a macroconvention devoted to fantasy and fairy worlds where you’ll find hundreds of booths selling garments, masks, and also conferences, movies and entertainment. And also fantasy illustrators  and guest artists like Brian Froud (The Dark Crystal, Into the labyrinth) and Alan Lee (The  Lord of the rings), faeriec costume contests and much more!!!.  I’ll be myself opening the good and bad faery ball this year (the balls take place in Trocadero Theatre Friday 10th and 11th October.

So the balls program is like this

+info and complete program of the event at http://www.faeriecon.com