For the past few weeks I’ve been working on Emily’s latest Halloween costume. This year she asked me to make the Cyndi Lauper outfit from the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” video, which was, appropriately, a lot of fun to make. It’s a coincidence, since I recently posted a squaw apron pattern, and the skirt Cyndi wears in the video is a thrift shop squaw skirt, probably from the 1950s.
As you can tell from the photo below, Cyndi’s skirt is very full. I decided to make Emily’s skirt with circular tiers, instead of the straight ones called for in my vintage pattern — it’s still very full, but less bulky and heavy. It’s a little trickier to sew the trim on a curve, but I like the way it turned out — the bottom of the skirt is just short of 9 yards long.
Here’s Emily . . .
and here’s Cyndi . . .
Of course, we couldn’t find anything like these weird tribal mask earrings Cyndi wore, but I thought I could make them with Sculpey clay, and that’s exactly what I did.
Your daughter seems almost as awesome as her mom – thank you!!!
I love Cyndi Lauper… that was my era! 🙂 Your daughter’s outfit is even better than Cyndi’s!!
Unbelievable! What a sensational costume. Hope she has fun!
wow!!
What a good mum you are! And your daughter is gorgeous too.
Wow! Great costume! Great modeling, Emily! Both look fantastic!!
Looks great!!! Where do you find the time to do all the fabulous things that you do? Do you sleep? I wish I could accomplish just half as much!!! Love your blog.