Is February too soon to start planning your Halloween costume?

Hi, everybody! We’re back after our holiday break/anti-hacking fight-to-the-death (which we won, by the way), and raring to go. We have 17 new costumes to design, plus 2 Special Request costumes from Kickstarter backers, plus whatever else we can squeeze in. It’s going to be a big year, and we need all the time we […]

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Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!

Our Kickstarter campaign is over, and you know what? WE MADE IT! And then some! Thanks to our wonderful backers and friends, we made our initial Kickstarter goal plus two stretch goals! We are so grateful for the support and incredibly excited about the costumes ahead. And the outpouring of love and good wishes towards […]

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Costume Candidate for 2013: Seondeok

Backers of our Kickstarter project will get to vote on which new costumes we do for 2013. This series of posts is designed to briefly introduce the many notable women and legendary figures we’ll be considering. Seondeok was the greatest queen in Korean history, and the first to rule in her own right. She ascended […]

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Costume Candidate for 2013: Maria Makiling

Backers of our Kickstarter project will get to vote on which new costumes we do for 2013. This series of posts is designed to briefly introduce the many notable women and legendary figures we’ll be considering. Maria Makiling is the most widely known and beloved diwata (fairy or nymph) of the Philippines. As the guardian […]

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Costume Candidate for 2013: Baba Yaga

Backers of our Kickstarter project will get to vote on which new costumes we do for 2013. This series of posts is designed to briefly introduce the many notable women and legendary figures we’ll be considering. Baba Yaga is the legendary witch of Slavic folklore, especially Russian fairy tales. She lives on the edge of […]

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Costume Candidate for 2013: Lady Montagu

Backers of our Kickstarter project will get to vote on which new costumes we do for 2013. This series of posts is designed to briefly introduce the many notable women and legendary figures we’ll be considering. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a brilliant essayist and poet whose husband was the British ambassador to the Ottoman […]

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Costume Candidate for 2013: Hedy Lamarr

Backers of our Kickstarter project will get to vote on which new costumes we do for 2013. This series of posts is designed to briefly introduce the many notable women and legendary figures we’ll be considering. Movie star by day, genius inventor by night: it sounds unbelievable. But it’s true. Hedy Lamarr was an extremely […]

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Costume Candidate for 2013: Huang Daopo

Backers of our Kickstarter project will get to vote on which new costumes we do for 2013. This series of posts is designed to briefly introduce the many notable women and legendary figures we’ll be considering. Before James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, and Eli Whitney, there was Huang Daopo. This Chinese peasant woman, who lived some […]

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Costume Candidate for 2013: Bessie Coleman

Backers of our Kickstarter project will get to vote on which new costumes we do for 2013. This series of posts is designed to briefly introduce the many notable women and legendary figures we’ll be considering. You’ve heard of Amelia Earhart, but do you know about Bessie Coleman? She was the world’s first black female […]

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New Kickstarter stretch goal!

It’s a Kickstarter tradition: if your project meets its original goal with time to spare, then you set an informal stretch goal. Yesterday our Kickstarter project met its original goal of $4,500 (YAY!) with six days to spare. So, a stretch goal is in order. Our choice for the stretch is pretty obvious, since I […]

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We’re verklempt!

WE MADE IT! Thanks to all our wonderful backers, our Kickstarter is 100% funded! And still with 6 days to go! We’re so overwhelmed with happiness and gratitude right now, we’re just burbling incoherently. Thank you, thank you, thank you. As soon as we can pull ourselves together we’ll see about a stretch goal so […]

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Announcing the winner of our 2012 costume contest!

We had so many terrific entries to our 2012 costume contest that it was hard to choose. But choose we must, and so the winner is: Abigail Kluska as Freyja. Congratulations, Abby! Doesn’t she look wonderful? Abby was inspired by our Freyja costume design, and she did an absolutely fantastic job with it. Here are […]

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