On Friday the 13th, a thank you and a summing up

For most of the world, the 2013 Halloween season is just starting. For us, the 2013 season has been going on for months, as we designed and published the new costumes funded by our Kickstarter campaign. This week we unveiled the last of the 19 new costumes with Baba Yaga and Hedy Lamarr. Here’s the update I posted to our Kickstarter backers:


Look at what you did

Dear Backers,

This week we published the last of the 19 new costumes for our 2013 season, all of them made possible by YOU. With the terrifying Baba Yaga and the brilliant Hedy Lamarr, the full set of new costumes funded by our 2013 Kickstarter is now complete.

And it’s all thanks to YOU.

Our traffic is currently through the roof, and the new costumes are a huge hit with all the women and girls out there looking for an alternative to the Sexy Toaster school of Halloween costumes.

What makes me really happy is how wide our audience really is. The teenage girls on Tumblr are tearing it up (you should see the mash notes we get), twentysomethings love us, moms love us, and right now there’s a whole conference of professional women in STEM who are using our costumes for an upcoming event.

Here’s the full list of cool/beautiful/weird costumes your support made possible, all published over the past several months:

(click on each picture to go to the costume page on our site)

Baba Yaga:
babayaga2013_illustration

Hedy Lamarr:
hedylamarr2013_illustration

Artemis:
artemis2013_illustration

Liliuokalani:
Liliuokalani costume page

Queen Mab:
queenmab2013_illustration

The Morrigan:
themorrigan2013_illustration

Annie Oakley:
annieoakley2013_illustration

The Trung Sisters:
trungsisters2013_illustration

Hypatia:
hypatia2013_illustration

Christina of Sweden:
christina-of-sweden2013_illustration

Marie Curie:
Marie Curie costume page

Ching Shih:
chingshih2013_illustration

Grace Hopper:
Grace Hopper costume page

Rosalind Franklin:
Rosalind Franklin costume

Anne Bonny and Mary Read:
annebonny-maryread2013_illustration

Amelia Earhart:
ameliaearhart2013_illustration

Grace O’Malley:
graceomalley2013_illustration

Vestal Virgin:
vestalvirgin2013_illustration

Lasiren:
lasiren2013_illustration

Thank you so much for your support, participation, and encouragement over this past year. And thank you, as ever, for helping us Take Back Halloween!

Love,

Suzanne

P.S. Look for your September newsletter in the next few days, with announcements about this Halloween and our coming season.


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