Dec 04 2008
Online Costuming Communities
Everyone who truly loves costumes has the need to discuss their passion. Inevitably, costumers and costume enthusiasts need to find advice, solicit ideas, and deliberate the awesomeness of costumes with others. The internet is of course an excellent place to find discussion communities for costumes.
Renspace. Located at renspace.com , Renspace functions as a MySpace for Renaissance faire and festival enthusiasts. Because of this, it’s fast to find communities relating to costumes. Practically every user is at least somewhat interested in costuming and what to wear at renaissance faires.
Livejournal. Livejournal.com features costumes communities focused on corsetry, kilts, belly dancing, Rocky Horror Picture Show, convention clothing, and more. There is also a large community of SCA enthusiasts who can assist with historically accurate clothing and sewing communities if you would prefer to make your own.
Fashion Era. Fashion-era.com offers an extensive forum related to costuming by era. This is particularly relevant for anyone wanting to get started with a steampunk costume.
The steampunk costumes people come up with are wicked cool.