Ever wish you were Mugatu?
For hallowe’en we threw a house party and I dressed up as Mugatu, from Zoolander. It came together really easily. The hair was the part I was most worried about, and I found a perfect “flapper wig” for 7 bucks at Value Village that was already blonde and parted in the middle with tight curls. At first I thought I could hairspray it up into the ridiculous heart shape of mugatu’s hair but that wasn’t really working…then it dawned on me that a glue gun was the answer–much stronger hold and never gets stiff or sticky (after it has cooled at least). I already had a pair of shiny black leather pants (but of course!) so all I needed to buy was a grey sweater and some huge sunglasses. I had plenty of black leather to make the collar, cuffs and ‘mugatu’ letters for the sweater. I also whipped up a corset.
The only problems with the costume were that the leather pants and corset got looser and looser as the night went on (it was hot and I guess steamy? in the house) until I felt downright frumpy. And a frumpy Mugatu is a pathetic Mugatu. Also the wig didn’t fit very well over my head–I think because my hair is quite long and I had it up in two buns so it made my head too tall–and the wig kept creeping up and back so my own, very dark brown hair was showing at the sides. Minor problems, really, compared to past hallowe’en costume issues. One year, I went as a purple velvet chair with gold trim, and stood around in a half crouch with my arms forward looking inviting, but people just thought I was a crown royal bag and kept trying to find the bottle.
Another time, I went as a mummy and wrapped myself from head to toe with strips of old white sheets (tip–cut the strips on the bias). I could barely see and had to make a tiny hole to drink through a straw–nobody knew who I was, couldn’t read my lips or hear me in the loud bar, and my hearing was muffled. ON top of that, I was pms-ing and felt pretty alienated in the first place. Then a vampire with a pot of fake blood (I assume) said ‘oh, you’re an accident victim!’ and threw the blood over me.
Then there was the time I dressed as a giant white fluffy bunny (along with my boyfriend, Mike–I made the matching bunny costumes) and felt sweat trickling down my sides and back all night as stupid person after stupid person in the bar playing my least favorite music in the world (celtic rock) said “gee, aren’t you hot?”
So being Mugatu was delightful compared to all of that. And I got to say things like “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” and “do me a favor and lose five pounds!” and “obey my dog!!”. I also ran around telling people they were so hot right now. It was a dream come true.
Maybe the best part of the whole experience is that not a single person was confused about who or what I was. After all, it’s spelled out right there on the sweater.
In other, more important Bonspiel matters, my friend Nicole showed me a website where you submit fabric designs and they print out the fabric for you. I made one with kitties that I drew from a cat I saw on Icanhazcheezburger.com and am awaiting the arrival of a couple of yards of quilters’ cotton. I am hoping that if the quality is good I will be able to sell yardage in my etsy shop of original Bonspiel fabric! and also use it to line bags with. This is profoundly exciting to me because I am looking for ways to produce more product without having to work more. Also because how cool is it to design your own fabric? Here’s the swatch of the kitty stuff:
Bonspiel kitty fabric
2 Responses to “Ever wish you were Mugatu?”
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Bonspiel Randomizer
January 26th, 2010 at 3:23 am
Dude, I love you. Also, I say “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills” all the time. I also love Michael Kors because he reminds me so much of Mugatu.
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