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ok.... I decided for an assignment in Fashion Design to design an outfit for a fire twirler / performer...
What are your likes / preferences / ideas???
[ 12 May 2002, 22:53: Message edited by: sarah... ]
Fire... A bushmans telly
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Location: Austin TX USA
My own preference (which may be completely unrepresentative) would be for something with the following qualities:
- made of lightweight perforated leather
- covers as much as it needs to, but no more
- snug but not restrictive
- reinforced with heavy leather over high-wear areas (knees, butt)
- black in areas that are likely to get smudged, but perhaps some other color/s in other spots
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HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Ok, this would be appropriate for a man:
1) Snug-fitting, stretchy stuff that hugs the skin.
2) Made of material that doesn't hang on to ash scuffs. If I hit myself, it tends to be below the knees and on my back between my shoulders, so maybe those areas could be black.
3) Lots of bright contrasting colors in other places. Asymmetry is cool.
4) No sleeves.
-Mike
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Location: Berlin, Germany
Personally, I like industrail/apopalyptic H.R. Geiger-esque designs. Leather with spaces cut out for more breathing room and also that whole peek-a-boo effect. Tight is also good because you don't have to worry about watching out for extra material. For women a leather corset would be nice. And maybe some wrist coverings for protection will doing wraps.
There's my .02. Good luck and be sure to post a picture of whatever you do when its done.
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still can't believe it's not butter
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
tails are cute.
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spin naked
you can't have a war against terrorism because war IS terrorism.it's not about worshipping fire. its about making the fire want to worship you.
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Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Spin naked with specially designed see-through piercing coverings to prevent ripping
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What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Ok, call me a sexist pig, but I don't want to see hairy man skin poking through a costume.
THAT SAID, the costume designer for the original Star Trek series said that the two easiest materials to work with are veleur (sp?) and female skin...
Peace.
-Mike
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Location: Sydney
I'm just learning some good arm wraps now and i have a friend working on some arm-coverings for it. Leather with either buckles or laces, gauntlets if you will....
black is good, black is all good for looks and for covering up those impact marks. Personally, i have no issues spinning shirtless, i still have all my chest hair thankfully.
When i do spin, it's just some dark 3/4 pants and my goggles I don't want the costume to take too much away from the fire show.....
still can't believe it's not butter
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
You can dress up as a hella badass
* B O U N T Y H U N T E R *
..now that's what I'm talkin' aboot!
The stitching on Zam Wessel on the sides of her bodice would look mad on a leather fire kit!
woot! zero sleeps to go!!
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HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Between Furlong and Bender, I came up with an idea: Leather forearm coverings, but the rest of the arm is bare to the shoulder.
Peace.
-Mike
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A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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Location: Southampton
Maybe try to incorporate something which would reflect the light from the fire? Those little mirror things that some womens dresses have on!
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still can't believe it's not butter
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
quote:Have you noticed the correlation between sequins and undercover cops?
Originally posted by pyrophile:
Those little mirror things that some womens dresses have on!
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HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
quote:No, Bender, I haven't... Maybe it's an aussie thing?
Have you noticed the correlation between sequins and undercover cops?
-Mike
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A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
still can't believe it's not butter
6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
quote:Hey i head J Edgar Hoover liked sequins - no wait he wasn't a Cop. err. at least James T Kirk was a cop.. The Cop!
i like to quote quotes quoting quotes!
quote:
Originally posted by MikeGinny:
quote:No, Bender, I haven't... Maybe it's an aussie thing?
Have you noticed the correlation between sequins and undercover cops?
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HOP Mad Doctor
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
The only cops I've seen in sequins were in a bar I walked into accidentally in San Francisco. But I'm sure they were off-duty...
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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