Costuming Resources and Tips

 

Costuming Resources

Note: I cannot vouch for any of the vendors to which this site links.  I have not necessarily done business with them. If you have difficulty with any of them please let me know.

General Suggestions/Other Firefly Costuming Sites

Join the Firefly Costumes LiveJournal community, http://community.livejournal.com/fireflycostumes/

If knitting's your thing, check out the Big Damn Knitters at http://community.livejournal.com/bigdamnknitters/

To discuss costumes and prop replicas, try http://www.fireflyhero.net

Julesong has started a website that collects links to all sorts of costuming resources: http://www.fashionablybrown.com/

Check out the Browncoat Fashions site at http://firefly.girven.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi?Page=Fashions

Another Firefly/Serenity costuming site is http://serenifly.tripod.com

Hypercoma started a thread on the Official Board with a list of costuming resources recommended for the Browncoat Ball: http://forums.prospero.com/foxfirefly/messages?msg=16667.1

Johanna has a great list of suggestions for putting together Firefly-esque costumes for participants in live action roleplaying games (LARPs) as well as suggested links for purchasing what you need: http://www.skaro.com/firefly_cos.html

Have you listened to "The Signal", the Firefly podcast? Episode 2 has a discussion on "How to Make a 'Verse-worthy Costume on a Browncoat's Budget." Download the show at http://www.serenityfirefly.com/.

Keep track of all the official and unofficial merchandise that you can get your hands on via http://www.serenitystuff.com/.