🔧 DIY Red Green Costume: How to Dress Like Possum Lodge's Favorite Handyman Red Green is the creation of Steve Smith, a Toronto born writer and performer. Smith studied engineering at the University of Waterloo before drifting into teaching and then comedy. He developed the character years earlier on the sketch series Smith and Smith, […]
DIY Granny Moses Costume 👵 DIY Granny Moses Costume: How to Dress Like The Beverly Hillbillies' Sweetest Matriarch Irene Ryan had already spent decades building a career before Granny ever entered her life. She started performing in vaudeville as a child, worked steadily through radio and film in the 1930s and 1940s, and toured with […]
🤠 DIY Jed Clampett Costume: How to Dress Like The Beverly Hillbillies' Most Famous Hillbilly Buddy Ebsen was a trained song and dance man long before anyone knew him as Jed Clampett. He worked steadily through early Hollywood musicals in the 1930s, building a career on genuine talent as a performer rather than any particular […]
👖 DIY Daisy Duke Costume: How to Dress Like The Dukes of Hazzard's Most Iconic Southern Belle Catherine Bach reportedly cut her own denim shorts for the role of Daisy Duke when The Dukes of Hazzard premiered on CBS in January 1979. Nobody on the production expected what happened next. The shorts were so short […]
DIY B.A. Baracus Mr. T Costume: How to Dress Like The A-Team's Toughest and Most Golden Member Mr. T built the persona behind B.A. Baracus long before The A-Team ever cast him. Born Laurence Tureaud in Chicago, he worked as a bouncer and a celebrity bodyguard through the late 1970s, protecting clients including Muhammad Ali […]