🤠 DIY Festus Haggen Costume: How to Dress Like Gunsmoke’s Most Beloved Scruffy Deputy Before Ken Curtis ever set foot in Dodge City, he had already replaced Frank Sinatra. Born Curtis Wain Gates in Lamar, Colorado, and raised in Las Animas where his father served as county sheriff, Curtis came to show business through music […]
📖 DIY Aunt Esther Costume: How to Dress Like Sanford and Son’s Most Righteously Fearless Church Lady LaWanda Page was already a legend before most of America knew her name. Born Alberta Peal in Cleveland and raised in St. Louis, she had spent decades performing in nightclubs billed as the Bronze Goddess of Fire, an […]
🔧 DIY Fred G. Sanford Costume: How to Dress Like Sanford and Son’s Most Lovably Cantankerous Junkman There are sitcoms that entertain, and then there are sitcoms that change the landscape of what American television is willing to show and who it is willing to center. Sanford and Son premiered on NBC on January 14, […]
👗 DIY Mrs. Roper Costume: How to Dress Like Three’s Company’s Most Beloved and Glamorous Landlady There are supporting characters who fill out a scene, and then there is Helen Roper. Audra Lindley played Mrs. Roper on Three’s Company from 1977 through 1979 with a warmth and a comic timing that made her one of […]
🕺 DIY Napoleon Dynamite Costume: How to Dress Like the Most Awkwardly Iconic Character in Indie Film History Napoleon Dynamite arrived in 2004 the way most things that matter arrive, quietly, without announcement, and through the back door. The film was made for roughly $400,000, shot in eleven days in Preston, Idaho, and premiered at the […]