Fasching 2011: Athena

My skills for costuming Greta and Simone on important holidays can really coast along at a bare minimum of throwing together something that glitters on the morning of. But there are those few times that things just come together — I feel the spark! This year, happily, was one of the latter. Certainly due in part to Greta’s enthusiasm and myth fascination which had her thinking and talking about her fasching costume for months. Once I got the gold spray paint in hand, we were good to go.

Photos are not great, but here are some things of particular note: her gold wrist cuffs, Medusa’s head on her shield (apparently it is supposed to be mounted on the breast plate, but it just did not fit), her owl emblems. No weapons allowed (sigh), or she would have had a large spear.

Some music for page viewing (Recently found out this song is about Theresa Russell!):

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