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Costume-Con
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The convention
by
costumers
for
costumers. Costumers who are considered expert or knowledgable about a particular area of costuming typically volunteer to help other costumers learn, but a few exceptions have been made. Costume-Con 26 is over, but the website has photos of the events and people wandering the hallways. Take a look!
The next two Costume-Cons are going to be:
Costume-Con 27
in Baltimore, Maryland May 1 through 4, 2009 with the theme of Vampires, Villans, and Vixens.
Costume-Con 28
happens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin May 7 through 10, 2010 with a Spy theme.
To find out more about Costume-Con in general, its history, and where the next few Costume-Cons are going to be, go to
Costume-Connections
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Costuming Groups
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You've got all sorts of costuming groups available to you, and they frequently have costumed events plus workshops and sources of information. Some of them are online, so look for them on the web, at conventions, and other events happening around your area or school.
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Science Fiction Conventions
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Science Fiction Conventions, aka "SF and F cons," "cons," or events with names like NameCon, are where you can go to find out more about costumes, science, science fiction topics, meet writers, artists, top-level scientists, and other people who share an interest in science fiction, science fantasy, and the sciences. Especially the sciences related to space exploration. One website devoted to the topic is
SciFi Conventions
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Re-Creation Groups
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Usually historical in nature, you can typically find a group for your historical interest.
Society for Creative Anachronism
(S.C.A.)
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If it's before 1600 and documented, you can create a character for that time and country/region. Some describe it as "the Middle Ages as it should have been." An educational group where some get serious about historical accuracy and others don't. At events called "tourneys," you can help re-create a tournament field.
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American Civil War Society, Inc.
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Battle re-enactments have cannons that go "boom," plus the soldiers and ladies from both sides present.
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No list can possibly be complete. The best advice is to open your favorite search engine, type in the historical period that you're interested in plus the word society, so your search would look something like:
"wild west" +society
or:
"art deco" +society
The quote marks keep phrases grouped together, so you don't get ten zillon result items with "wild," and yet more with "west" which have no relation to what you want. The + is a way of saying that you want the phrase in quotes
plus
the other word. You can have several + items, such as:
"phrase" +x +y +z
to be sure you get what you really want. However, too many + limitators can make it so that you wind up with no matches, so be aware of that.