A lukewarm start to Wondercon…
By Dino-Ray Ramos
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 6:32 pm in Celebrities, Clothes, Clothing, Costume Design, Costumes, Entertainment, Events, Fashion, Pop Culture, SF Bay Area, San Francisco, Style.
Well, at least for me it was.
The hustle and bustle of the Wondercon command center at the Moscone Center in SF
I usually go to Wondercon to take pics of the outrageous costumes that some of the die hard fans are wearing (I also go to increase my geek factor - “geek” is so chic right now), but today after walking around in a cloud of comic book ink and lightsaber fumes for nearly two hours, I didn’t see any costumes worth photographing.
However, I did run into a very costumey exhibitor based i So Cal known as Pendragon Costumes. Their costumes, mostly handmade, were like a fusion of Galliano, Lord of the Rings and Lord of the Dance.
Aristocratic - and very romantic. I swear I saw this at a Galliano show
Memoirs of a Geisha meets Evanescence
This one is lookin’ a bit “beer wenchy”
There was also a celebrity alley of famous superhero and sci-fi icons from the past. Noel Neill the original Lois Lane from the ’50s “Superman” was there clad in a superman t-shirt and a blinged-out necklace (much like the outfit she is wearing in the pic below); the retro “Incredible Hulk,” Lou Ferrigno was there - and he is HUGE. Also in attendance was Peter Mayhew (a.k.a. the cuddly Chewbacca in the Star Wars flicks) - he was also tall and huge. He also had a sign hanging at his table that said something like, “I know you like me, but please don’t stare!”
I don’t think I was allowed to take pictures of them - because there were signs that said $10 FOR PICTURES at each of their booths - or I think I was just too chicken to approach.
But one thing that did bring out my sci-fi geekdom was the new Lost video game!
Hopefully tomorrow there will be more fun costumes to take pics of!
By the time the weekend is over, I will be reciting lines from Star Wars and wearing a hobbit costume with the best of them.
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