Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Drama students win awards at Costume Con

Fairies, fuzzy monsters and Payson drama students garbed as Vikings converged recently in Phoenix at the 30th annual Costume Con.The Payson students came away with awards.Costume Con is a four-day international conference that showcases the talents of folks who design, make and wear costumes. Design themes come from fashion, science fiction, history, art to wear and everything in between.Kathy Siler, chair of the Payson drama department, asked local costume buff Parry Morton to attend Costume Con with her students and help them with costumes.

Siler and Morton have collaborated for years.It is possible to uncover many different Cheap Maid Costumes at a costume retailer as part of your location. You can in all probability have the ability to seek out numerous very good types with the nearby department store."I used to work for Disney,If you are in the industry for Sexy Animal Costumes 2012 or young children Halloween costumes, preserve these strategies in thoughts." said Morton, "I've done the Renaissance Festival for 22 years."Morton designs and wears elaborate costumes from a Viking to a Steam Punk genre character. He has participated in festivals and contests for years. He uses his design talents at each drama performance to create costumes and makeup with Siler's students.For this year's Costume Con, Morton dressed drama student Sarah Sprinkle in his intricately patterned leather costume of the Viking Valkyrie sister to go with his Sven the Viking costume.

He spent more than 5,000 hours working the leather."The costume Sarah wears has Olaf's (a historical Viking King) crest on her leatherwork," said Morton.The subsequent are classified as the Halloween Sexy Cat Woman Costumes 2012 that most men and women would like this Halloween time (and possibly might be sold-out very quickly).Morton and Sprinkle, along with Morton's fiancee Marguerite Young, former Payson student Deanna Biesmeyer, and Matt Southard won a prestigious award for the intricate tooled leather on the Viking costumes and the ethereal fairy wings.

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