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    Posted August 21, 2012 by
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    Dragon*Con costumes and more

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    Variety is the spice of my life

    By TnSabregirl  |  Posted August 21, 2012  |  Nashville, Tennessee
     

    CNN PRODUCER NOTE     Planning to be dressed in costume for all the days at Dragon*Con, TnSabregirl says the biggest struggle for making costumes is time. "I'll be working on husband's cloak and my "Corsair" coat right up until the end, I'm sure," she says. "My friend Laura is helping me with parts of the coat for the new "Corsair" costume. In exchange for her help, I'm helping her with specific tasks for her costumes. We all have different strengths."
    - Anika3, CNN iReport producer

    When I was a child, my mother made dresses for me in colors to match flowers blooming at specific times of year. We'd stop by a nursery's field of cannas for a quick photo of me in my new red dress, or she'd pose me under the climbing roses in a dress of pink and white.

    I guess those memories, in addition to nurturing my love of gardening, left me with an appreciation for clothing as an occasion -- as a spectacle -- in and of itself. Like many people, I wear "normal" business casual clothes to my 9-6 job as a web analyst, something more formal for interviews and client meetings, and jeans or shorts with a tee shirt on weekends. But I've never forgotten that joy of spectacle with which she gifted me: the pure pleasure of wearing a special outfit to commemorate a specific time, place or event, historic or fictional.

    I've been blessed in my life to have married a man who shares my appreciation for drama and spectacle, as well as for fencing and history. Although our costumes often require hours of work - he is working on a breastplate even as I type this and I spent over 100 hours on one of my costumes last year - it is a welcome diversion from the everyday things that most adults have to do. And it gives us the opportunity to pretend - if only for a little while - that we are someone other - pirates, warriors, elves, sorcerers, characters from books or legend.

    Why settle for "normal"?
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