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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

Posted on October 16, 2016October 21, 2016 by Martha

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on Emily’s latest Halloween costume. This year she asked me to make the Cyndi Lauper outfit from the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” video, which was, appropriately, a lot of fun to make. It’s a coincidence, since I recently posted a squaw apron pattern, and the skirt Cyndi wears in the video is a thrift shop squaw skirt, probably from the 1950s.

As you can tell from the photo below, Cyndi’s skirt is very full. I decided to make Emily’s skirt with circular tiers, instead of the straight ones called for in my vintage pattern — it’s still very full, but less bulky and heavy. It’s a little trickier to sew the trim on a curve, but I like the way it turned out — the bottom of the skirt is just short of 9 yards long.

Here’s Emily . . .

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and here’s Cyndi . . .

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Of course, we couldn’t find anything like these weird tribal mask earrings Cyndi wore, but I thought I could make them with Sculpey clay, and that’s exactly what I did.

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  • 7 thoughts on “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!”

    1. Emily Gray says:
      October 16, 2016 at 6:21 pm

      Your daughter seems almost as awesome as her mom – thank you!!!

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    2. Little Penpen says:
      October 17, 2016 at 5:18 am

      I love Cyndi Lauper… that was my era! 🙂 Your daughter’s outfit is even better than Cyndi’s!!

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    3. Wendy C. Reed says:
      October 17, 2016 at 5:27 am

      Unbelievable! What a sensational costume. Hope she has fun!

      Reply
    4. Karen Bordner says:
      October 17, 2016 at 7:35 am

      wow!!

      Reply
    5. Chris says:
      October 17, 2016 at 3:08 pm

      What a good mum you are! And your daughter is gorgeous too.

      Reply
    6. Sharrie says:
      October 17, 2016 at 7:10 pm

      Wow! Great costume! Great modeling, Emily! Both look fantastic!!

      Reply
    7. Val says:
      October 18, 2016 at 8:05 am

      Looks great!!! Where do you find the time to do all the fabulous things that you do? Do you sleep? I wish I could accomplish just half as much!!! Love your blog.

      Reply

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