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  • Whether they’re making spot-on ’80s period clothing or producing hundreds of detailed, Afrofuturistic outfits, costume designers regularly pull off staggering creative feats. Because I don’t understand how anyone can make inch-long gloves or minuscule boots, I rang up Cook to learn about the time-intensive (albeit fabric-minimal) process of making costumes for the littlest movie stars. What does the process of creating miniature costumes look like? How big are the figures you’re making costumes
    How a Stop-Motion Costume Designer Makes Tiny Clothing for the Big Screen

  • — to a movie theater near you is Faith Herbert, the first major plus-size superhero. And then there’s the fact that she’s fat. So far, the closest we’ve come to a major female superhero being plus-size is, somehow, Incredibles 2’s Elastigirl, whom a chorus of tweeters praised for being lowkey thick. Which is why even as the genre has made steps in increasing its racial diversity, a plus-size superhero comes as such a surprise. The correct answer is, obviously, Aidy Bryant — she’s young, bubbly,
    After One Zillion Years, Superhero Movies Will Finally Have a Plus-Size Lead

  • But possibly an even stranger aspect of the MCU is that it’s the men who are the ones with the uncomfortable costumes. “I have been hearing Marvel male superheroes complain about their suits for years,” she said. I wear heels to work, I’m uncomfortable all day.’ You get used to it, you tune it out!” Lilly added. pic.twitter.com/PM6XOI69JC — gabi blunt (@emilybluntz) June 24, 2018This isn’t the first time an MCU star has called out her male peers for being costume divas. Maybe Marvel should force
    Apparently Male Superheroes Are Divas About Their Costumes

  • Later in the series, though, that cloak becomes the actual Jedi costume, which wouldn’t make sense if it were meant to be inconspicuous. But it made me think of a different, extremely nerdy, and equally non-timely debate: What happened to the fucking witch hats in Harry Potter? But to anyone who’s watched the Harry Potter filmic universe become increasingly Muggle-ified, it’s not a surprise. A sea of formal witch hats and robes, after not being prominently featured in many of the previous movie,
    Why Harry Potter’s Witch Hats Disappeared and Jedis Wear Robes

  • They just straight-up look cool and add an element of personal style to games in which fashion is otherwise prescribed. To the layman, 20 bucks might seem like a lot to spend on a free game, but many serious gamers have spent far more. Owen*, a 13-year-old seventh-grader living in New York City, has spent $15 so far on Fortnite skins. “A lot of my friends play Fortnite and have skins, and you could say we are kind of competing,” he says. If clothes are dying and millennials care more about exper
    Why We Spend Real Money on Fake Clothes in Free Games

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