The Zebra is another "repeat offender" costume of mine - I've now dressed up as it five times in various guises. It started off with a group Halloween costume - a herd of zebras (terrifying I know) because we saw some black and white knee high socks on a market stall.
About a year later I went on a group social where all 20 or so of us dressed as zebras in some guise. I wore a white strappy top with black gaffer tape stripes. Black shorts, a black and white stripey scarf tied round my waist to be a tail, and my trusty black and white socks (the only component that has lasted through all iterations of this costume!)
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| 2007 Zebra night. |
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| 2007. Cambridge Night club. |
Next time was on my ski season in France, as a pair of zebras with a friend, on a "Noah's ark" themed night out.
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| 2009. Added in cardboard ears. And about 2 stone. |
Next up: MALIA aka Best Holiday Ever (yes really). We had a fancy dress night. Chose zebras. Obvs. Added in zebra pants here (not seen), as well as one white heel and one black heel. There was a zebra themed bar there as well, cue lots of posed photos with stripey chairs/walls/poles etc
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| August 2010. Look how cool we are!!! |
Next reiteration was a step up. I've been to quite a few Last Tuesday Society events (quirky events company in London that throws parties every couple of months) - this was The Animal Party. I took The Zebra to another level with facepaint: (I changed the black skirt for black tight and just the zebra pants....) The paint took a good 2 and a half hours to do. White face paint is notoriously hard to get looking matte - it takes a good few layers, and it helps if you leave each one to dry (but that obviously takes more time). I spray painted my hair black and white to continue on the stripes that I painted onto my face (got this idea from the costumes from the Cats musical).
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| Zebras gotta eat. This is in the BFI cafe on the Southbank. No one batted an eyelid |
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| Zebra or wall? |
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| 2012. Having a ball on the lightup dance floor at The Animal Party |
Lastly: this weekend. I went to Rumpus, again a themed night that gets thrown every couple of months. The theme was "Revolution and Evolution" (which I actually think is really hard to do!) and we went with zebra/cheetah hybrid/mutant type things. I didn't want to/have time to go over the top with the face paint again, so I just went for half my face, with some subtle pink stripes to make it more "rave-y," as well as my fave new purple lipstick
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| Rumpus, Feb 2015 |
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