KIKI'S COSTUME PICKS: #2 The Angel

This season’s sheer and boudoir-inspired trends mean magic for costuming. The ability to inject a little sensuality and sexuality into Halloween costumes is a longstanding trend with women (and girls much too young to be participating in these types of fashions), but if done tactfully, can be liberating and immensely fun—- all part of the exhilaration of “donning a different mask” on All Hallow’s Eve.

Today I’ve flipped from black to white, exploring the angel possibility for my second potential costume choice. My favorite, draping semi-sheer white Kain tee is graceful and delicate; I imagine myself in it winding gracefully down a set of stairs, make-up frosty and silvered against the soft sheerness of the shirt, and below the belt…below the belt…hmm, well maybe I’ll have to put that fantasy aside until I can complete this look. I would sport the store-bought wings with the right angelic ensemble, assuming their shoddy construction would disappear behind the -–excuse me, heavenly guise of my outfit.

I’m left flipping through Vogue again for inspiration, my Bible in dire fashion-dilemma times like these. There are only four days left until Halloween and the Beau is already growing weary of my constant “What do you think of…”’s.

And then, in an old summer issue on a half-torn page, a beautiful Alice + Olivia mint silk asymmetrical dress protrudes from the page. A lovely one-shouldered answer to my costume prayers and I can fully recant the fantasy now head-to-toe, the most lovely ringlets set in my hair, gold gladiator sandals on the feet and (well, what else?) nothing but Thierry Mugler’s Angel on the wrists.

By Kiki D
Published October 29th, 2009 17:06

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