International Costumer Blog Posts
Jeanine Swick Receives 2023 ICG President’s Award
ICG President Kevin Roche presented Jeanine Swick with a 2023 ICG President’s Award during the Costume-Con 39 for her work as ICG Treasurer and as a member of the ICG Budget and Finance Committee.
From The President’s Desk: April 2023
Greetings from the International Robogames! I am volunteering at this year's event rather than competing, putting my event-running skills to use to help the organizers keep things going smoothly and safely; it's amazing how much similarity there is between running...
“Making and Styling Wigs for Costumers” SiW Webinar Video Available
On March 12, 2023, Kendra Van Cleave gave a talk entitled "Making and Styling Wigs for Costumers" as part of the Silicon Web Costumer's Guild (SiW) webinar series, Kendra discussed how costumers can learn to make and style wigs for their costumes. She also talked...
From the Publications Committee
The International Costumer is now configured to operate without an editor. Articles are published as blog posts on the “International Costumer” page of the ICG website. Authors create their own posts rather than submitting content to an editor, making content...
“Cosplay: A History” SiW Webinar Video Available
On January 29, 2023, the Silicon Web Costumer's Guild (SiW) welcomed Andrew Liptak, who discussed his book Cosplay: A History. The book is a deep dive into the origins and culture of cosplay that covers a wide swath of its history to understand where it came from, how...
DC Cosplay Photo Shoots SIG Hosts Exhibition
The DC Cosplay Photo Shoots Special Interest Group (SIG) hosted an exhibition from February 4-11 at the Vulcan Muse Gallery in the Workhouse Arts Center of the work that guests to their events have made over the years. SIG chair Dan Arango said that they are very...
Join the ICG Facebook Discussion Group
Did you know that the ICG has a Facebook group for member discussions? The ICG Discussion Group has posts by members about costumes and costuming. You will also be the first to see ICG news and announcements, and the latest posts from the International Costumer blog....
An Unusual Masquerade Stage
The masquerade at the Astronomicon 13 science fiction convention, Henrietta NY, November 4-6, 2022, was scheduled for 8:00 PM on the Saturday of the convention. Scheduled in the same room for 9:00 PM was a Cosplay Ball, with a dance floor and DJ. For weeks we wrestled...
From the Publications Committee
As ICG President Kevin Roche said in his January 2023 "From the President's Desk," The International Costumer is now publishing individual articles as blog posts on the "International Costumer" page of the ICG website.This change came about out of necessity because we...
From the President’s Desk — January 2023
As of today, January 27, 2023, we still do not have an editor for the International Costumer, so as I intimated in my November column, we are for now switching to a simple series of occasional blog posts on the ICG website rather than attempting to hold a formal,...