{"id":1380,"date":"2016-09-13T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:36:54","slug":"myrtle-r-douglas-recognized-as-the-mother-of-convention-costuming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/2016\/09\/13\/myrtle-r-douglas-recognized-as-the-mother-of-convention-costuming\/","title":{"rendered":"Myrtle R Douglas Recognized As the “Mother of Convention Costuming”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Myrtle R “Morjo” Douglas<\/p><\/div>\n

At MidAmeriCon II, the 74th Worldcon in Kansas City Missouri, the ICG made a special presentation, announcing its recognition of Myrtle R “Morojo” Douglas as the “Mother of Convention Costuming” \u00a0during the masquerade on\u00a0August 19th, 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An article in the Sept-Oct 2016 issue of the ICG\u00a0International<\/em> Costumer newsletter describes how Morojo helped start the tradition of convention costuming by making “futuristicostumes” for both Forrest J Ackerman and herself that they wore to the first Worldcon in 1939.\u00a0A special video produced for the presentation that explains how it all happened is available on the\u00a0 ICG YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0with closed captions in English, French, German, and Spanish (more to come).<\/span><\/p>\n

Morojo’s recognition is also featured on a “Special Awards” page under “Awards” on the ICG website, along with the ICG’s previous recognition of Forrest J Ackerman as the “Father of Convention Costuming.”\u00a0Also, see the announcement<\/a> in the ICG-D Yahoo Group.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to ICG Board member Bruce Mai for championing this long-overdue recognition for Morojo, and arranging to show the video at\u00a0MidAmeriCon II.<\/p>\n

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At MidAmeriCon II, the 74th Worldcon in Kansas City Missouri, the ICG made a special presentation, announcing its recognition of Myrtle R “Morojo” Douglas as the “Mother of Convention Costuming” \u00a0during the masquerade on\u00a0August 19th, 2016.\u00a0 An article in the Sept-Oct 2016 issue of the ICG\u00a0International Costumer newsletter describes how Morojo helped start the tradition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

At MidAmeriCon II, the ICG announced its recognition of Myrtle R Douglas as the \"Mother of Convention Costuming\" in a special award video during the masquerade. The video is available on the ICG YouTube channel<\/a>, and the Special Awards page<\/a> on the ICG website includes her recognition. See theannouncement<\/a> in the ICG-D Yahoo Group.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/myrtle_lake_cropped.png?fit=1470%2C1872&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gaFh-mg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costume.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}