Carbon Costume

Nostalgia is something that is the driving factor behind so many trends online. We look back on our childhood and together we appreciate and remember things like Barbies to Bratz dolls. The internet has brought back their popularity over the past years, realizing the how great the fashion these dolls have and one of these that have been trending recently, are the historic line of the American Girl Dolls. American Girl Dolls were very popular in the early 2000s. They came with books of their stories and each are from different time periods.

In this I’ll be covering how you can create a costume after the doll Melody. Melody was a doll released more recently-in 2016 but is still in the historic line. Her story takes place in the 1960s. To dress like Melody, wear a green patterned dress, teal blue sunglasses and shoes, white frilly socks, and a teal blue handbag. Add teal blue ribbon to the dress and your hair, or wear a teal pillbox hat.

Allan is a character in the Adult Swim cartoon Smiling Friends, now streaming on HBO Max. He is a tall red critter who radiates positivity and happiness, although sometimes he can be gullible and unobservant. He works at Smiling Friends alongside Pim, Charlie, and Glep.While Pim and Charlie go make people smile, Allan acts like more of an assistant to the Boss. For instance, he goes on an adventure to get paper clips. Uptight and deadpan, he’s een as the “neat-freak,” namely obsessing over his missing cheese. Allan sometimes exaggerates certain words with a nasally inflection.

Nostalgia is something that is the driving factor behind so many trends online. We look back on our childhood and together we appreciate and remember things like Barbies to Bratz dolls. The internet has brought back their popularity over the past years, realizing the how great the fashion these dolls have and one of these that have been trending recently, are the historic line of the American Girl Dolls. American Girl Dolls were very popular in the early 2000s. They came with books of their stories and each are from different time periods.

In this I’ll be covering how you can create a costume after the doll Kirsten. Kirsten is one of the iconic dolls from the line and her story is one that takes place in 1854.  To dress like Kirsten, start with a blue colonial-style dress. Under this wear a white petticoat and white bloomers with a lace trim at the hem. Over this wear a red gingham apron and gold heart locket necklace. Pair with yellow and white striped socks and brown boots. Braid your hair in two braids then time with elastics back on the base of the braid. Cover that area with blue ribbons and wear a red gingham bonnet.

Curly Brace (voiced by Chihiro Yamamoto) is a character from the Cave Story game.  Like Quote, she is a robot with green antennae at the side of her head.  She has an automatic shield that activates when missile weapons target her, and she can wield a number of weapons.  Curly has long blonde hair and wears an orange crop top, orange cargo pants, and brown booties.  You can add an orange waist satchel to your outfit and cut the wire from a pair of bright green headphones to emulate the look of her green ears.

Cameron (voiced by Kevin Duhaney) is a character from the Cartoon Network Total Drama franchise.  He appears in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island as a member of Mutant Maggots alongside Jo, Mike, Zoey, Brick, and Anna Maria.  He appears again in Total Drama All Stars.  Much like Cody, Cameron is very smart but physically weaker than many other competitors.  Cameron has short cropped hair and wears a red pullover hoodie, yellow shorts, and orange sneakers, with striped tube socks.  He also wears black framed glasses.

Hector Rodrigo Casagrande Gutiérrez (voiced by Ruben Garfias) is a supporting character in the animated series The Casagrandes.  He is the husband of Rosa and the father of Maria.  Hector owns a bodega and enjoys letting Bobby work at it, though he can sometimes be overprotecting of his grandchildren.  Hector is balding with a bushy grey mustache.  He wears dark green pants, a pale yellow shirt, and black shoes.  He also wears a mustard colored sweater with yellow circles on the elbows, which you can add to your costume with iron-on patches.

Jared is a character from the movie Booksmart, and is played by Skyler Gisondo. The comedy film follows best friends Amy and Molly at the end of their senior year, where they attempt to experience things they haven’t in school like partying, but all in one night before graduation. Jared is an outgoing character in the film that we learn is a student just desperate for approval, but all in all we learn to find him endearing in the end.

To dress like Jared, either wear a pre-printed Jared shirt just like this hilarious one in the movie, or make one of yourself using a white blank tee and transfer printer paper. Under the white tee, wear a black collared striped shirt, and over the top wear a maroon bomber jacket. Pair with two sizes of gold chains and a red key clip on your jeans.

Tommy is one of the main characters from the Netflix series Sweet Tooth, and is played by Nonsoe Anozie. Sweet Tooth follows Gus who is a boy that is half human and half deer as he travels through a post-apocalyptic world with help from Tommy.

To dress like Tommy, wear a brown trench coat over a red zip-up hoodie and a white t-shirt. Pair this with dark khaki cargo pants and black hiking boots. To take the look even further add on a backpack and distress the costume using deep brown paints.

Pence (voiced in Japanese by Hayato Taya and in English by Sean Marquette [KH2]) is one of Roxas’s friends in the Kingdom Hearts series.

He is part of the group along with Hayner and Olette, and generally tries to keep the peace between both their internal group, and Seifer’s Disciplinary Committee (this doesn’t often go well). He’s a lot more tech oriented than the others, and eventually helps Sora try to get into the computer system in the basement of the old mansion.

Pence has dark brown spiky hair that he wears a black and white headband across, and light brown eyes. His KH2 outfit consists of a white long-sleeved undershirt with black cuffs, which he wears a red, black, and white jersey-type shirt over top of, which has a black image of a dog with bones over it, and ‘DogStreet’ written vertically next to it. He wears a purple bandana around his neck, obscuring the collars of the shirts. His pants are a pair of oversized mid-toned blue jean-looking ones (though they may not be denim), which he wears over the back heels of his shoes, which are white with blue detailing and dark grey soles.

“Let’s go out there and make people smile!” Pim is one of the main characters in the Adult Swim cartoon Smiling Friends, now streaming on HBO Max. He is a small purple critter who radiates positivity and happiness, although sometimes he can be gullible and unobservant. He works at Smiling Friends alongside his best friend Charlie. Optimistic and joyful, Pim loves helping friends, family, and strangers alike. Pim has an Australian accent.