Survey your current wardrobe for costume components.
"The slump in the euro has really affected our business, since Europe accounts for 80 percent of our business and we receive euros from our clients," said Wu Xiaozhan, the sales manager of Yiwu Disa Jewelry and Belt Company, a producer of beads and other costume jewelry components in Yiwu City, in east-central China.
Break the costume into its component parts.
Exploring the components of costume drama, the artist is emphatic in his insistence on the place of Africans in western history.
In the weird synchrony of life imitating art (or at least of life imitating half-finished New Yorker covers), this year ten-year old Clara's Halloween costume employed as its crucial component the application of "scary/sexy" makeup.
Only Thanksgiving – which has no baked-in retail component, brooks no costumes, and hardly requires historical recall – has the potential to be great.
LaJohn Joseph reported that the friend's apartment where he was staying was covered in pizza boxes and components of ongoing costume experiments.
It's hardly a conservative affair: turbine propellers establish an industrial atmosphere, the costumes have a distinct S & M component, and much of the usual action is discarded, including the entire Te Deum procession in Act I (Scarpia is alone onstage).
But it was the hand-stitched pants that proved the most trying component of the outré costume.
I woke up the next morning thrilled that we had some simple components to make a quick Tinker Bell costume for the birthday belle to wear.
