Gosh, another year almost over!  And here I am writing the last HSF/M challenge post for the year (ridiculously, ridiculously late, as it should have been done before the month started!). It’s hard to know what to write about for the Re-Do challenge, as there is both nothing and everything to give you as inspiration.  Looking back at the years challenges, you probably know which challenges you didn’t do, but really  want to do, which challenges you did do, but wish you could re-do because you weren’t happy with what you made, and which challenges you enjoyed doing so much that you want to do them again! Re-do is always a nice challenge, because it gives you the opportunity to do any of those things, and to get any leftover  projects all tidied up for the new year. I generally end up with so many leftover projects at the end of the year (partly because the biggest part of each project is planning and research, and too often I think of the perfect plan halfway …

I know, I’m running dreadfully behind with this challenge!  I’ve already posted my finished project, and I haven’t even done an inspiration post yet! I’ve already mentioned that screen costumes don’t really inspire me, but there is one big exception to that: I LOVE screen costumes from pre-1945-ish. I love the ones that were meant to represent historically periods (which they usually do with fabulous flair and utter disregard to accuracy), and I love the ones in contemporary costume.  And most of all, I love the costumes where the designer just went mad and created something entirely random. For inspiration, here are my 10 favourite period film costumes: 1. Greta Garbo in Mata Hari.  As a designer, Adrian is definitely my favourite.  He knew how to dress his actresses, and excelled at creating totally iconic costumes.  When it comes to shear mad fabulosity, nobody can beat Adrian!    I mean, look at this:   2. Marlene Dietrich’s tuxedo from Morocco.  ADORE! 3.  Madge Bellamy in 1920s does 1670s – for Lorna Doon, and then White …