First, let me explain what pust is. It’s a holiday that represents the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Its dependant on the date of Easter, but every year we have the pust-Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday. People dress up in costumes, a lot of different mask festivals take place, and children go around houses for candy… It’s similar to Halloween, but it is celebrated for a different reason. The most recognizable, Slovenian pust mask is kurent. In the city of Ptuj, men dress up in traditional costumes, made out of sheepskin, with lots of heavy cow-bells hanging around their waist and a special head piece with a big red tongue and two colorful horns. They jump around, producing loud noises in order to scare the winter away.
Other people however dress up in different costumes for fun or just because they can. Well the latter would be me. When I was in London for a week in February, I bought this simple short sleeveless white shirt with a Banksy print and a pair of 16 cm high night-walks (heels without an actual heel). Well when the time of pust was approaching, and idea of me being a wall with graffiti (the shirt) popped into my head… And I really wanted to show off my shoes and not be too scary (with the shoes on I was almost 195cm tall).
The first thing I did, was transform a pair of my old white pants from a bell-like shape, to a more modern kind of tight-jeans look. I then took a sharpie and started drawing on the pattern of a bricked wall. In the beginning I wanted to use acrylics, but when I tried them on the actual fabric, it broke when folded and it just didn’t look good. The second idea I had, was using sandpaper for old or damaged bricks, but in the end I just went with more unified less costumy look (so I can wear the pants on a normal day sometime). The sharpie didn’t last long so I switched to an alcohol based marker. I was drawing from top to bottom, so even when my marker was already dying it slowly faded to a lighter shade, that didn’t break up the look of the pants. The whole process took about 3 and half hours to complete.
For my makeup I decided to go with a simple version, because I didn’t want to overdo it and take away from the shoes. I painted my face white with regular local store face paint, no eye makeup, and then colored my lips black. It was actually totally black only on the edges, towards the middle it faded into dark red. My hair was in a tight bun with some of the paint going over my hairline, unifying the look of the painted face. First picture from myschool site.
I think my look worked. It was original and I really had fun planning, making, and in the end, wearing it to school. I did turn some heads especially with my height. But sadly not many people recognized Banksy’s graffiti even though, it was the main inspiration for my look.
BONUS: My sister got dressed in a skeleton costume. Everything except the gloves has been painted by me, using acrylics for the clothes and face paint and regular makeup for the face
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