Of the costumes I saw from Island People Sacred Sand looked beautiful! I really liked that costume at the mas camp and it looked the same on the road. Sahara Jumbie also looked great, the actual costume was of an iridescent material and only the headpiece had the black feathers. Jewel of the Nile, Oasis, Goddess and Nubians failed to live up to the hype for me. Jewel looked cheap; there some girls from that section in Tribe so I inspected the costume up close. My hubby even got some girl’s arm band from Jewel of the Nile and half the stones were missing already! Nubians looked okay, the frontline headpiece was a slightly smaller one than the prototype, now that is another thing I take issues with, and not only with Island People. Why do they advertise one costume and when you eventually get it they cheat you out of feathers or beads making the costume with fewer materials than what were displayed? Anyway, Nubians needed to be a more vibrant red and many masqueraders got rid of the fabric.
Island People
Oasis which was another one of my favourites looked quite “normal” on the road, nothing outstanding, and that headpiece looked like chicken wire! Goddess was one of those costumes that looked better on some people and not all. You simply had to be of the right complexion to pull off the costume, but overall it looked okay. Being the “hot” section I expected much more. As for Sirrocco Winds I finally saw what was reported before and I have to say the fabric used was not what was on the original costume at the launch! The new fabric was more of a hand painted print with shades of orange and brown while the costume displayed at the mas camp was gold/bronze, russet brown, orange and tan; I thought the gold added some much needed sparkle to the costume and without it the fabric looked dead. Raiders of the Desert looked cute, the girls I saw had more of a camouflage print going on than just plain kahki. I also saw Arabian Nights, which looked just like on the website, Cacti which was not so bad in the sunlight, Taureg looking good and Sahara Sunset which to me looked cute, except for the headpiece. The section that I thought looked really good was Le Soleil Brule, one thing about the majority of Sonia’s masqueraders is that they have the body to pull off the costume and the ladies I saw in the bronze costume looked really good.
For 2008 it would be nice if Mc Farlane could use real costumes instead of drawings , reason being that I had a somewhat difficult time identifying the sections except for Kaal (looked great) and Royalty (lovely decorations). Being the theme “India” my expectations were that all of the sections would have used fabrics that were light or silky, yet some of the ones I saw were cotton. The ladies dressed like villagers with the water pot, looked nice though the colours varied from the website and the jewelry they wore did not look very “Indian” to me. I guess I had one picture in my head of how the sections would look, and in reality they looked a bit different. All in all, Mc Farlane looked great from the little I saw and he took the Band of the Year title to kudos to him!
Mc Farlane
Harts as usual looked very pretty. They always use the most vibrant shades for their plumes and beads and the costumes are always well decorated. I saw many of the costumes and Atlantis looked gorgeous as well as Aztlan, Oceana and Shangri-la.
Legacy’s costumes looked really nice, I saw Kiowa which has been a favourite from the beginning with me and a few masqueraders in other sections. Of Trini Revellers I saw D Krewe’s entire section, and they looked really good as well as House of Hapsburg which looked great! I only saw a few girls from the section Mai Tai in Pulse 8, costumes looked ok and I saw one guy in Mojito and I liked how that looked. Genesis costumes, well the ones I saw, looked good. I saw Helen of Troy and Briseis which both looked quite good on the ladies I saw wearing them. The one band I did not see at all was Dream Team, though I saw a few photos of one section on trinisoca.com.
Hopefully I can get to see more bands through photos; I know trinisoca.com is first on the ball with Carnival photos and triniscene.com, carnivalscene.com, islandevents.com as well as other online photo websites were all on hand taking lots of photos!
All photos from www.trinisoca.com
7 comments:
You know what I saw that kind of made me sad, people's costumes just slowly disappearing as I was chipping downtown, I see a girl's fireman backpack on the ground, and just... so many pieces. I mean my costume stayed on really well, nothing really dropped off, a few beads here and there.
What I like about harts is they know how to use colours that usually really sparkle and shimmer in the sun. I agree with your review with mc farlane, softer swirlier fabrics (like ip's 2nd king) would have been better to really have more effect. And also more real models, even though the sketches is very, traditional and exceptionally beautiful, it forces the design to comitt to one type of body, look feel etc. When people are 3 dimensional.
It was disappointing 2 not be able 2 see the other bands, the only way I saw some other costumes was when some gyrls from IP jumped into Tribe. Saw a Goddess gyrl (w the wire bra) & Mirage, Jumbie, Cacti, Jewel, Nubians, Sunset, LSB, A. Nights... All looked fantastic! Missed McF's & Dougla :( :( but saw the elephant rickshaw later Tues. night.
I am one of those who keeps the costume in tact all day. I know some people had issues with bits and pieces of their costume and took them off/threw them away.
The sketches were lovely, but it is difficult to picture exactly what beading/gems/jewels would be used until you see the costume in person. Even the had painted costumes looked a bit different than the sketches.
i played in ip and i thought that my costum in soleil brule was great! i also saw the other sections in the band and i thought that they look good as well. the reason why i would not give any props to harts is that they use the same design over and over, that is a total lack of creativity that they have been lacking since they took over from their parents.
anyway, tribe came 3rd so i guess that they really looked good.
tiffany, you should have showed saucy the fireman back pack on the ground, she dosen't seem to see stuff like that.
how could i make such a mistake, my bad!!!
IP CAME 3RD!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAH!!!!!!
anonymous you back again lol? What is your real problem/issue? really, clear the air and say what is on your mind.. what bothering yuh what in yuh craw cause yuh eh make no sense there trying to put words in my mouth! I said and I quote:
"I know some people had issues with bits and pieces of their costume and took them off/threw them away."
Yuh want meh to say I SEE a Fireman back pack on the ground to make yuh happy when I personally did not see it.. I was in section #1 Fireman was in section #15 how the rass I seeing what going on in de back?
Get that chip off yuh shoulder it's getting rather old. :D
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