I was a mummy every year from 1981 until 1991. It started out as just strips of bed sheets wrapped around white shirt & pants (it all ended up around my ankles within an hour). The next year, I added 2-faced (carpet) tape to help keep it in place. After that, I started over with new fabric and sewed some of it permanently to the shirt, to make the wrapping process faster and help keep trouble areas from still coming loose, even with the tape. The entire wrapping process took about 2 hours and required an assistant. Every couple of years, I would remake the costume, making it more pre-fabbed and adding conveniences (like a fly). My final version had a head piece pre-wrapped around the eyes & top of my head that required only a few wraps to finish, a shirt pre-wrapped on the shoulders, upper-chest, & upper-arms, pants pre-wrapped from the waist to the knees and had a hidden pocket for ID & money and a zippered fly, pre-wrapped gloves, and pre-wrapped boots. And, the best part, I could finally wrap myself, without an assistant, and in about 30 minutes. I finally retired the costume in 1991 after someone referred to me as "The Mummy With A Tummy". In 1981, I was 6' 3" and weighed 160 pounds. By 1991, I weighed 210.
I have been something different every year since then.
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