Halloween Location Looks: Day 1 of 31 - Grease

My costume series kicks off today! One month of costume inspiration from our favorite movies and TV shows shot in front of the actual shooting locations! Get ready. Today's costume comes from:

Grease's "Rydell High" was actually the exterior of Venice High School.

Still looks just like it did when the film was shot in 1978...

I loved the transformation of Sandy(Olivia Newton-John) from poodle skirt to Candie's heels, so we're recreating her sultry side for the costume!

The key Sandy costume pieces that you'll need include:

1. Red Lipstick (I wore MAC Dangerous)

2. Mules (I wore my vintage Candie's, but any slide on heels work!)

3. Wig (Starlet Wig c/o Party City)

4. Leotard (A spandex/nylon one works well) 

5. Leggings (shinier, leathery ones will be your best bet)

"Look at me, I'm Sandra D!"

I felt just like I was one of the Rydell kids.

The "shake shack" Sandy/Danny portion has got to be one of the best parts of this end sequence!

Unfortunately, there's no shake shack at the school, so "Danny" and I took to the hallway.

We did our best ONJ/John Travolta impersonation...

...and think we were successful.

Such an easy costume to think about for Halloween!

Channeling my inner Olivia Newton-John couldn't have been more fun!

One look down, 30 to go!

Film Details:

Grease (released by Paramount Pictures, dir: Randal Kleiser)

Location: Venice High School (13000 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90066)

Halloween Location Looks Series!

For the month of October, I'm going all in. Costume lookalikes from our favorite movies and TV shows will be featured each day for the entire month. But wait, there's more...

The costume copycat pieces won't just be shot in the surroundings of my lovely Los Angeles neighborhood, they're going to be shot in front of the actual shooting locations!

Head over to Instagram where a teaser of the next day's look will be given the day before. You can play along as this month of looks rolls out...

Get ready for 31 days of costume inspiration, movie/TV nostalgia, and Halloween prep like you've never seen before.

Remake: Green Floral Muumuu

I really loved the print of this muumuu.

The floral print at the bottom was my favorite part, so I started to think about ways to upcycle this into something wearable!

While wearing the piece and looking at all the seams, I knew exactly how I was going to upcycle this!

Time to get out the seam ripper!

Seam, meet seam ripper! You guys are going to get along really well.

I started to remove each of the sleeves.

I really loved the shape of the neck on this muumuu.

And when the sleeves came off, it was easier to see the sharper edges that were made at the shoulders. I wanted to let this be the focal point!

Sharper shoulders, check! I pinned to prep for a little bit of sewing.

On top of the shoulder area, I also took in the piece a bit at the arms. There was a larger hole made from when the sleeves were taken off, so I wanted to close up shop a little as well!

I was headed to Palm Springs, so leaving it long and flowy was just how I was going to wear my new piece!

Hello 70s!!

I went to Palm Springs with two of my best girlfriends for a quick weekend getaway! Even getting out of LA for a night feels like a way longer vacation!

We were taking too many pics in the photo booth at the Ace Hotel!

We went to Las Casuelas for a Mexican feast and met a bunch of new pals while dancing to the live band play everything from Journey to Roy Orbison.

There were too many candids going on at the table!

We had the most fun dinner before heading back to the hotel...

...where the shenanigans continued! I was so obsessed with the window display at the hotel! Hello amazing knots! I posted this shot on Instagram over the weekend and @mackenzie.91 called it "an awesome parrot toy" which I couldn't agree more!

It's got a total retro/nautical vibe going on, which suited my ensemble to a tee!

It was back to the room after that, where we grabbed glasses of water to find them super cloudy. We even checked with the hotel to see what was going on and they said it was because of extra air bubbles in it. (It had an Alka Seltzer-y look because of the color/bubbly texture.) I added a pack of Emergen-C to my bubbly H2O...

...and called it a night!

More Palm Springs pics to come...