Humpty Dumpty Fancy Dress Costume
At 6ft 6ins, 19-stone above boxer is apparently the aftermost being you would apprehend to see angled over a tiny bed-making machine.
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But, that is absolutely area you will acquisition able-bodied Colin Burgin-Plews of an evening, afterwards he apparent an absurd affection with the craft.
The 47-year-old realised his aptitude for bed-making three years ago back he offered to accomplish his colleagues adorned dress costumes.
At the time, Colin saw it as a one-off, but already his accompany and ancestors saw what he could do, they inundated him with requests to booty up dresses and accomplish them clothes.
He acclimated to be a agog abecedarian boxer and rugby amateur but now finds addition way to to absorb his additional time.
Now best evenings the affliction home artisan from South Shields can be begin at home amidst by debris of bolt and reels of cotton.
Colin said: "My wife Catherine can't move for all my bed-making stuff.
"It charge be funny seeing this big boxy Geordie adolescent angled over a bed-making machine.
"But I assume to accept this adeptness to aloof accomplish things. If I can see it, I can accomplish it.
"I was never in to bed-making growing up. It would accept been frowned aloft in my day, a guy sewing.
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"But one day my colleagues and I were cerebration about hiring Alice in Wonderland apparel for a affair we were accepting at the affliction home.
"Then I thought: 'I'll accomplish them instead.' I anticipation I'd accord it a attempt and it angry out I was absolutely acceptable at sewing.
"I spent two hours a night on the apparel and it took me about a week-and-a-half to accomplish ten of them.
"I alike fabricated myself a 7ft alpine White Rabbit costume.
“The alone affair I can’t do is sew by duke because I accept such massive hands.”
Since that day, Colin has fabricated about twenty costumes, taken up abundant hemlines and accomplished several corsets for accompany and family.
He added: "I've been asked to booty up dresses left, appropriate and centre, and accomplish bodies costumes.
"I fabricated myself an Elvis jumpsuit a few years ago and a Humpty Dumpty accouterments for a bounded theatre.
"My wife Catherine alike asked me to accomplish her clothes.
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"I've not anticipation of activity in to business or charging bodies for what I do. I adore it too abundant to do that.
"But if addition offered me some money I wouldn't say no.
"I adopt authoritative things that are funny and angle out though, rather than accustomed clothes.
"Like adorned dress apparel and like my big blush dress that I'm now acclaimed for."
Colin fabricated himself a hot blush dress beforehand this year to fundraise in.
Soon the dress became infamous, and now Colin has been nicknamed The Big Blush Dress.
He fabricated the dress afterwards his friend, Janet Bruce, 47, was diagnosed with breast blight in November 2013, she is now in absolution from the disease.
"I said I'd like to fundraise in her name," Colin explained. "But I knew that if I ran for the account I had to abrasion article pink.
"So I fabricated my hot blush dress in February this year and anybody admired me in it.
["1164"]"Maybe it's because I'm a blokey adolescent so it looked funny.
"My mates anticipate it's a beam me bathrobe as a woman, but it's article we did all the time back I was alive in the RAF.
"Now I get asked to accomplish appearances in it at fundraising events. It doesn't bother me.
"One little girl, Ruby, admired my dress so abundant I alike offered to accomplish her one.
"Now we're activity to run in the dresses in the Mini Great North Run in September.
"The abutting day, the 13th, my friend, Jon Green, and I are activity to be active in the Great North Run in Beauty and the Beast apparel I've fabricated us.
"As Jon's 6ft 8in so I'm abiding we're activity to attending absolutely a sight."
Colin hopes to accession £100,000 over the abutting ten years for Breast Blight Now by active in his blush dress.
“But I won’t stop bed-making either,” he said. “I adulation it too abundant for that.”
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