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These costumes were a blast to make and 'shopping the photos to make them look like authentic publicity stills was one of those gleeful Tank Girl moments where I thought, "You know, I could make a living doing this!" ^^

If you don't recognize us, these two characters are The Middleman and Wendy Watson from the eponymous ABC Family TV show ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Middleman_%28TV_series%29 ) - since cancelled. They fight evil. And monsters. And robots. And aliens. Under the guise of the Jolly Fats Weehawkin Temp Agency. And Wendy ("Dubbie") paints on the side.

You can see more photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffrey_sewell/sets/72157625284007742/ .

Technical Details:

• The jackets were made from the Yugo Officer Army Dress Tunic at armynavydeals.com. I had to chop them up a bit (especially mine) to make them look right and buy new buttons (and then spray-paint them silver/black, because I am too obsessive).
• The guns were just nerf knockoffs from Target that I spray-painted black and silver (and may I say, that they make plastic-specific spray paint now just made my day? :) ). They still worked and a little kid at the party last night spent the whole evening shooting people with foam darts after I loaned him my gun (he had damn fine aim, too!).
• Everything else was just JCPenney or Target. Although I had to get my skinny tie on Amazon because I wanted a *really* skinny tie.