ST:TMP Costumes

I checked out a new used bookstore in Pasadena yesterday—that is, a new bookstore that sells used books. They had some Star Trek and film-related books and it reminded me how much I loved going to the Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven growing up.

I would sit there for hours (it felt) going through making-of books and new issues of Cinefantastique. I bought a bunch and still have and treasure them today.

As much as the Internet is a cesspool of misinformation that is destroying humanity, it is also a stellar repository of all this stuff that we used to get solely through books and magazines—free and even more comprehensive.

Behold this exhaustive article about the costumes of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

And its video counterpart:

Well done, Obsessive Costuming Dude! (That’s his YouTube handle, very apt.)