C3PO dress

The "Gold Metal Man Dress" by Etsy seller GeekyU1 is a pretty good stab at a C3PO frock. Made to order for $200.

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723148341 Lucy Gothro

It’s not even GOLD, fercrissakes!!! Are these people color-blind?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Hung/100002536908419 Richard Hung
  
  Agreed. It’s nowhere near the same color as C3P0. It looks full-on copper, less brassy-gold, which always seemed more C3P0′s look.
  
  Red Gold is even an alloy of gold and copper, but this still doesn’t quite cut it – C3P0 dress my ass…
http://twitter.com/bradgall Brad Gall

No matter how hard you try you can never make C-3PO stylish or sexy.
- Boundegar
  
  But since this dress looks nothing like C3PO, it works just fine.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=723148341 Lucy Gothro
  
  Unless you exploit his resemblance to Maria from “Metropolis”.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Hung/100002536908419 Richard Hung
  
  Be careful with such pronouncements. As soon as you say this, someone Out There will order a C3P0 RealDoll ™, and you’ll feel eerily compelled to try it out.
- Gilbert Wham
  
  She’s pretty damn sexy.
  Just sayin’
skeptacally

This would be WAY more controversial with ice cream condoms.
Kenmrph

I’ll be in my bunk.
http://twitter.com/sftochch sftochch

Not to be a spoil sport — I recognize that designing and producing a dress like this takes some serious skill — but it reminds me of the girl cookie monster costume.
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http://twitter.com/AmberCami Amber

The models’ poses are ridiculous. Why do even DIY designers insist on photographing their clothes on women who are standing in ways no sane woman would ever assume? Particularly out in public in front of what is probably a yarn store? And don’t say those poses showcase the clothes better because that is a very wrong answer. It just looks DUMB.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Maybe it’s like foot-binding.