As proud Ant warriors, we all just LOVE to dress like Adam, to wear his make-up, stuff like that. But sometimes you take a picture, you say "ooh, this is easy to make!", and then find out it's not as easy as you thought it is. So I'm trying to help you to make your Ant costumes as easy as possible so you'd have something nice, cheap and original to wear on Halloween, Carnaval, Purim or the Ant conventions.

Please note, the stuff that are marked with *oPT* are optional. Meaning, you could pass them and you still look like Adam. And the "Rating" part is for you to know how easy\hard it is to make. *= easiest, what are you so excited about?! \ *****=hardest, if you can do that, I'm going to give you a Nobel Prize for AntFaning and a kiss!

Alright, let's get started.

When the last Ant convention was held in London (unfortunate) I wasn't there. therefor, I kicked my parents from the house, told them to be out until late late in the night, made sure the telephone was off the hook, that the music was loud and went to wear my Ant costume. But oh dear! the make-up case I had was taken away, so I had to make another costume really really quick. Guess what I dressed up as? for only a few hours I was

• Rating: *
• Era: Punk
• Years: 76-79
• Notable things: Leather. Lots of it. Red right eyebrow, black right eye... and did I mention leather?
• What do you have to find and wear in order to be Kid?
• Leather trousers. But since I'm a person who don't touch cows if they're dead (Come to think of, even if they're alive I don't touch them...) I took a regular pair of trousers from my dad's closet. If you do what I did, they have to be brown and fold them at the edges.
• Leather jacket. Biker's jacket will be fine.
• A regular white T-Shirt or it can be one with some sort of print on it. It really doesn't matter since almost no one sees it.
• Suspenders
• If you want it to look like the Kilt era, just wear a Kilt over the leather trousers.
• MAKE-UP:
• Put white make-up on your face
• Since I can almost bet on the fact that you won't die your right eyebrow red, just use a red pencil to colour it. It may look shocking at first, but after a while you get used to it.
• Use a black eye pencil, or a black eyeshadow all around your right eye. This too may look like a shock at first, but you'll get used to that as well.
• And if you can't find a shirt or the jacket, just say that you're Adam in a concert somewhere around 78...

• Rating: ***
• Era: Kings Of The Wild Frontier
• Years: 80-81
• Notable things: A pirate's jacket, leather trousers, big feathers in various colours, napkins and cloths (Or like this friend said when he saw Adam:"He really went down on his grandma's closet..."), a white stripe across the nose, braids.
• What do you have to find and wear in order to be an AntWarrior?
• A white blouse, fluffy as possible.
• IF you can find one (and I'm still sure I can, I just haven't looked in hard enough), a black jacket (I think made of velvet), with golden embroidery all over it. I think you can find them in stores that sell theatrical accessories or in theaters. But they probably cost a fortune.
• *oPT* Tie a red bend around your right arm, ON the jacket.
• *oPT* Attach a big white feather to the right epaulette, and move it to the back.
• Black leather trousers that are not so tight on your body. It's very important to all of the costumes except the Prince Charming one and the Goody Two Shoes one.
• *oPT* Put a belt with a large buckle. And under it, tie two large cloths: red and white, around your waist.
• *oPT* Take a white cloth and print on it the Antwarrior logo, and round the edges of it, print Adam And The Ants. Tie it somewhere around the belt and make sure people can see what's printed.
• *oPT* You're going to need 4 scull shaped rings. Put them on the third and forth finger of each hand.
• Braid the hair on your forehead with red-golden, light blue-golden and Yellow threads (I use the ones that people use to wrap presents with. It's cheaper.), but make sure the hair is not seen.
• *oPT* If you have long hair, take a group of hair from behind your left ear and curl it gently. Take another group and braid it with the red-golden thread and wrap the curl you made around it.

• MAKE-UP:
• Draw a white stripe across the nose, from one cheek bone to another. Make it thick and even. (I use a white lipstick and lips-brushes. They're available in every pharmacy.)
• Use an eye-liner around the eye, not in it.
• There are two versions of which eye shadow you can use: the concerts version where he uses a dark silver one, and in the pictures he used a pink\orange one. Make sure it reaches the end of the eyebrow and above the eyes.
• Draw two crosses on the temples, one on each temple.
• Draw side-burns with a black pencil. It has to be long and to almost reach the lips, and not too thick!
• Use lip gloss on your lips.
• That's it. Now you're a complete Antwarrior. And if you can't find a blouse or the jacket, you can always say that you're Adam singing Physical...

It's not often used, it's not very easy to make, it's gorgeous and it's called the

• Rating: **
• Era: Prince Charming
• Years: 81
• Notable things: A black cape, pirate's hat, a white embroidered vest, a black blouse, a white stripe across the nose.
• What do you have to find and wear in order to be a Dandy Highwayman?
• A black cape, very long, without laces to hold it (Well, actually no one will notice if there are...)
• A black blouse, fluffy as possible (Or you can take the one you've used for the Ant warrior and dye it black?)
• *oPT* A white vest with off-white embroidery all over it. It's very very hard to find, I didn't even think about looking. But maybe you're like Ant Lady who made one of her own...
• Leather trousers, large buckled belt, these things repeat themselves about in every costume.
• A pirate's hat. I know it should be optional, but believe me, it's important. Otherwise, you're just a guy in black clothes and a white stripe across your nose... You're supposed to find it in any toy store or in costume shops.
• You still need to braid your hair. Look above for instructions.
• *oPT* Four rings, scull shaped, look above for instructions
• MaKe-uP:
• The make-up sorts of repeats itself here too, but here it is anyways:
• Draw a white stripe across the nose, from one cheek bone to another. Make it thick and even. (I use a white lipstick and lips-brushes. They're available in every pharmacy)
• Use an eye-liner around the eye, not in it.
• There are two versions of which eye shadow you can use: the concerts version where he uses a white eyeshadow, the video one is light purple, very delicate.
• Draw two crosses on the temples, one on each temple.
• Draw side-burns with a black pencil. It has to be long and to almost reach the lips, and not too thick!
• Use lip gloss on your lips.
• Now you can go out to the streets and scream STaND aND DeLiVeR! since you're a fully dressed Dandy Highwayman...

On my birthday I invited a couple of my friends over. While I was in the kitchen, making drinks, they found my Adam Ant records collection and when I got back I found all of them on the floor and my friends holding one of them, crying with laughter. "Look at that! he extended his eye brow!" "And look at that mole under his nose..." "What is that things he's wearing? it looks like a curtain I had hanged in my bedroom!" and laughing and laughing. Have you guess what it was? it's

• Rating: *****
• Era: Prince Charming
• Years: 81
• Notable things: A blue velvet classy jacket, silver trousers, three stripes on the right cheek: red, blue, red. High black leather boots.
• What do you have to find and wear in order to be a Prince Charming?
• A navy blue velvet jacket. It has to be very long in a sort of 17th century figure.
• A 70s style blouse, black with golden stripes, fluffy sleeves
• Silver trousers (tights?), light blue wide belt.
• High, very high boots. Gotta be leather, with a large buckle on them.
• MaKe-uP:
• A little heart above the left eye brow. Blue outline, red inside.
• Three stripes on the right cheek: red, blue, red.
• Draw one sideburn, on the left cheek, not straight like the Ant Warrior's, but curled.
• A little mole above the lip, left of the nose.
• Extend your right eyebrow upwards and use a violet eye shadow to fill the gap between it and the eye. Use violet eyeshadow on the left eye as well.
• Use a red\pink lipstick and brush it with a tad of lipgloss.
• HaiR:
• I think it'll be too much for me to ask you to braid your hair with pearls like Ads did. I think it'll be the best of you'd just do a little pony-tail on top of your head. I think that people will get the idea.
• *oPT* If you have long hair you can also try to make a real long pony-tail on the left\back of your head, and use some golden rubber bands to hold it.
• Now, don't you ever stop being dandy showing me you're handsome, Prince Charming!

When I just started with this whole Ant mania, I used to sit a lot in front of VH1 and wait for them to play Adam Ant. Since I didn't knew how relatively unknown he is I was actually offended when I saw that they didn't play any of Adam's videos on an 80s weekend once. Anyways, as I was sitting in front of the television, talking with two of my friends, one of them quickly said "aNTeMiSS! hurry! VH1! now! Adam Ant!" quickly I switched to VH1 and saw my favorite singer in a weird, weird outfit... "Is that a pink belly shirt he's wearing?..." asked my friend, bursting in laughter. If you haven't guessed yet, the costume I'm talking about is

• Rating: **
• Era: Friend Or Foe
• Years: 82
• Notable things: A blue (navy blue) jacket, a short skin colour blouse tied at the edges, brown leather trousers, yellow leather boots.
• What do you have to find and wear in order to be a Goody Two Shoes?
• The navy blue jacket. If I could find a way to describe it, I would, but just make sure it has large silver buttons. And if it doesn't, it doesn't matter too much.
• A pink\skin colour blouse. The sleeves must be short, and it has to be tied to a knot right above the belly-button.
• On it, take a black bend and tie it like the Boy Scouts do.
• Brown leather trousers, *oPT* on them a white pistol's belt, with two pockets for two pistols.
• Yellow leather boots, as tacky is possible and on them *oPT* tie two red bends
• MaKe-uP:
• Here Adam makes our lives easy and uses nothing but a blue eye shadow and lip-gloss.

All of the female Ant fans that are among us, will agree that there's only one outfit that they wouldn't mind tearing off Adam, on the contrary... they'd be happy to. This outfit is taken from an album called

• Rating: ***
• Era: Strip
• Years: 83
• Notable things: A white fluffy blouse with long sleeve edges, LEATHER TROUSERS... high leather boots, extremely sexy look... *sigh* hmmmmmm. Right :)
• What do you have to find and wear in order to have the Strip look?
• A white blouse, long sleeved and make sure the sleeves them selves have a very long "tails"
• Leath... yeah, you get the point :)
• A black jacket with fluffy shoulders
• Black gloves
• *oPT* A pair of high boots (that reach your thy), leather, black.
• The sexiest look you can find
• MaKe-uP:
• None!
• AND AGAIN... if you can't find the blouse, the jacket, the pants, whatever, you can wear a pilot's (or machinist, whatever you call it) overall, open the zipper and walk around with you hands covering your... uh... playboys. :) Heh...

Have you found a cool way to do an Ant costume? you think I should post it? you have any questions? I think I'm the one you should share them with...