Coolest Beetlejuice and Lydia Wedding Costume 6
by Rachel
(MN)
Homemade Beetlejuice and Lydia Wedding Costume
My husband and I decided to have a Beetlejuice and Lydia Wedding Costume from the wedding scene in the movie.
I got lucky and found a Swiss dot wedding gown from the 70s at an antique store in town. The only problem was that it was white and polyester, with gigantic sleeves. First step was to chop off the sleeves. Then I found out that it's incredibly hard to get dye to take to polyester so I ended up painting it red with acrylic paint and a textile medium that I had to apply with a sponge to 4 layers of lace individually so that they didn't stick together. I spray-painted the lining to match.
Then I decided to make my own hoop skirt to fill out the bottom of the dress. I went to Target and bought a hula hoop and sewed it inside of an old sheet, then put some elastic in the waist and had myself a hoop skirt. Last, I sewed up some arm warmers to match because it's cold in Minnesota at Halloween.
My husband's suit came from the Salvation Army's women's section (it was a ladies velvet pant suit), he got the ruffly shirt at the SA too. The bow tie was his and we went out and bought a wig for the hair/bald head.
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