My daughter was obsessed with Monster High but we both knew there would be a million Monster High characters and we wanted something more creative. So one day, as we were cleaning out an old closet at my paren’ts house, we found my mom’s old First Communion Dress. It was yellowed and tattered. After all, … Read more
My daughter Linda wants to be Hawk Girl this year so I started brainstorming as to how I was going to do this. I used pictures as reference and started immediately on the helmet. The helmet is finally done. Was a trick to put it together, looks good but it was a monstrosity to put … Read more
With all the Batman movies that came out, I decided to play it up a little bit and make the costume sexy but fun. I decided to dress up like the character two faced. I created the bustier, bra, and jacket. The body paint was professionally done. I got a regular blue dish glove and … Read more
For Halloween 2012, we were the Teen Titans. We were (from left to right) Raven, Beast Boy, Nightwing, Cyborg, Starfire and Robin. We got rave reviews (mostly from 12-year-old boys) and had such a great time! Titans, Go! Robin Materials: · Red t-shirt (sleeves cut off) · Green short-sleeved t-shirt · Green “superhero” gloves · … Read more
My daughter Victoria is modelling my interpretation of The Wonder Woman Costume. It was inspired by the original Linda Carter costume with the first eagle. I studied many photos of eagles to come up with my drawing I then separated it into three parts to make the pattern. I used gold lame added some cotton … Read more
Greetings! My name is Roberto, and I work as a freelance Teaching Artist of Drama and Vocal Music here in New York City. I have designed and fabricated some homemade costumes for a non-profit stage play that I am working to produce and direct with many of my teenager student actors over the summer. The play … Read more
The theme in our house last year was Batman Villains! I settled on Poison Ivy, my brother on The Scarecrow and my other bro and his friend couldn’t decide who would go as Bane, so they went as Double-Bane. So here’s how the costumes went: Poison Ivy: I bought 10ft of fake ivy on eBay … Read more
Wonder Woman! I found an old blue field hockey skirt at my local thrift shop which was my inspiration for my entire costume. For the stars on the skirt, I cut out starts from white duck tape and simply stuck them on to the skirt (was a quick fix for one night, but by the … Read more
I made this Poison Ivy costume to be in a Gotham City Sirens group with my friends, and I love this to pieces! I think I spent a total of around $50 on this because I used a lot of materials from home. The base of the bodysuit is a t-shirt sewed onto a pair … Read more
So This Renekton costume maybe took me about 6 or 7 months to make. It’s 8 feet tall and not too heavy. I worked on it off and on because I have a full time job that takes up a lot of my life. The whole Renekton costume is made up of EVA foam mats. … Read more
This is a Killer Croc costume I made. My son and I had a conversation back in February ’12 about what costumes we’d like to do for this Halloween. I know.. we plan ahead. He decided that Killer Croc would be the most challenging costume so that’s the one I should do. Also, you really … Read more
My costume is the armored Batman from the Batman versus Superman movie. My Love for Batman extends all the way into my childhood. Ever since a boy I wanted to become a superhero, fight crime and help others in need. Batman doesn’t have any superpowers but uses his extreme intellect and physical strength to outsmart … Read more