I fitted and painted the jacket and added frayed cording around the lapels and fancy trim around the cuff. All the buttons are mismatched. I added dragonfly applique and silver pendants on left breast of jacket. Tied ribbons to extra large safety pin an pinned by left pocket and pleated and sewed on purple satin … Read more
My family decided to be the characters from Alice in Wonderland. I chose the Cheshire Cat Costume. I bought the dress since I didn’t have the time to make it. I looked for a pink and purple striped dress and found one at wet seal. I then made the tail (which is my favorite part … Read more
This Mad Hatter Costume was made from striped trousers, waistcoat and blazer which were all bought at the Thrift store. White shirt worn underneath. Plain top hat was bought and spare fabric, peacock feather and the 10/6 sign were added with a glue gun. Crochet doilies were bought, cut in half and sewn into the … Read more
I made this whole Mad Hatter homemade costume and make up by myself here in Chile, with contacts and all the stuff. Here in Chile it’s very difficult to buy a wig or scarwax, for example. There are no professional costume stores, so you can’t get spirit gum or scar wax. I’m studying (sorry for … Read more
I didn’t want to do your ordinary Beetlejuice so I chose the scene in the movie where he spikes Gena Davis. I bought moss from an art store along with spirit gum and skin latex to apply my prosthetic. The clothes all came from shopping at numerous thrift stores, I couldn’t seem to find the … Read more
I decided to create a homemade Beetlejuice costume for Halloween (I couldn’t bring myself to buying the costume for $60). I took a black suit and used white duct tape to make the stripes. I got a pink shirt since I liked it in the animated series. For the makeup I paled my face added … Read more
The hardest part of this Homemade Miss Argentina Adult Halloween Costume? The collar cape! This thing was a pain, I finally came up with something that worked out wonderfully, taps plastics in San Mateo, CA. I bought a poster board of thin plastic, and sewed material to it, it was perfect after numerous tries and … Read more
My sister and I have always wanted to be Oompa Loompas for Halloween, so this year we finally did it! We are both short which made this Homemade Oompa Loompa Costumes even more perfect. To make this costume we went to a variety of stores and bought brown turtlenecks and socks, white capri pants, thick … Read more
This is my Homemade Oompa Loompa Costume. For the hair: I bought a blond wig, cut it, rolled it up, bobby pinned it, and sprayed it with hair spray and green “hair” paint. I bought a brown turtle neck, bought some white fabric paint to paint the stripes on. I purchased white gloves, brown socks … Read more
This is Violet Beauregarde (the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory). It’s one of my favorite costumes I’ve ever worn and one of the easiest to do! The dress was a lucky thrift store find. I’m not much of a seamstress, so I decided to check around for a suitable dress. On … Read more
This Grinch costume is 100% handmade, no sewing machine used. Dad made everything using only the faux fur, some wiring (for the hair) and glue. The nose was sculpted in clay and out of that a mold was made and then the latex nose. The makeup used is just the green and black eye pencil.
My son’s favorite book is Green Eggs and Ham. His name happens to be Sam so he decided he wanted to be Sam-I-am. I thought it would be easy to find the costume on-line to buy. No such luck. I decided to make it. I sewed the yellow fabric and cut the frills at the … Read more