This is a headless clown costume I thought up about a couple of months before Halloween 2008. Originally it was to be a large inflated fat suit with the clown mask, but I couldn’t find a fan to keep the costume inflated well enough yet fit in my budget, or a fat costume in my … Read more
Materials needed: For Costume: Tan twin sized bed sheet ($2 from WalMart) 3 brown t-shirts (different shades of brown) ($1 each from thrift store) Dark brown felt ($0.25 from fabric store) For Cage: Garden cart PVC pipe ($5) Black spraypaint Posterboard in red, yellow and blue Iridescent wrapping paper ($1 from dollar store) Foil circles … Read more
I undertook making this Pennywise the Clown Costume with the aim of getting it nearest the original as possible. With no experience on a sewing machine I perhaps ambitiously purchased my clown costume pattern and sourced the best matching material I could find and cut the sections to size. In the end the sewing side … Read more
We kept the Love Bug Car we made for Sarah’s Hippie Halloween costume the previous year and wanted to recycle it somehow. Trying to come up with an idea of how to use a small car, we thought of a Circus Clown in a Clown Car Wheelchair Costume. The car was already cut out from … Read more
Materials needed: Nightgown ($2 from thrift store) Beard ($4 from costume store) This year our theme was “Circus.” My sister was our bearded lady. This Homemade Bearded Lady Costume is the easiest costume in the world to put together. We found a cheesy nightgown from a thrift store and she wore a beard that matched … Read more
After seeing the film, as a kid, I fell in love with the movie! One of my favorite actors ‘Tim Curry’ and also loving the design of the costume, I decided to make my own Stephen King’s IT – Pennywise the Clown Costume. I was given an old Singer sewing machine, for free, so I … Read more
I was sick and tired of the cute or slutty Halloween costumes being sold in stores, so I decided to get creative and make my own Homemade Scary Clown Halloween Costume. I took my black graduation gown, bought a black afro (because I said black afro, some of my friends thought I was being a … Read more
Here is my Pennywise The Clown Costume from Halloween 2010. I decided to do this costume as I knew it would be a real challenge and as you can see a lot of work and money went into it. The costume went down a storm on the Halloween night out that I go on with … Read more
Look closely and you’ll see a little “baby balloon” being held by the clown. The Clown costume was made by my Mother in Law for my husband when he was a little boy (early 80’s). I just added the balloons. My son is being held by a snugli underneath an oversized black sweater. I wore … Read more
I have always been told this would be the supreme costume for me, and it was so easy to make! I found the dress at a local thrift shop, chopped it off to a mini dress length because it was easier than makin pants. I found the shirt as well then drew the smiley faces … Read more
This was part of a Hollywood project for college, I decided to try costume designing. I based the Killer Clown costume on “The Red Triangle Circus Gang” from my favorite movie Batman Returns. The costume had to be made in, or less than 24 hours. I began by buying all the materials, I then made … Read more
It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted to be for Halloween, but it finally came to me. A Homemade Mime Costume would be a unique costume plus it would stand out from all the others. I was just looking through my clothes and when I found a black and white … Read more