Take a look at these cool homemade Beauty Queen and Pageant Contestant Costumes shared with us by costume enthusiasts from around the world. Along with the costumes here, you’ll also find loads of homemade costume ideas and DIY Halloween costume inspiration for your next costume project. Enjoy!
We have an annual sister’s weekend every October and get together in a town in Western Michigan. We have discovered an adult costume parade in the town where we were staying and have participated in it the last two years. It’s a blast. There are four of us sisters and we decided on a theme … Read more
This Miss Congeniality costume is by far the best costume I’ve ever made. It came out of no where, and I never thought I’d actually go for it, but I did. It takes some skill to sew a dress but I tried to remember what I could from a few years ago. I found a pattern … Read more
The TV show Toddlers and Tiara’s was my inspiration for this Halloween Pageant princess costume. To achieve this look I took an old floor length bridesmaid dress, took it to a local tailor shop and had them pin up the under the corset and sew it to stay. I glued over 300 gemstones on with … Read more
A group of us girls throw a Halloween party every year, which started 4 years ago. This is the second year. We were all different Miss USA contestantsand these are our Miss USA Contestants Costumes. We each were the following states: Miss New York, Miss Virgina, Miss Florida, Miss Hawaii, Miss Alaska, Miss Nevada, Miss … Read more
My sister came up with the idea of the Battling Beauty Queens and we all loved it. First we went to thrift stores and found gowns that we would not mind ripping or cutting up. I found temporary tattoos of scrapes and cuts at the costume shop and we used plenty of those and makeup … Read more
I have been making my own costumes for a few years now and my motto is…”The bigger the headpiece, the better”. Every year I try to come up with some kind of elaborate headpiece that no one else would think of. One year, I came up with pageant costumes. Not your normal everyday pageant but … Read more
This was a dress given to us by someone at a rummage sale (it was a homecoming gown), my mother took it for my daughter, as she wanted to be Miss USA 2017 (since she is 7). You don’t need many costume designs to create this persona. She already had the pink bodysuit worn underneath … Read more
To make this Miss America Costume I started with a womans dress I found at a thrift store.(I have included the before picture). Dress- cut the sleeves off and modify the style to make it more “stylish”. I used silver ribbon that looked almost like a chain to hide the parts of the dress I … Read more