When looking for DIY costume inspiration from movies, 101 Dalmatians costumes are an iconic choice. Not only are the spotted pups adorable, but for a terrifyingly evil costume, Cruella De Vil is a true winner.
I’m not sure why movies targeted at children need to be quite so chilling, but that’s for another discussion. On the positive side, villains do provide with excellent costume details. Perhaps that is why they are so much fun when it comes to homemade costumes.
Take Cruella’s hair. The black and white sides are done fantastically well in this section. Her cigarette holder is the perfect prop for a scathing Cruella look.. I can see the appeal of acting like evil incarnate for one day.
The title characters themselves are found here as babies in adorable little get ups. This costume is also great adult for group costumes. The larger the better!
Have fun looking through this section and creating your own good or evil 101 Dalmatians costume.
My sister and I love to dress up for Halloween. Every year when my kids would go trick or treating my sister and I would dress up. We would get some stares but we had so much fun with it. Once my kids got older we still wanted to dress up. Luckily we were invited … Read more
This Dalmatian Puppy costume was my first year attempting to do a homemade costume–so please keep that in mind! Materials used: white long-sleeved leotard, black fabric paint, small and medium sized sponges (round-shaped for spots), head band, black felt, fuzzy, “fur” material (purchased at JoAnn’s fabric store), less than a yard (used just for tail … Read more
From Disney’s 101 Dalmatians this is a Cruella DeVille Mobile Child Halloween Costume and one very unlucky dalmatian puppy. They are riding in a DeVil mobile. This is a family affair Gram made the costumes, mom fixed up the salvaged car, Papa mounted steering wheel and horn and dad was the muscle and pulled the … Read more
I decided to go for a Villain at my own Heroes and Villains party! The dress was easy and I added gloves and a zebra print belt. I made wrist cuffs and a long ‘Dalmation’ print stole I made from fun-fur. The hair was the trickiest, I bought a wig originally but this was so … Read more
I created this Homemade Cruella DeVille costume in 2008. I LOVE Halloween and always start early, I wanted to be something scary and recognizable. So I started at Value Village and found a black satin sweetheart neckline dress, I bought it thinking I knew I would use it for something. Finally my Granny came up … Read more
I was in a little thrift store in Guthrie, OK, last spring when I came across some white pumps with black polka dots. This inspired me to become a Cruella Deville Costume from 101 Dalmatians for our Halloween Bunco. I purchased Dalmatian colored fleece and made the cape. I found stuffed Dalmatian puppies at a … Read more
The first thing (and the hardest thing to find)for this Cruella DeVille Costume Idea was the fur coat, very important for Cruella De Vil. We searched second hand stores and garage sales until we found just the right one for a good price—we figured it would have been ridiculous to pay hundreds of dollars for … Read more
I made my zombie homemade Cruella DeVille costume as part of a themed fancy dress of horror Disney outfits. I simply wore a black dress and stockings, red gloves and fur coat. For my hair I cut off pieces of a blonde wig, back-combed them and gripped them into my hair, then sprayed the whole … Read more
I hardly ever dress up for Halloween but since I have children and grandchildren who like dressing up I decided “Grandpa and Grandma” had better do something this year. I thought I would really like to be Cruella but I didn’t think my husband would go for being the “dog.” To my surprize he was … Read more
The idea to be Cruella deVil and a dalmatian started as a joke between me and my friend, Brett, but the more we thought about it, the more plausible and original it seemed. So we got started on our Homemade Cruella DeVille Costume. For the dalmatian, he bought a white sweatshirt, but had trouble finding … Read more
This Cruella de Ville costume was very easy and inexpensive to put together. I spent about $10 on the entire thing and also used things I already had. The hardest part was finding a perfect fur coat. Luckily a friend of mine lent me her mother’s coat but I’m sure you could find one at … Read more
My niece is not the kind of kid who is happy with being a simple princess or Hannah Montana look-a-like. No, she was set on a Cruella De Ville costume. We looked and looked for a costume and they just don’t exist for children and she was too small to make an adult costume smaller … Read more