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
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
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 daughter is 7 and decided that this year she wanted to be Cruella De Ville for Halloween. Since they don’t make this costume in her size, I knew that it would have to be homemade, even though I am not a good sewer. She was very excited throughout the preparation and thrilled with her … Read more
This Homemade Cruella Deville Costume is my best costume so far. I took an old black dress (they’re always good for something) and sewed faux fur around the edges and painted on black spots. I bought a long string of fake pearls and borrowed the white gloves. I also made the cigarette holder by painting … Read more
This was SUCH a fun costume to make! I bought the black dress from Urban Planet ($20) and the fake fur trim from Fabric Land at $6/meter. I bought 2 1/2 meters but didn’t use it all. You’d be safe with just 2m. It was pretty thick so I cut it in half to sew … Read more
My friend threw a 101 Dalmatian party. Only those dressed as a Dalmatian were let in. With over 200 confirmed guests on Facebook, this party had dozens upon dozens of Dalmatians running around throughout the night. This event occurred in the town of Isla Vista, home to the most notorious Halloween celebration, west of the … Read more
All of our Cruella and Dalmatians Group Costume was homemade. For the Dalmatians we bought white dresses from American apparel, bought black velvet fabric that we cut into thousands of circles and used double sided fabric tape to adhere them to the plain white dresses. The ears were old headbands, pipecleaners and excess fabric we … Read more
We wanted to be something very obvious but did not want to buy our costumes or borrow someone else’s. We thought of doing Disney villains but figured it might be too common. We liked Cruella so we decided to to a Cruella and her Dalmatians Group Costume because we have not seen that combination together. … Read more
I loved portraying Cruella Deville. She was a super fun and feisty character. I had people asking to take pictures with me all night. I watched the 101 Dalmatians cartoon lots of times to get Cruella’s voice and mannerisms down. I knew the white fur coat would be the hardest to find but I was … Read more
I wanted my daughter to be something different this year so, after thinking about it, my sister and I came up with a Homemade Cruella DeVille Halloween Costume. My sister made the tutu and added black felt polk-a-dots to the white side. I already had black leotards and we turned one of my old red … Read more