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.
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
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
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
My daughter loves 101 Dalmatians, so this year she asked if she could have a Homemade Cruella DeVille Halloween Costume. I went to the store and bought a cape pattern and all the material to make the cape in a Dalmatian print. The cape had a red satin lining and black fur trim on the … Read more
We came up with the idea for this Cruella devil costume after watching the 101 Dalmatian movies. I bought at a local costume store a wig, two yards of the Dalmatian material, two long pieces of the red fur and two of the white fur and red tights. At the second hand store I found … Read more
The Skinned Dalmation was all made by Terry Meeneghan. I hand sewed the white furry fabric, after I painted spots on it. The only thing I purchased was the long underwear I dyed the muscle tone of a dog. I hand drew on the long underwear the muscle structure of a dog so it would … Read more
Pretty sure you can guess where the idea came from. My daughter loved the movie so much we decided to create a Cruella DeVille costume. I am not the best when it comes to sewing, but I love Halloween and I hate those store bought costumes. For the costume I bought about 1 1/2 yards … Read more
I am currently enrolled with an internship at Disney World in Florida, so I thought that for this year’s Halloween I’d stick with a Disney theme! After deciding to be Cruella, I had to figure out a way to make her come to life. The wig was originally an Einstein wig that I teased and … Read more
It all started on Allie’s 1st birthday on September 4th… Grandmom Joan gave her a black & white Dalmatian spotted coat as one of her gifts. Right away, I thought, “Allie will look like Cruella from 101 Dalmatians when she wears this!” A few weeks later, I was looking to buy a cute costume online … 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