Greetings! My name is Roberto, and I work as a freelance Teaching Artist of Drama and Vocal Music here in New York City. I have designed and fabricated some homemade costumes for a non-profit stage play that I am working to produce and direct with many of my teenager student actors over the summer. The play … Read more
The theme in our house last year was Batman Villains! I settled on Poison Ivy, my brother on The Scarecrow and my other bro and his friend couldn’t decide who would go as Bane, so they went as Double-Bane. So here’s how the costumes went: Poison Ivy: I bought 10ft of fake ivy on eBay … Read more
Harley Quinn and Robin Costumes for Toddlers that didn’t look cheap or cheesy were hard to come by in 2014 without dropping a ton of money. These patterns were drafted using basic top and leggings patterns with custom measurements for each of my children. My daughter was 2yrs old but the size of 12-18 months … Read more
My oldest daughter is the one who started the batman villain theme. She is 8 years old and loves all the old batman movies. She chose poison ivy as her costume and that just triggered the rest of the family into dressing up too. I wanted to try and stick as close as possible to … Read more
I wanted to be something different this year so after going through a lot of ideas I finally came up with one I had never seen anyone do. The Riddler and Two Face. I love Batman (and Jim Carrey hence the Batman Forever look I was going for) and knew Two Face would be the … Read more
We were aiming for Arkham Asylum / Arkham City style Joker and Harley Quinn costumes and so we needed the following: For the Joker: Purple trousers Purple tailcoat Shirt Green bow tie Green hair dye For Harley Quinn: Red/black trousers Red/black gypsy top Red under bust corset Red and black hair dye Plus white face … Read more
I knew I wanted to be Poison Ivy for Halloween. Since my boyfriend and I always dress up together, he agreed to be Bane to complete the look! At first I thought I was just going to do this costume as fast and easy as possible. I originally had planned to just buy a green … Read more
We emulated the Two-Face from “Batman: The Animated Series.” THE SUIT: I ordered a little boy’s five piece suit from blacknbianco.com in white. It came pretty quickly, but I ordered it over a month in advance to assure we got it in time. I didn’t know what the best fabric paint was to use and … Read more
My friend and I by far had the best costumes of the night. When my friend chose to be the Joker, it wasn’t long before I thought of being the infamous 2 Face. Not only did over a hundred people ask to take pictures with us, we were literally celebrities. Girls would scream and flinch … Read more
For Halloween 2013, we went as a group of Batman characters. We were (from left) Penguin, Batman, Bane, Two-Face, Robin, and Poison Ivy. We had such a great time putting these together and everyone loved the result! We also created a Batmobile (1960s era) out of our garden cart. It’s made out of cardboard, red … Read more
I absolutely am a huge Batman fan… Like in love with him :) so I thought who else just loves batman and is obsessed? The Joker! So I decided to be the female joker! I love the character, but there are no good costumes out there for women. So I was on a mission to … Read more
This Halloween I created my first couples costumes! When my boyfriend and I first met this year we bonded over our love of video games. Together, we would play the villains and superheroes fighting game “Injustice.” After playing for a while we realized that he looked like the Joker! So, we came up with the … Read more