This Homemade Bride of Frankenstein Costume became the largest undertaking costume wise I’ve encountered, from my initial sketches to finished product it took 60+ hours. It’s also the thing I’m proudest of! I made everything, including the wig, the rest of the costume involves everything from working nuts and bolts (I was bolted into costume … Read more
This year I was Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd. I studied several photographs of her costume and tried to recreate it as close as possible (even down to red and black pantaloons – see small inserted picture). I do all of my own sketching, draft my own patterns and do all of the sewing. The … Read more
We went to see Nanny McPhee Returns at the movies and afterwards my 4 year old daughter said ‘that is who I want to be for Halloween!’. I was so glad that she didn’t want to be a princess or a fairy again so I got right to work on this homemade Nanny McPhee Halloween … Read more
Halloween is my favorite day of the year, so I am always trying to out do the year before. Hoping to be a real stand out I watched every horror movie I could find until I found my Tippy inspiration. Lucky me, I have the perfect outfit for that! I bought this suit 8 years … Read more
My son had just watched the “Little Shop of Horrors” movie, and decided he wanted to be Seymour while holding the plant Audrey II- like in the scene where he goes to the radio station for an interview by John Candy. You cant see his arm very good from the picture, but his right arm … Read more
I thought it was high time for a unique and totally different Halloween costume. So, this year I created my Sharktopus costume – half shark, half octopus! It was a big hit! I once saw a movie on Sci-Fi titled Sharktopus. Sci Fi geeks out there might remember it! Anyway, it inspired my Sharktopus Halloween … Read more
This Mothra Costume is a 12 ft wing span on each side of body, total 24 ft. Painted canvas wings, fake fur material body. Head plastic formed, head mounted to bike helmet, feather antenne. I am a 6’2″ man inside body. Wings can move in flying motion. Included are the 2 mothra faries from the … Read more
My friend and I decided in honor of the final installment of the Saw franchise coming out this year to go as our favorite characters from the previous films. I decided to construct the Venus Fly Trap from Saw 2 Halloween costume idea. After looking at numerous screen caps from the movie, I constructed my … Read more
Our Homemade Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett Couple Costume was formulated the day before Halloween and could not have come out better! Ransacking various local Goodwill Superstores we were able to locate the pieces we needed in addition to pieces we implemented from home. For Sweeney Todd: From the Goodwill Superstore we located a woman’s … Read more
I decided to be Alan from the Hangover for Halloween seeing as it is probably the funniest movie of all time (in my opinion), and it wasn’t one of those cheap-looking costumes everyone would buy from the store. I first started my pursuit of the homemade Alan from the Hangover costume with finding the T-Shirt. … Read more
I love Garth from Wayne’s World so I decided on a Garth from Wayne’s World Costume. I got the jeans, the squared shirt and the cap in a Thrift store. My friends gave me the frames, some old pair of sneakers and I just grabbed some random T shirt of a band that I like. … Read more
I have wanted to construct a Columbia Rocky Horror Picture Show Costume for quite a number of years, and this year I was finally able to. The costume is based on what the character Columbia wore in the very beginning of the film and is composed of many parts: a gold sequin top hat, red … Read more