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Coolest Homemade Hamburglar and Hamburger Couple Costume

Every year I force my husband to dress in a couple’s costume that I make. This year he came up with the idea to be one of his favorite childhood characters, the Hamburglar. I saw a picture of a crocheted hamburger dress on line and decided I would be a hamburger. I can’t crochet, but I can sew.

The Hamburglar costume was pretty simple to make. The hardest part was finding the correct size of striped fabric. I thought black and white stripes would be easy, but I had to scour the internet and place a special order to get the right one. I made the top and pants from the striped fabric. The cape was made from solid black and yellow cotton fabric.

I made the tie out of red fleece and cut out hamburger shapes from felt and glued them on the tie. For the accessories I found a pair of cheap red gloves at the fabric store and we used my husband’s cowboy hat with an added a strip of yellow fabric for Hamburglar hat. My husband bought hamburgers from McDonald’s on Halloween for his props.

For my hamburger costume I used an assortment of fabrics in different textures from my fabric stash. I used a dress pattern as my starting template and modified it into three sections to use for the buns and hamburger.

For the lettuce I made a ruffle and twisted it as I hand sewed it in place so it would have a 3D effect. I added orange triangles for the cheese and half circles of red fabric for the tomatoes. I hand sewed wooden beads to the top half of the dress for the sesame seeds.

For my accessories I found a box of toy food in the kids’ toy section that had french fries in it. I was very excited with my luck of finding them. I poked holes in the french fries to make a bracelet and earrings and glued some to a headband for my hair accessory.

On Halloween, when we out, you could tell the young from the old by their recognition of who we were.

Coolest Homemade Hamburglar and Hamburger Couple Costume

Coolest Homemade Hamburglar and Hamburger Couple Costume

Coolest Homemade Hamburglar and Hamburger Couple Costume

Coolest Homemade Hamburglar and Hamburger Couple Costume

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