Well my daughter just loved the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas and of course she wanted to be Sally for Halloween but after much searching, the store-bought costumes were just not as cool as I thought they should be, so I decided I would make it.
I went to the fabric stores and very carefully picked out all the correct colored velvets to make her dress. I sewed each piece in the exact shape and location as Sally’s dress and then using an old nightgown of my daughters as the pattern I sewed all the pieces into a dress. (kind of like she did in the movie!) Then I hand sewed yarn to look like the hand stitching around all of the pieces.
I then painted tights for her arms and legs with “stitching” and painted her face to match using traditional theater paints.
I used waistband elastic and sewed the yarn to it to create her signature red hair.
It was the talk of the neighborhood and town that is for sure! She got so many compliments on it. She was the happiest trick or treater as Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas!
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this costume is wonderful! my daughter is having a nightmare before Christmas birthday, at a pumpkin farm and she wants to be sally for Halloween they don’t make a costume in her size and I’m not crafty like this. I would purchase this costume in a heartbeat if I could!
Can you go into more detail on the wig? I want to do the same costume for my 10 yr. old this year… she loves the movie and the character! Thanks so much and great job!
This is the most adorable, and most accurate Sally I’ve ever seen! Good job!
I love how you made it! I agree the store bought version is not so great! I have been thinking about making one on my own for several years now…
I plan on making an adult sized one for me hopefully by next Halloween! thanks for the ideas on sewing our own Sally costume!
I am so excited to make it!
thats awsome she looks so proud you did a great job:)