Coolest Homemade Costumes that Cost Less than $20 to Make
I bought a simple tan dress at the Goodwill store for this Pocahontas costume ($7). Cut of one shoulder strap, measured and sewed to fit me. Took an old white men’s undershirt (free) and cut into fringes for the bottom and sewed. Then I cut a belt from a brown shirt from the Thrift shop ($1) and pinned it one. … Read more
I know I’m probably showing my age, but I have some pretty fond memories of Bad B-style superhero movies as a kid. (Ahh, the 80’s and early 90’s.) One of my favorite obscure superheros is Tank Girl, the foul-mouthed, smoking, drinking, mutant kangaroo-loving bad a**, who fights to save the environment/world agaisnt all types of … Read more
My husband loves superheroes! OK OK … so do I. So, for our first cosplay attempt at last year’s Comic Con, we decided on a super simple (and cheap!) Clark Kent in the middle of “becoming” Superman costume for him. (I was Tank Girl – you can check out my other submission for a how-to on my costume!) What … Read more
We Go Together Like Peas and Carrots I love to be active but I also love dress up, make people laugh and have a good time. So when a friend of mine and I signed up for the Grand Rapids Urban Adventure Race (similar to the Amazing Race but on a smaller city wide scale), … Read more
As a member of the Grand Rapids Original Swing Society that meets every Tuesday night and is open to the public, we created a costume pairing for an evening’s dance that was dubbed as Prom Night. My friend and I love to have a good time, and don’t have normal or reserved senses of humor … Read more
I originally wanted to do Han Solo and the Slave Princess Leia with my dog being Princess Leia in a little gold bikini. This was going to be for a Halloween party at my home. But then we decided to go out instead so I had to scrap the princess puppy. I found the white … Read more
We purchased for our Snap-Crackle-Pop Girl Group Costume two XXL men’s t-shirts, in red and royal blue, then an XL goldenrod yellow button-up men’s shirt, and went to town cutting them up! We acted as each other’s seamstresses, cut down the sides of the tees, made slits, and tied the side slits together one by one. … Read more
I love this sexy Pinata costume and had a lot of fun making it! I got so many complements the whole night! Here is what you need to create this Piñata Costume: 1. Buy a tightly fitted dress (I bought a dress slip cover) I bought mine at a small boutique but I believe they … Read more
This past Halloween I decided to be a tree. Then, I thought, wouldn’t it be funny to be a tree that had been toilet papered? Many of us have been either on the giving or receiving side of that classic high school prank. My family’s house and trees were toilet papered once (to both my horror and … Read more
My brother is tall and skinny. His friend is short and bigger. They realized the best costume was clearly the Blues Brothers. They both were in a band in middle school (they were high school freshmen at the time), and luckily, neither had a huge growth spurt over the summer, so they both used their … Read more
First I found an orange tight sleeve tshirt from American Apparel, and green tights also from American Apparel. The red Uggs I’ve had for a while but any red shoes would do. This purple/pink belt was from Forever 21 and I just cut out the yellow M with construction paper. I had purple eye shadow and practiced … Read more
As a group we decided to make our own Teenage Mutant Nija Turtle costumes for Halloween 2012. Making the tops and buying the ribbon were easy. However creating our shells was more tricky. After many different ideas using such things as a baking tray we decided to use a nibble platter dish and glued it … Read more