1 post tagged “halloween costume”
Disclaimer: Halloween was over 4 months ago and these photos are not even from last year's Halloween because last year Mathilda refused to wear any of the cute costumes we had at our disposal. She nixed this adorable home-made costume, a princess dress, a Mexican dress, a Moroccan outfit and finally settled on wearing her flight jacket (a Nick purchase that I think I mentioned previously) with her pink Elmer Fudd style hat and we called her a "baby pilot." Unfortunately we forgot the wooden airplane which would have completed the outfit (sort of) but luckily no one refused her candy in spite of her weak Halloween costume. The stakes are high in this city when it comes to dressing up, as you can imagine with our enthusiastic gay population.
To the photos at hand, this costume was a big hit and fairly easy to make. I bought the black hooded jacket (though Mathilda was refusing to wear hats or hoods at the time so that part is not so important though you could glue cute eyeballs on it if you had a different kid), a couple pairs of black tights and black gloves, black pants and a black turtleneck. The pants and turtleneck aren't important but add to the blackness of the outfit. Anyway, cut the legs and feet off the tights and sew the gloves to one end of the tights. Stuff with something not too heavy but that will fill the tights and gloves out. I used newspaper. Sew other end of tights to the sides of the jacket or sweater of whatever you're using. Then the clever part is attaching the extra arms to the actual arm of the jacket. You have to leave a lot of slack between the arms. If you do this right (see attached photo for crappy but successful implementation) when the child raises his/her arms, the other arms also rise. We got a few "That's the best costume I've seen all night," when we were out trick-or-treating, which of course made me feel triumphant. Particularly because Nick had had a different strategy altogether on how to do this (involving hanger wires in the arms, etc.) which I vetoed.
Ahhh victory!
To the photos at hand, this costume was a big hit and fairly easy to make. I bought the black hooded jacket (though Mathilda was refusing to wear hats or hoods at the time so that part is not so important though you could glue cute eyeballs on it if you had a different kid), a couple pairs of black tights and black gloves, black pants and a black turtleneck. The pants and turtleneck aren't important but add to the blackness of the outfit. Anyway, cut the legs and feet off the tights and sew the gloves to one end of the tights. Stuff with something not too heavy but that will fill the tights and gloves out. I used newspaper. Sew other end of tights to the sides of the jacket or sweater of whatever you're using. Then the clever part is attaching the extra arms to the actual arm of the jacket. You have to leave a lot of slack between the arms. If you do this right (see attached photo for crappy but successful implementation) when the child raises his/her arms, the other arms also rise. We got a few "That's the best costume I've seen all night," when we were out trick-or-treating, which of course made me feel triumphant. Particularly because Nick had had a different strategy altogether on how to do this (involving hanger wires in the arms, etc.) which I vetoed.
Ahhh victory!
