Thread: how do you dress props??

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When you make a prop, whether it's a witch or a scarecrow or what have you, how do you dress them?? Do you just get a couple of yards a fabric and cut a hole for it's head and drape it?? How do you do arms??
I don't sew.
Our local thrift store, savers, has full length black hooded robes with long sleeves for 9.99 and I'm wondering if that would be the best way to go then just embellish them a little.

I'd just use old clothes, or clothes from the thrift store...why go through the hassle when you can use what ya got?

I should specify I am making 3 witches circling a cauldron with one of them stirring it.

I sew, so I cut out a basic form for my witch's dress, but didn't hem it or anything. I got a cheapy black sweatshirt, and stuffed it with plastic bags and attached long gloves to the ends of the sleeves with safety pins (the gloves were stuffed with wire and bent into shape around my witch's cauldron stirrer). the skirt was full enough that I didn't need to build legs. The entire witch's body is made on a wood support (a tripod that has a crossbeam to fill out the shoulders).

Even if you don't sew, you can still cut a front side and a back side and use iron-on hemming interfacing or even fabric glue to attach the front to the back.

You can get some dresses or such at the thrift shops and dye them black.

You are in Boise you can try Deseret Industries as well. It's an excellent thrift store.

Here is the Boise location:

Deseret Industries
10740 Fairview Ave
Boise, ID 83713

I also just use old clothes.

We just go to local agencies (Salvation Army and stuff like that) or we use old clothes hanging around. Works great, that way if you have to destroy them, no worries.

If I was dressing witches......I have to use my wifes clothes! LOL!

I do sew but I dont like too so I bought a couple yards of black material and hot glued it. It was going to be outside and have gauze type material over it anyway so I just cut a hole for the head, draped it over, glued down the sides, then cut wide strips for the sleeves and glued them to the shoulders and then glued down the sleeve.
It stayed outside in the weather for a month, held up really well and Im using it again this yr.

Full-length robes for 10 bucks? I'd be tempted to go that way as a time-saver at that price. More time to work on other stuff that way!