Thread: Need HELP with Inglourious Basterds Costume

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Hello!

After days of research on internet, where I found everything but the answer I needed, I am looking for help here. I really hope you can help me!!

I wanted to create a halloween costume (well, to be true I would wear it in february as in Europe we don't have halloween but carneval) like this:

http://www.whatsyourobsession.com/im...s-figure-2.jpg

I tried the search function of the forum by typing Aldo Raine, Basterds, Inglourious Basterds, but I didn't find something

I am a student, so my budget is low, unfortunately. Hope someone could help me to put together a costume that would be as close as possible to Brad Pitt's costume shown in the link and maybe also as cheap as possible

Thank you very much!!

Corduroy pants from a Thrift shop
Surplus military leg warmers, or look at dance supply, or cut the sleeves off a large sweater
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=504864
Belt from thrift shop
For the scarf, you could just cut up a shirt and wrap it around your neck.
That jacket is probably going to be hard to find cheap. It looks like an early P-Coat but the color seems wrong. The P-Coats of that era were blue, but more of a midnight blue. That looks to be Air Force blue. You might be able to find a greatcoat that is approximately the correct shape and color and hem it to be a shorter coat. There may also be a similar coat used by another military you could pick up.

Hi DeathDealer!

Thank you really much for your help, it's great!! I am looking for some stuff on ebay, maybe I find the right one there? Just another question, which colour has Brad Pitt's trousers? Is it grey or green?!

I thought they looked brown. You may want to find some screen caps though, as the reference picture you posted appears to be for an action figure. That would help get the correct colors.

In both these shots the color looks to be much darker. And in the first picture the texture on his lapel looks wrong for a peacoat.
http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/75...page=mediaFull
http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/75...page=mediaFull

Here you can see he does not appear to have a military peacoat because the buttons are not solid colored with anchors on them. This could also explain the texture on the lapel.
http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/75...page=mediaFull

He also appears to have flap pockets and slash pockets (on the action figure), a US peacoat appears to only has the slash pockets.

Since I imagine he is supposed to be in civilian clothes at that point you could probably save some money by getting a civilian version of a peacoat. If you want a high quality coat for winter you might want to spring for the military version.

Here is more information that you probably wanted to know about the Peacoat.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showt...PEACOAT-DATING

Hi! Thank you really much for your great help!!

I found this one:

http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

It's a (dark) brown civilian pea coat, it should come very close to the original piece in the film.

What about the pants? Which colour do they have? Sometimes they seem brown, then again grey?!

Julen, I think the pea coat you found looks right.

Thanks savagehaunter - but what about the pants?!

Aeropostale Wool Pea Coat Winter Jacket
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Aeropostale-...item61cb04469b

I'd say brown more than grey.

Thank you very much guys!!!

Now I am only looking for the pants, I can't find them