I've never really been into buying costumes. I prefer to add a touch of individuality to them by making them myself.
So here are two of my previous costumes I have designed and made. Feedback welcomed.
As 'Carrie', which is one of my all time favourite films.
It appears that Carrie's wig and Freddy's glove are premanufactured items. I have no problem with that - bits that can be purchased often add that pizzazz a homemade costume needs. Once or twice I've even built a costume around some snazzy item.
A lot of these things - masks, belts, large costume pieces, etc. - are made of vinyl. I've found that acrylic hobby paints stick to the vinyl quite well. You can do a custom paint job on a mask you got off the rack at Krogers and turn into something that would make Don Post proud. Same goes for weathering those vinyl costume pieces.
To my way of thinking, it's your idea that counts. How you realize it doesn't matter as long as nobody gets hurt!
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Mark McG. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I especially like the female Freddy and the rose on Carrie's wrist. I don't know if the flash makes you look so alive, freud, but maybe a little more make-up would help make you look more threatening or dead as the case may be.
I agree with Mark McG that it's O.K. to buy some of the accessories or the costumes as long as you put your own touches to them. I work at The Costume Shop and we sell a plethora of accessories, feathers, jewels, make-up, wigs, stockings, shoes, appliances, etc. to enhance costumes. The most fun we have is coming up with creative ways to 'custom modify' the accessories. Some people are horrified to change anything, and you can see it in their eyes. But there's alot of people just like the ones on HalloweenForum that love the challenge of making their costume their own and those are the costumes that are over the top!
I like your Carrie costume Freudstein, but would add much much much more blood on the dress.
The goriest, the best!
I would ideally have done, but I was short on time and fake blood!
Skulkin, the only things that I didn't do myself was the Freddy Glove(again, short on time and accessories to use), and the wig. I was actually planning to dye my hair, but the length and texture weren't right, so I had to add fake blood to the wig. Everything else was done by my own two hands, straight from my mind. Nothing came from a costume shop.
2 pervious costumes of mine......
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