Thread: Dr. Horrible Costume Lab Coat?

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Anyone seen the Dr. Horrible sing a long blog? Check it out if not, its on itunes. Anyway, i love his lab coat and would love to find one for a mad scientist costume. I can find the gloves, goggles and boots etc. but that coat he wears is hard to track down. I've done quit a bit of research online and have found similar styles but not quite right still. So, just wondering if this forum is the place to ask. Anybody have ideas? Might just have to get the closest one and modify it.

Have you seen this?
Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on DVD and iTunes Costumes

That is the closest found item I am aware of. The actual coat is believed to be vintage, so finding a current match will be rather difficult.

Here someone is working on a pattern.
Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on DVD and iTunes Message Board

To all who read this,

I, the Kaufeedrinker (arrogant sounding, ain't it?), have found a most excellent pattern to use for Dr. Horrible's (white or red) Labcoat. Coincidentally, it is the "Neo/Morpheus" coat pattern from Simplicity (pattern #5386), available at any quasi-decent fabric store (or, if they haven't done away with the fabric section yet, your local wal-mart). Best part to use is the "Neo" part (the coat would have to be shortened from ankle length to knee/2-3 inches above knee length). There's also modified instructions that someone wrote up. Search "dr. horrible lab coat pattern" in google, and pick the first link, begins with Quesa7. I'll post a link in a bit, soon as I get permission to do so.

The Kaufeedrinker again. Here's the link. Hope it goes through.

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it may say "adult content", but trust me when I say that the only "risque" thing is a guy dressed up like neo and morpheus on the cover of the pattern.

I love Dr. Horrible...

kaufeedrinker - good googling! That looks like a great modification to the pattern, and anyone with decent sewing skills (or skillz) could put that together.

try this Mad Scientist Adult Costume or Long White Lab Coat - Mad Scientist Lab Coat Doctor Dentist Occupational Costume Halloween

Digitsy, your ideas are good if you are doing a general, all-purpose mad scientist motif. However, there are many of us who are looking for a "low" cost (sometimes the fabric isn't on sale) as-close-to-photo-perfect version of a costume we see. As there is no (at least I have not found it yet) direct pattern or Dr. Horrible coat source less than $125, we have to make it ourselves. The "Mad Scientist" coat you link to is NOT, in many important ways, the Dr. Horrible coat, and I would never stoop to wearing that when I dress up as Dr. Horrible for conventions and Halloween. No offense to you, but it is not what many of us are looking for. The Dr. Horrible coat has buttons on only the right shoulder and directly under the armpit. Not on both shoulders and on the front, below the shoulder.

I see its been a year since this post but still not much info is out there about a cheap and easy Dr. Horrible costume. You guys are doing some great searching though. I ended up going with a mad scientist costume you can buy at most any of the halloween stores out there. Its pretty similar to Dr. Horrible but i decided to work the Mad Scientist part a little more. I bought welding goggles and spray painted them silver. Bought rubber boots at target. I was happy with how it turned out.

This is what i came up with. I really liked the wig i found too!

My best friend is obsessed with dr. horrible's sing along blog. She actually made me watch it last night with her and i really liked it. Thanks for posting this originally and to everyone for the good ideas. I'm gonna pass this along to her as i'm sure it will be a definite for her halloween costume.