Thread: Chair costume help!

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I am in the process of making a costume that looks like a chair when the wearer sits down.
My issue...... one that I have seen, had 2 places where the person can see out. ( 2 eye holes ) They are disguised a little to look like stitching or quilting on the fabric. I want to have a rip in the fabric so that it will look old and tattered. If I do that then you will definantly see the holes in the foam.

I am thinking that if I have the foam to be black and then put a cream colored scrim type fabric over that then you may not see the holes but the wearer can see out.

I want the scrim to be cream colored so that it is the color that foam normally is in furniture.

I had a piece of thin cream fabric and held it over the holes in the foam and the holes showed up like a sore thumb!!! Thats why I thought that if the foam behind the scrim was black .. it would blend in with the holes ?????

What do you guys think? Would this work out? Or do you have any other ideas?

I finally got my chair costume done.
Its actually FANTASTIC ! We had the first weekend of our haunt last weekend and it scared people BIGTIME ! Visitors did NOT expect it to be a real person under there.

If any of you have a haunted house and want a startle factor.... this is a good one!

A picture sure would be nice!

Glad you got it to work. Have any photos?

Chair costumes are effective, they got a 6'2" 350lb ex-football player to run out of the room yelling a few choice words...wait that person was me sorry

He he..... Were you at ours?

I promise to pics!

Foam, a little sewing and a lot of hot glue!

Thought I would add.... the upholstery fabric had a thin white fabric attached to the back of it. It may have been like an interfacing material that was ironed on. Anyway, I scratched that stuff off at the eye area. The weave of the fabric was then just loose enough that the wearer could see out. I'm glad that I didn't have to do the scrim thing! Anyway, I completely cut out the foam where the wearers face would be and it worked like a charm!

I had to find a shorter stool for them to sit on so that the skirt of the chair would be low enough that people entering the room wouldnt see the wearers legs!