Needed: One roll of duct tape for two boots (or possibly two -- it will be very close with one roll) and two old shoes!

A couple of plastic bags.

Before and After -- Simple Wedge Pumps were used.

Plastic Bag Wrapped around shoe, foot and leg.

Platic Bag loosely taped. There must be some 'give' in taping the Duct Tape Boot. Otherwise you cannot remove the boot.

You can make duct tape boots yourself -- but two is so much better!

We liked the crinkled look.

No need to strive for perfection. The crinkled look makes it interesting.

Will be taped and used again!

Cut not on back or on side but between the two.

Tape the edges and fold over.

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Max and Moishe. Moishe now has a big black bushy tail to match his hair.

Will post more details after Halloween.

The whiskers are made of pipe cleaners and sewed on with a sewing machine

• I took an old pair of blue jeans to cut as the pattern and just cut it up to the shoulder. The body is just two pieces of fabric.
• There is a fold on the side and no side seam.
• A placket was made for the opening and then a flap was attached.
• I made a mandarin collar for the neck.
• Rather than have wide arms that flap around we narrowed the arms at the cuff area but left them really long.
• The folded up cuff (folded four time) gives the appearance of being oversized, without really being oversized.

I sewed up the shoulders then sewed the center seam just as you would a pair of pants. Really this is just an extra long waisted single seam pant (that goes up to your shoulders!).

I cut an opening for the arm and measured a piece of fabric that wide. The lenght was to the tip of the finger plus six inches. I attached the arm to the costume and sewed down the underside of the arm.

I began to seriously narrow the arm at the elbow to a tight fitting sleeve at the wrists. We decided not to have the big floppy sleeve but to create the image of over sized PJ's with the extra length of the sleeve that was then rolled up four times.

I made a long placket to be placed on the front seem and attached it. We glued the covered buttons to that. These are extra large -- almost cartoon quality.

The PJ's are closed with velcro squares placed on the underside of the placket.

Max's Tail

• When cutting the tail I left a good bit of bulk for the inside seam so there is no stuffing.
• The tail is attached to elastic and sticks through the PJ's.
• Attaching a tail direcly to the PJ's weighs the costume down.
• The extra tail fur will trim the crown.

• The PJ's close with velcro.
• Buttons are not real buttons but are hot glued fabric on cardboard.
• The buttons are hot glued on suit.
• The buttons are made from an oval piece of card board.
• Fluffy fabric from the Moishe custom was hot glued on.
• Then the buttons were covered with fleece, hot glued to the back of the cardboard.
• Buttons this large -- if they worked as real buttons would be too heavy and drop.
• These are decorative buttons and look really cool out of the same fabric as the PJs.

• This is a standard hood.
• It has two sides sewn together
• So you cut four pieces of the hood as shown below -- adjusting for the size of your Max.
• Two and two are sewn together to make two hoods.
• Then the two hoods are sewn together to make one hood with a lining.
• A band is at the bottom.

Hood Ears

• I used 14 gauge wire and slipped it through the top of the hood to hold the ears
• The ears are stuffed with extra fleece cut in small piece.
• Ears are slipped over the wire
• Ears are sewn to hood

Custom Costumes
Lee Ann Torrans

Remember, really this is ALL about the makeup.  Basically white and blue.

I have made the ribs from duct tape but do not have the photo up yet.  Sorry.

See Jack Skellington to go with Corpse Bride!

Jack Skellington Halloween Costume

Corpse bride is easy.

You can make a duct tape bodice from white duct tape --- see Goth bodice.

Be sure to see Jack Skellington for a companion costume.

Add white tulle all around or for this bride a more modest approach was taken with white satin.

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Purchase your height times two plus about a foot in the back for a train.

Shred the tulle at the end for the veil and attach it to a head piece made from a headband.  Leave a train.

Hot glue the veil tulle to a head band or to a crown of dead flowers.

Paint your face and body white with black eyes.

Custom Costumes
Lee Ann Torrans
Ship within three business days via UPS
LTorrans@gmail.com

But read this == for your children's safety.

Recently the Washington Toxics Coalition staff scientist Erika Schreder checked the costumes with a widely accepted, handheld x-ray gun called XFR that detects toxic heavy metals and some chemical compounds.

In a plastic sword, traces of lead in the paint that registered at 66 parts per million were found -- well below the federal limit of 600 parts per million.

Toxicologists and child health experts insist there is no reason any toxin should be allowed in anything made for a child.

For more information:

www.cpsc.gov

www.toxicfreelegacy.org

wsunews.wsu.edu

www.phthalates.org

www.ourstolenfurniture.org

yosemite2.epa.gov

www.asmalldoseof.org

www.watoxics.org

For more information on lead test kit reliability:

blogs.consumerreports.org

www.cpscgov

For more information on the “Creepy Cape” Recall:

www.cpsc.gov

The dress is made of one piece of fabric and draped with a swooping open back.

Gold lame makes the collar, the arm bands, the head band and the belt.

For each piece lay the two pieces of lame right sides together and the batting on top of that.  Then sew.

Add jewels -- and do some sewing machine quilting.

The sheath dress is made of white satin, folded over with a neck cut .

The head piece is a piece of elastic covered in lame.  The snake head is a bit of batting wrapped around gold lame with 14 gauge sife folded over and inserted.  Two small red jewels  make thee eyes.

The belt is made of a medallion circle with an elongated triangle hanging down.  It is quilted with very low loft batting.

Max and Moishe -- Must add modeling clay to the paper mache head for dimensions and contour.

See Instructions on separate page.

Max and Moishe. Moishe now has a big black bushy tail to match his hair.

Will post more details after Halloween. We are overwhelmed with orders.

Pants made from Calvin Klein tropic weight wool and silk print.

Good fit and extremely comfortable with pockets.

Max and Moishe -- Must add modeling clay to the paper mache head for dimensions and contour.

Two eyes made with one tennis ball cut in half.

Nose made with tennis ball cut down the middle, squished together with duct tape and duct tape put at the top to elongate nose.

Here's our Max as well!

Have to add the dimensions and contours to Moishe's face with modeling clay and shade with paint.  Have put in nostrils and modeling clay to contour face and images will be up soon.

We wanted to go ahead and show what we had!

Moishe began as a $2.77 ball.

We added five layers of paper mache allowing each layer to dry completely.

We reinforced the neck area with about two more layers of paper mache.

Because Moishe has an oval head we glued batting to the side of his head and put the fur over the batting.

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We cut a mouth and painted his face.

We glued on the teeth, hair and horns.  Teeth and horns made from styrofoam cup and white duct tape.

I added two layerrs of foam rubber at the top of the head and then to that I glued a very light weight bicycle helmet.  This left the eyes at mouth level with great vision and a very good fit.

To his sweater.  This is for a large man but is on a small female mannequin.

His tail is really black and furry with 14 guage wire in it to give it shape.

For Wild Thing we have decided on our a low pile furry fabric and have cut it out in strips.

• Our orange stripes are nine inches long and the white stripes are seven inches long.
• We sewed them together to make the body shirt for Wild Thing.
• We have three orange stripes and four white stripes.

Cut one half of the shirt, fold it over to cut the other side so they will match.

With some extra fabric we made a tail prototype until we find the perfect furry fabric.

We put four darts in the front of the overshirt at the bottom in the front and the four darts in the back of the shirt.

For the sleeves the first orange stripe is four and a half inches, the white stipe is seven inches, the next orange stripe is nine inches.

The width of the sleeve is the same width of the opening for the sleeve.

Attach sleeve.

Put a small roll collar at the top.

Mittens

These are the images we are using:

Custom Costumes

Easy Minnie Mouse

Wear with leggings, black top and black high heels.

Duct Tape Minnie Mouse Costume

Jack Skellington Halloween Costume

Jack was made from a paper mache ball ... just like Moishe.  See Moishe for instructions.

He was painted white.  Model clay was used to give dimensions.

Jack's bat bow tie was made from modeling clay as well.  Pipe cleaners were added into the clay while wet.

The bat was painted black, his teeth white and his eyes red.  Velcro was attached to the back of the bat bow tie.

Custom Costumes
Lee Ann Torrans
Ship within three business days via UPS
LTorrans@gmail.com