Ideas for Homemade Costumes
Purchasing a ready- made costume can become quite pricy. With a little creativity you can design and make your own ideas for homemade costumes at little cost. It is always fun to pretend to be someone or something else. Take some time to jot down some inspirations for event attire that can be sewn, created or thrown together. Let your imagination have free reign and watch your potential dress up alternatives grow.
- Search the Internet under costumes to give you a creative boost for your own imaginative designs. There are many places to get ideas for homemade costumes all around you.
- Determine the occasion where your costume will be worn. This might help you narrow down your list.
- Decide who will be wearing the costume. There are some outfits that will be appropriate for specific age groups.
- Become a famous couple and dress up as a famous historical duo. Kings and queens of bygone eras are always in vogue. Characters from television will also work.
- Pick something that personifies your unique interests and make it into a fun way to have others guess who you are. Create a television remote out of cardboard and some paint if you are a couch potato. You could even make it more ingenious and become an actual couch potato. Paper Mache, glue, paint and some accessories will turn you into a potato. Create a cardboard couch.
- Go as yourself in a unique way and wear an easy to make picture frame. As you can see there are ideas right within your own home.
- Note that you do not have to spend a lot of money on a costume. Look inside your closet or borrow clothes from others and remake yourself into a hunter, chef, healthcare practitioner, or even a newspaper delivery person.
- Make a warm cat outfit by turning a pair of black sweats inside out. Place some felt ears onto a headband, paint your face with whiskers and add a tail. To go as a sex kitten use black intimate apparel and lacy leg tights for a form fitting style.
- Reverse roles and go as someone unexpected. The husband could be Little Bo Peep and the wife the sheep for instance.
- Realize that costume ideas are endless. Brainstorm and think about dressing as a famous celebrity, book or movie character, musician or political leader.
- Add some mystique and consider making your attire from a different culture or time. Spanish flamenco dancers, Indian attire, Victorian or Medieval ladies and gents will all work in your pursuit of the perfect original costume selection.