Fashion Friday, er Tuesday: HALLOWEEN!

Let’s pretend it’s Fashion Friday even though it’s Tuesday.  No one has to know.  Because today’s re-fashions are all about Thursday, aka HALLOWEEN!!

So, I really love a good handmade/thrifted costume.  They just have so much more character than a store-bought wad of polyester stuffed in a bag.  Not that I’ve never bought those – I have – but they are hardly as fun and cost twice as much money.  Phoo!  All you need is a little creativity and marginal sewing skills (hot glue is your friend), and you’ll be the talk of the whole party!

Carrie at This Momma Makes Stuff crafted a Rapunzel costume for her daughter out of little more than a thrift-store prom dress and ribbons.  How stinking adorable did it turn out?  It’s perfect!

 

And you’ll never guess what Cheri used these clearance toilet seat covers for.  Or, rather, you’d never guess that her fierce little viking’s costume had such humble beginnings.  SO cute.  See it on her blog I Am Momma – Hear Me Roar.

 

It just took a little bit (ok, probably a lot) of altering for Chantell to turn this woman’s 3/4 size dress into a girl’s size 8.  With the addition of a big black bow and patterned tights, her daughter is transformed into a modern Alice in Wonderland!

 

 

How I wish I had seen this idea a few weeks ago when someone asked me how they could make a race-car driver costume for their kid.  My awesome reply?  “Ummmmm.  I don’t know.”

What I SHOULD have said was, “Do what Holly at Stitch Craft did.  She turned a snow-suit into an astronaut costume with white duct tape!  That would work for a race-car driver too.  It’s genius I say!”

 She even made the helmet.  Gah!  So cute.

 

Uh-oh, who is this little rapscallion?  That’s MY girl!  Yep, here is a Fashion Friday offering from yours truly.  She wanted to be a bumblebee, and look what I happened to find at Saver’s for $6.  As you can see, it was a little on the … adult side.  Yipes.

So, I simply chopped off the classy faux-leather halter-top (saved the flower) and replaced it with the top half of an old black t-shirt that I sewed in place. I took it in a little on the sides, and now it fits great!  The length is just right.

 

 

And now, some adult costumes!  Don’t worry, not like that.  Des at Gladness of Heart  was inspired by the “bumbling brilliance and understated beauty” of Jane from Tarzan. 

She started with a yellow dress-suit, a white button down shirt, a yellow sheet and a tablecloth.  And just look what she transformed them into!  Absolutely amazing.  And about a  bazillion times better than a ‘sexy librarian’ or somesuch.  Head on over to her blog to see more, and appreciate all the crazy hard work she put into this fabulous costume.

 

Carissa at Carissa Knits was also inspired by Disney, and set out to make a Cinderella costume with an old wedding dress and two awesomely poofy bridesmaid dresses.  But listen here. She wasn’t going for traditional Cinderella with the blue ballgown, no!  She wanted to create the look that Cinderella’s little animal friends had re-fashioned for her before  her Fairy Godmother ever came around.  Such visionaries, those mice and birds.

Isn’t it spot-on?  She even has the strand of blue beads!  I love it so much.

 

 

And Trisha from Feeling Kinda Thrifty got in on the Halloween fun too, emerging from the cocoon of these shapeless thrift-store dresses as a beautiful butterfly!  What a magical transformation! (Although that green one might have made a nice Statue of Liberty costume too, for those of us who, you know … rely on the glue gun).

Excited for Halloween?  I am!