Some Costume Making Tips

Tips to making great costumes:
For inexpensive clothes you may not own check out thrift stores, and pawn shops. Also check out clearance sections for flawed items or old out-of-style options. Halloween may be the only day you wear any of these clothes so if you want to be Tine Turner and find a full sequin dress on sale because it is missing a few sequins buy it! The savings are completely worth the deal for an outfit you may only wear once. Also if you want to make your costumes completely by hand, check out the scrap bins! Fabric is super cheap there and usually they have some pretty big pieces. I was a pirate one year and got my headband that I made from fabric for like 20 cents. Make-up for women can also totally make a costume. Again, check out the sale bin at stores, usually crazy colors of eye shadow go one sale super cheap and these maybe the colors that match your outfit for makeup. Halloween will be the only day you can pull these colors off.
Always bargain hunt what you cannot find in your closet. Also, check your grandparent’s closets! Those are great resources. For instance one year I wanted to be someone from the 60s era, and my grandma still hand a bunch of clothes that all fit me from back then! I have to most authentic costume of anyone who had the same costume as me.
Finally my last advice is to buy inexpensive pieces from costume stores, sometimes even toy stores. Example, one year I was a pirate and I found a skill metal ring for 99 cents. My friend was a cop and she found her badge, gun, holster, and handcuffs in a set at the Dollar Tree for a dollar. The whole costume does not always have to be hand made, small pieces can be purchased to ad to the costume without bringing the costs up too high.