Lilly wanted to be a scary clown for Halloween. I didn't actually get the assignment from Emily until Wednesday....(her class party was Friday).
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| At my first stop, I found this wig for $1.98... |
Although there were HUGE RACKS of clothes and costumes at the Goodwill store, there was nothing that could be considered a "clown costume"...I'd hoped to buy something that I could Frankensew into a clown costume...
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| My second stop was the DAV Thrift store -- where I found THIS MOST PERFECT CLOWN COSTUME. And it was complete, with a clown collar...OMG...I knew somebody had sewn this costume...they used a pattern and everything. Then -- ten years later -- I buy it for $2.45. | |
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| Lilly could not have been more delighted!! |
All I had to do was take it home and stick it in the washing machine. It came out BEAUTIFUL.
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| I made one important change. The woman who made it, ran elastic through a casing for the neck opening. But there was no back opening in the actual costume. So it was kind of hard to get in and out of the thing. Taking a trick from the Mary Mulari playbook -- I just sewed an elastic ponytail holder.... |
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| With the new opening in the back, the ponytail holder stretches enough for Lilly to step into her Clown Costume. |
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| She was going for Creepy Clown, and I think she hit it... |
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