Post-Halloween Post: Part 2

As if it wasn't hectic enough at this time of the year with everything going on, my brother asked me to make his costume, too!  And it was actually kind of fun to do, but it definitely stretched my limits as a seamstress.  He told me he wanted to be Dr. Strange, and we got set to work!  The under shirt and pants were easy to do: we just had to find a long-sleeved, navy blue dress shirt and navy blue dress pants.  These we found at Deseret Industries Thrift Store for, like, $2 each.  Then came the over-thingy.  It's not really a shirt, but it's not really a cape or anything like that either.  I guess it's more like a wrap.  Anyway, we found an old dress at Deseret Industries for $3 that looked kind of like a sailor's dress, with the big shoulder pads in it.  It was great.   It kind of looked like this.

Then, I taught my brother how to use a seam ripper and he ripped out all of the white trim, cut off the sleeves and cut down the middle so that we could make it into a wrap.  We saved the sleeves and cut those into big, long strips so that we could wrap them around the arms and legs of the costume.  He then used old boots from a former Halloween costume, and he ordered the belt and the pendant off of Amazon.  The last step was the cape.  The dang cape that took me TWO MONTHS to make.  This was the bane of my existence, but it really turned out well.  It is made from three different kinds of red fabric, one with no decor, and two with decor.  It has an lining, and exterior, and a border around the entire cape, as well as the shoulder patch, the neck patch, the standing collar, and most of the sewn-in designs on the exterior of the cape.  I had to sew the front so that it rested nicely on his shoulders while looking like there was little to no effort in holding it on.  Then, I sewed on some red straps that instead of tying in the front (because that would look tacky), he looped them under his arms and tied them behind his back.  When everything was all said and done, all he had to do was draw on the facial hair and add some white streaks to his sideburns and voila!

... and that concludes this portion of the Post-Halloween Posts!  Until next time, this is your DIY-er, Lindsay, signing off.