Hallowe'en Costumes

[atherleisure]

I only made one Hallowe'en costume this year. The girls weren't planning to trick or treat, and we were moving to another state so I just made a costume for the boy. He wanted to be Giyu Tomioka from Demon Slayer. He read all the books earlier this year. He gave me a picture he found online, and I did my best to copy it, granting that we bought the closest fabric JoAnn's had to the print that the character wears.

https://kimetsu-no-yaiba.fandom.com/wiki/Giyu_Tomioka

This actually worked out really well to make the shirt and pants with a pajama pattern and then add a false white collar and cuffs. I know the original is probably supposed to be a white garment with a black garment over it, but I knew there was no way I'd get my son to put on two long-sleeved shirts plus another garment on top. Then I draped the gown (no idea what it's actually called) based on cutting layouts I saw online for kimono. The leg wrap things (again, no idea what they're called) I assume are meant to be strips wrapped and tied, but I made them as structured pieces out of felt that snap closed. I think the outfit was reasonably successful.







The pictures were taken after he got home so he was a bit truculent about being photographed.