Halloween 2008
 

Are your kids planning their costumes yet?

I was inspired today for Minifob's costume--he would absolutely love to dress up as a Mover (these guys.) You actually can buy a little costume from their website... for 100 damn dollars (and it's on backorder at that price!) That ain't happening. So I was trying to find some sort of generic "mechanic" coverall costume that I could adapt, but no luck so far. The closest I got is a "UPS guy" costume, and I don't know if I could successfully bleach the brown and dye it blue. I even looked at sewing patterns, but they're all adult-sized. I'd basically have to freehand it anyway to get it small enough, so why buy the pattern? Plus, my sewing skills are questionable at best.

So my new theory is I could get a generic blue tracksuit from Wal-Mart, and sew the jacket/pants together. If the jacket's on top, then the zipper front would still go down past the hips, and the pants waist would be gone--that would look kind of like a one-piece coverall, right? Then I'd just have to cut the hood off and turn the remainder into a half-assed collar thing.

Of course it would be easier if I could just find a place that sells toddler-sized blue coveralls...

what about Baby Gap? I bought coveralls there for Danny when he was a wee lad. Maybe they still sell them.

I'll check there. I've also made an excellent discovery: they're called "boilersuits" in the UK, and blue ones for kids are amazingly common. Now I just have to find one that's cheap enough and ships to the US.

Are you stuck on blue?

How about brown?

Twenty bucks.

if they don't, you can have it shipped to my MIL and she can ship it to you.

Ten Hut!
http://www.soldiercity.com/childrens...s/c/701/lc/315
No blue, but they do ahve black which when bleached a lot gets bluish. They also have od green and a pale desert camo which may blue up.

Yeah V, unfortunately it's a character thing, so it has to be dark blue or it's not the right costume at all--it would be like dressing up as cookie monster, but using brown fuzz.

The khaki suit in foot's link might take blue dye nicely...

This is exactly what I need. It's made by Dickies, but for some reason it's only sold in their UK stores, not the US. I've got an email into their customer service department to see if they can ship one to an American Dickies outlet for less than $20 (which is what a variety of resellers of that item generally are charging.)

Cool suit---I can see why Minifob wants one!

I hope you get it all sorted out. Halloween is, after all, the most important night of the year! Pumpkins! YAY!

here's a cheaper one on ebay

we can do the onward shipping thing. if it's only 2.50 to mail in the uk, it can't be that heavy

Same here Clod - happy to mail to you if it helps.

Anyone have plans to do Yo Gabba Gabba?

Gabba Gabba?
Hey!

My boy is going to be a pirate. He put together a really good costume from crap we already have around the house. I'm quite impressed with this 1st grader's scrounging abilities.

My girl's going to be a person walking on her hands. She'll wear a shirt as pants and sweat pants as a shirt with her head hidden in one of the legs. Shoes on her hands and gloves on her feet. And we've got this paper mache head kicking around that she's going to dangle from the neck of the shirt between her legs. So far, I'm not impressed with the look of it all, but I give her credit for her idea. She has to walk around holding her arms over her head and with shoes on her hands I don't know how she will hold on to anything. They are supposed to wear these costumes at school.

Both are pretty independent and don't want me to barge in and take over, so I'm not sure what to do about my daughter. Her costume doesn't really work. I might have to ask her about the details of this thing and let her see with her answers that it won't work as is.

Shit... Another reason my hypothetical kids will not be exposed to TV.

Wha?1 Yo Gabba Gabba is A W E S O M E