A Complete Guide To Making Or Buying Costumes

If you want movie costumes, you can either buy your costume or make it from what you already have at home. People like wearing screen-accurate costumes.

The cost of buying or making costumes

When you hire a specialist to make your costume, you have to consider the cost of their labour and the fabric costs. The fabric is not cheap especially if you want screen-accurate fabric. For example, the flight suit fabric for creating the Battlestar Galactica flight suit is about $22/yd. then there is trim, which can go up to $10/yd. We also have buttons and other details that you need to consider.

Most costumers sew costumes in their spare time and have full-time jobs apart from sewing costumes. They also have to take care of their family and other responsibilities. This means that their time is worth something to them. It is, therefore, important to consider these things when buying costumes online or when you want someone to design and make your costume for you.

The golden rule

Costuming and sewing have a lot of rules you need to adhere to. But in all costuming, we have one golden rule that should never be broken. You can have a cheap costume, you can have your costume quick or you can have quality costumes, but you can never have all of the three. This rule works for both buying costumes and making your own costume.

Cheap movie costumes mean for a small amount of money, you can buy a costume. If you have a lot of time, you can wait for coupons and sales, garage sales and scour thrift stores and get rock bottom prices. Also, if you want it fast and cheap, you can find passable knockoffs of expensive costumes. You can also have your costume now or later.