Lazy Mom’s Halloween Flapper Costume For Daughter

 

I’m a lazy mom.  I don’t “do” Halloween costumes.  Every year my daughters want some elaborate horribly expensive costume.  Every year I slowly whittle their costume down to something I can just go out and buy, generally on sale.  I know some other mothers spend a lot of time planning and sewing their child’s costume.  When my kids were younger I would feel guilty.  Once I even bought a few sewing patterns.  They remained unopened and in like new condition when I gave them to the local thrift store.

This year I took both of my daughters to Goodwill to try and piece together something for Halloween.  My oldest found a red and gold 20’s flapper costume.  I’m sure the fringe and sequins attracted her to this particular dress.  For $6.99, I agreed to buy it.  I already had one red and one black boa at home.

 

We looked all over the thrift store, but could not find a pair of shoes that fit and were red.  I knew I had a small amount of red spray paint at home, so we found some white shoes which were the right style for $3.99.  I covered up the parts I didn’t want painted.  I wasn’t too worried about it.  The outfit would only be worn once or twice.

 

The red spray paint can was almost empty, I was surprised that I managed to completely cover the shoes with red.  They look pretty good!

 

We looked up 20’s flapper outfits on the internet.  We found that they usually included a head piece.  I had a silver sequined trim that I decided to spray gold to match the sequins on the dress.  I also had some feather poinsettia flowers.   They were free.  I cut the backing, glued a clip on the back and three jewels (from my stash) on the front.

 

You can see that the flower had a paper backing.  I just tore off part of the paper with the feathers attached.

I only had to put in about an hours worth of work, excluding the shopping.  With a pair of black nylons, I think this outfit will look outstanding…way better than usual.

 

Now on to the next daughter’s Halloween costume.  I’m painting another pair of shoes.  Fingers crossed that I can pull off another good costume.  Two good Halloween costume in one year…I should win an award for that!