custome made christmas elf costume

Elf costumes, A bit of Christmas fun

Harley Davidson gave away a customised Harley Tricycle to a very lucky and deserving kid in 2015. I made the Elf costumes, it was a budget job for a charity event. The challenges were: -Minimal measurements. -No time or budget for fittings -No budget for fancy materials -the arms had to be detachable for a…

woodsman, fur headpiece, costume maker, sydney

Aldi ad- I made the fur headpiece

The wardrobe department couldn’t find a fur headpiece to fit the script, so they ordered a fur and some glass eyes, and sent the materials to my workshop. It was a strange experience. Normally I would use faux fur for my costumes. I had to straighten out the ears, one was squashed flat to the…

The nature of costume hire has changed

The nature of costume hire is changing. These days costumes are cheaply made available, spewed out of factories in their thousands packaged in plastic and sent all over the world for the unfussy masses. These costumes are worn once, and then thrown into garbage destined for landfill, because quite frankly, they are generally not worth…

King Joffery, best costume maker, fancy dress shop sydney, bondi, australia

Costume for Game of Thrones

How’s this for a ripping party theme? “Cult Fiction” and guess who the host wanted to dress up as? Someone important, someone powerful, someone so far from his own personality it would be shockingly hilarious. He chose to be a King for his birthday, King Joffery in fact from the popular series “Game of Thrones.”…