Some of you may have seen the pix I posted of my daughter in her Batgirl costume. Most of that was crafted by the board's CatGreg, and it's an outstanding costume. My daughter has spent countless hours in it.
A few weeks ago, my daughter announced, quite unexpectedly, that she wanted to be Catwoman for her birthday party in May, which is going to be a costume party. We googled Catwoman images, and she said she wanted to be the Julie Newmar version. So, I got to work putting things together.
The biggest challenge was obviously the bodysuit. After scouring fabric stores for appropriate patterns, I found nothing current, so I ended up buying a nice out of print pattern on ebay. I had to customize the neckline and add a collar, but otherwise, the pattern worked well. The sparkly black fabric I found at a local fabric jobber. I sourced the elbow length black stretch satin gloves online, and added gold spray-painted fake fingernails for the claws. I got her boots from Payless (not super screen accurate, but comfy for a kid), and used the genuine period gold fishscale belt from her Batgirl costume with an appropriate period buckle for her belt. I used the necklace from the Rubies Grand Heritage costume with some links taken out, and made a kid-scale mask. I haven't finished her ears yet, so in the following picture she is wearing the ears from the Rubies costume.
Cheers!
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