DIY Hallowe'en: William Shakespeare

In the fun-filled Boing Boing DIY Hallowe'en Costume thread, a reader says,

Thanks to the skills of my Mother-In-Law, my 9 year old son has had a series of fabulous costumes. This year he is going as William Shakespeare, and I've humiliated our poor greyhound with a Tudor style dress and "Elizabethan Collar."

In the past he has been everything from Teddy Roosevelt, to Napoleon (trust me - Napoleon is the perfect costume for a 2 year old!)

Here's a slide show of his whole Halloween history.

• [feuilletoniste]

  Great to see the bicorn hat being reused – for Napoleon, a revolutionary war soldier, a pirate… My mum has always been a fabulous costume maker. She really inspired my sister and me with the DIY aesthetic – I think my favourite part is coming up with clothing items which you KNOW can be used in different contexts. The winners so far are a blue circular skirt which has been used for a hobbit, Anastasia Romanov, and Alice in Wonderland, and a puffy-sleeved blouse which was the undershirt of a multi-layer medieval outfit, a more practical Eowyn shirt, and then a super-duper pirate top. What will they become next?

• [corestrength]

  Just wonderful. The kids pose and facial expression are priceless.

• [Anonymous]

  *glares at image for a while*
  The dog looks really photoshopped… :/

  • [daev]

    came to say this.

• [kenahoo]

  Elizabethan Collar. That’s rich.

• [wasagooze]

  That’s my son.

  The dog is photoshopped in, but only because I didn’t have a photo of them together yet. That IS our dog (her name is Mabel), and we did make her costume too!

• [TomDArch]

  Very cool! But if that greyhound wasn’t photoshopped in, then the kid would be about 6′-6″ tall! You’ve accidentally scaled the greyhound precisely to Whippet scale…

• [InsertFingerHere]

  Had to look twice. THAT is the dog’s tail.

• [jaytkay]

  Best. Mother. In. Law. Ever.