How to Make a Lady Gaga Meat Dress Costume
When crafting a Lady Gaga inspired meat dress for Halloween or a costume party, do not attempt to use real raw meat -- though if you're willing to go all out, you could use tofu bacon or dog treats. The easiest way to replicate the original Lady Gaga meat dress is to have a picture printed out or on screen to use as a reference. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Short dress or over-sized T-shirt
- Meat print fabric or iron-on transfer (with additional lightly-colored fabric)
- Fabric adhesive or hot-glue gun
- Scarlet red fabric dye
- Scissors
Instructions
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Buy an inexpensive or used dress -- something short with straps and light in color. You can also cut an over-sized T-shirt to create the shape of a dress. If needed, paint or tie-dye with a scarlet red color to create a marbled-meat look.
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Buy fleshy or bloody colored fabric, meat print fabric or iron-on transfers -- it is also possible to get blank iron-on transfers, allowing you to take or download photographs of meat and print them at home. If you decide to go with the iron-ons, you'll need additional fabric to transfer them onto. You can use more than one fabric to add color and dimension to the costume.
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Cut random pieces of the meat print fabric and/or the fabric you transferred a meat image onto. Try different shapes to make your final product closely resemble the original meat dress -- long strips, jagged edges and various sized triangles work well.
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Using fabric adhesive or a hot-glue gun, attach your meat fabric pieces onto the dress or chopped t-shirt. Layer them as best as possible to hide the cuts and seams -- the final dress should be a v-neck, short in the front and draped down long along the sides and back. You can sew the pieces also if desired.
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Try your dress on and note any necessary alterations. Add or remove any extra pieces as needed.
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Wrap and glue a few pieces of meat fabric around high heel shoes. Attach additional fabric pieces to a hair clip to complete the costume.
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- Photo Credit Zedcor Wholly Owned/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images
