How to Cut Clothes for a Werewolf Costume

Video Transcript

"Hello! I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here today to show you how to put together a werewolf costume. Once you have all your clothes, you're not quite ready to put them on just yet. Werewolves, when they go through transformation of course, stretch and slowly can rip out of parts of their clothing. You're going to want to try to capture this effect on the clothing that you've already bought. The easiest way to do this is to take the bottom of your pant legs, and about 2-3 inches up from the bottom using a razor blade or scissors, although usually with pant material razor blades are a lot easier. Take the razor blade and insert it into the pants only cutting away from you. Please be careful with the razor blade. Once it's in there, then push outward again, away from your body until you rip open. What this will eventually do is create an effect where it does indeed look like the werewolf's body has shifted and stretched to where it's ripped out part way at the bottom of the clothes. This is a really cool effect that is very to pull off, and of course it's another reason why we went to thrift shop to get these. These pants only cost about 3 dollars. Most of your local thrift stores should be about the same. Also consider doing a similar effect right around the neck line of the shirt. Not too much. You don't want the shirt to be falling off, but make it a little more ragged around the edges. If you get the right shirt at the thrift store, it may already largely be done for you."