How to Wrap Your Lower Body for a Mummy Costume

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here today to show you how to put together a mummy costume. Starting to wrap your mummy or finishing it for that matter is so much easier to do if you have some help. Wrapping a mummy up as for yourself is just a very, very difficult for one person to operate, so if you can get some help do so. Start off with your feet; basically wrap your feet up and start extending up the leg. How do you get these rows to stay up? There is a couple of different ways, the way I like to is my personal favorite. Is to use some transparent tape. Basically about every couple of rows or so I do a little tape here, a little tape there to basically keep its basic shape. Furthermore, having some rumples actually here adds to effect, this is ancient wrapping, it's not going to look perfect, there is going to be gaps. That's why it's good to have the white cloth underneath there cause it almost gives the appearance that there is no under wrapping. Which actually there is several layers of wrapping, that is historical accurate. So it provides bunching up as we go up and some areas you might even have trouble with we'll tape up more in a bunch, that is great. We're going to start your wrapping all the way at the feet, all the way up the legs and you're going to stop at the waist. That is where we are going to stop and we're going to do an actually entirely different wrapping for the upper half of the body. "