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Summary: Learn how to add the right hat to a Santa Claus costume for a Christmas party in this free holiday video clip on holiday costume ideas.
"Hello! My name is Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you today how to do a traditional Santa Claus costume as well as some edgy alternatives. Now we have our nice traditional fun Santa Claus costume. What if you want to edge it up? Make it a little bit alternative, a little more interesting, a little more today. Well there are several things you can do. The first thing is consider a new hat. Consider a flashy sparkley hat. This is basic red cloth. Looks great for traditional. It's not exciting enough for now. Try to go to nice flashy hat. You can find a lot of these. Some of them have lights in them. Some them like here have sequence in them. Basically, it looks a lot more interesting, a lot more edgy, a lot more out there for our Santa Claus. This is like step number one is making our traditional Santa Claus a little more edgy. It's basically going in reverse. We start with the costume going from the bottom up. Now we're going to go from the top down to make for a more interesting Santa Claus costume varieties. When this Santa Claus walks around, it's going to get different notices with that little sparkle. People are going to take a little bit more notice. This is not necessarily the Santa Claus you're going to see at the mall holding the kids. "