How to Make Children's Halloween Costumes

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"Now, our kids selection of "costume" costumes is limited because we really don't do that. We do period historical, but we have acquired some things for shows, donations, things like that. We have cute little Chinese costumes that are really quite wonderful, little pajamas with hats and things. And these were in a production of Little Shop of Horrors with the with The Young Actor's Company, so I had little little kids in the show. And my friend Carol Klein does Broadway Babies, and these are cards featuring kids doing Broadway shows, and this, of course, is Dolly Levi from Hello Dolly. And you can see all the beading and stuff on the dress, and of course this is kid size. More traditional type things would be like the shaggy dog here, and I believe he is probably from Disney. It's kind of fun. This is really our kids section and this tends to be the kids historic period historical stuff so you're going to see things like little suits from Oliver. That's actually an Oliver suit right there. You're going to see stuff from Titanic that we did. There are actually pieces from the remake of All the King's Men that are in here. We have Secret Garden; we have Oliver. Tryin' to think what else we have, oh A Christmas Carol's in here, little girls dresses. This is the boys stuff; this is the girls. Little coats and things that came in; little dresses from Music Man right here. This is Sunday in the Park with George, the satin dress right there. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of crazy stuff in here. There's some real period things like here's a little girl's skirt with the varying crests on it from the 50's; little poodle skirts from Grease. So, most of this stuff, like I said, tends to be more of the period historical type stuff and not the "costume" costume stuff. So, kids costumes are basically; I usually suggest to people, if you want something that's sort of trendy and current to go to like Hollywood Toys or someplace that carries the packaged costumes. If you want something different I suggest making it. And we do a lot of kids stuff for school presentations. They'll come and they go I'm doing Eleanor Roosevelt, or I'm doing Abraham Lincoln so we try to have some smaller things we can use on the kids or we actually try to build pieces. And we are going to be doing a new section of stuff that's going to be like children's and miniature costumes, so we'll have those adult costumes in miniature for the kids for those things."