Captain America Costume

Mayhem has been on me to make him his Halloween costume, even though it's still five months until Halloween.  Knowing that he will wear it from now until then, I knew it would be fine making it so early.

So after some looking, we decided on this as our target model.

Photo from Marvel Directory

Now it seems one can not find a Captain America pattern easily, so I chose a generic pajama pattern, and then adjusted it as needed.

Image from Pattern Review. Com

I had to do a lot of adjusting, as you will see.

Mayhem is showing us his Shield Protect move.

Action shot.

Here is a full frontal view of the costume.   The sleeves are a little long to look a bit like gloves.



For the shirt, I stitched several red and white strips together, then sewed them to a blue piece.  I then placed the pattern on the full piece of fabric to cut out the front and back pieces.   The sleeves were done in a similar manner, where I pieced red, white and blue pieces of fabric together, and then placed the pattern on it to be cut out.    The pants were a bit different.  As you can see, Captain is wearing boots, and rather then buying separate red boots for the costume I chose to emulate the cuffed boot look, but sewing the cuff into a strip of red fabric, and then sewing that strip to some blue fabric.  After that was complete I cut out the pants patterns.    The sleeves also have one extra touch, since the Captain is wearing gloves, the red of the sleeves has a slight cuff where it meets the white of the "shirt".

Since, my children generally don't like to wear masks, I chose not to make one for now.  If I am induced to do so, I plan to use a generic "animal" head pattern (any bear, tiger, or cat pattern has the same basic hood) and the same blue fabric.