COSTUMEBENCH

🖼 the gallery

Made by real people.

Costumes built, sealed and worn by hands like yours. Made something from a guide here? Send a photo to hello@jonathancapone.com and it joins the wall.

A knitted fantasy costume with carved wooden-looking hands, worn at a convention — A knitted fantasy build with carved wooden hands, worn on the con floor · Rose Abrams, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A papercraft animal mask with EL wire traced across the outfit — A papercraft mask, EL wire traced across the outfit · Rose Abrams, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A group of friends in matching gold-trimmed costumes — A demon-hunter group build, worn at a Hamburg screening · Rose Abrams, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A red and gold glitter fantasy costume worn on stage — A red-and-gold fantasy costume on stage at Festa dell'Unicorno · Cris, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A finished fantasy forest costume at a convention — A finished forest-fantasy set, worn at Festa dell'Unicorno · Cris, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

These first pieces are licensed photos from Wikimedia Commons makers, credited in each caption, and the wall of build videos carries hundreds more. Your pieces take their place — send yours.