Dinosaur Costume Pattern

What is a kigurumi animal costume?

Kigurumi is a Japanese phrase, meaning 'a stuffed toy that you wear'. Which says alot about what a kigurumi costume is already.

Many kigurumi outfits represent animals, always with a cartoony or stuffed toy look about them. Other kigurumi outfits represent cartoon characters, both popular and make-believe.

The phrase encompasses great big outfits padded to give an unhuman shape - such as the performers/actors you might expect to see wondering about in Disney Land and also much smaller scale costumes. The smaller scale outfits are sometimes known as 'disguise pyjamas' or 'animal pyjamas' . These are light-weight all-in-one jumpsuits, with a hood to give the wearer a new identity. As long as a costume looks cartoony or stuffed-toy like, it pretty much counts.

In Japan, kigurumi animal pyjamas have become fashionable streetwear, and it is not unusual to see the latest manga characters or a tiger walking down the streets of Tokyo late at night. Or early in the morning come to think of it. These costumed idivduals are known as 'kigurumin'.

In the west a similar craze exists, known as fursuits, furplay or furries. Although this has yet to venture out from close-knit conventions and private parties into the realms of street wear, largely due to the prevalance of the Disney-style padded costumes. Difficult to negotiate narrow doorways, you might imagine.

However, the lighter wight kigurumi animal pyjamas have started toemerge in the West in 2010. Lilly Allen famously sported a Dinosaur at Bestival in 2009. The 2010 UK Festival circuit has seen an explosion of these costumes and it looks like they are set to stay. For example check out the selection at the Animal Costumes Shop Cat kigurumi animal costume

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Frequently Asked Questions

QUESTION:
Dinosaur costume pattern?
my friend and i want to make dinosaur costumes for halloween, we're both 15 years old so we can't find a sewing pattern. i want to be a pterodactyl and she wants to be a raptor. we looked at walmart and jo ann fabrics already, so where else can we look, or how would we do all of this?
- ANSWER:
  hobby lobby???????
QUESTION:
Does anyone know of any infant costume patterns?
I want to dress my son up as a dinosaur for Halloween, but I can't find a costume I like at all. So I'd like to sew one, but I'm having trouble finding a pattern. All I need is an infant footed pajama pattern with a hood. I can find the footed pajama patterns, but none have attached hoods.
I don't need a pattern for a Dinosaur Costume in particular because I already have an idea of what I'll do to make it a dinosaur. It could be any costume, or even just pajamas, as long as it has attached feet and hood.
Oh..and I don't mind if it's an online pattern or if it's the pattern number so that I can order; either will help!
- ANSWER:
  http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30091200&ref=sr_gallery_2&&ga_search_query=dinosaur&ga_search_type=all&ga_page=&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title
  this is a site for a Butterick pattern
QUESTION:
How would I make a raptor costume?
Yes, I need a raptor costume by the 4th of July [instead of halloween] for a parade I intend on participating in but I can't find an adult size costume just kid sizes so I figure I will have to make my own. I do have a pattern of an adult size dinosaur costume dating from 1993 that will work for the majority of the body but it's the raptor head I'm wondering about. My idea was to buy the kid size raptor costume and use the head and make the body match but I want to see if there is any easier way to do it other than that.

Here is a picture of the pattern,
http://s333.photobucket.com/albums/m375/Spyro_is_the_American_dragon/?action=view&current=001.jpg

It is a Simplicity costumes pattern #8583 dating from 1993 and it's uncut.[unused]
- ANSWER:
  These are links to cool homemade costume ideas:
  
  http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/halloweentheme/a/091399.htm
  http://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/
  http://www.robinsfyi.com/holidays/halloween/costumes.htm
  http://www.costumepage.org/hallocst.html
  http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/specialfeature/halloween_ms_costumes/
  365halloween.com/
  costume.lifetips.com
  become.com
  momswhothink.com
  http://www.1halloween.net/html/costumes.html
  http://www.costume-works.com/homemade_halloween_costumes.html
  http://www.mahalo.com/homemade-halloween-costumes
  http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Holidays_and_Observances/Halloween/Halloween_Costumes/?skw=homemade+halloween+costumes
QUESTION:
Dinosaur costume help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
So for Halloween i'm going to be a dino. it's navy blue but i'm gonna put make up all over my eyes and stuff but i don't know what colors to use or what type of pattern or design..you get my drift? well i would like some help figuring that detail out! THANKS!
- ANSWER:
  hmm well if the costume is navy blue then use a lot of blue colors on ur face , and if the costume has scales paint scales on ur face , u know that kinda thing =)