Making your own fancy dress costumes is a great way to save money and get the outfit that you want. There are lots of fancy dress stores online offering a great range of clothes, but making your own costume means you will have a tailor made outfit made in your exact size. Each sewing pattern gives you an indication of how difficult it will be to make. So even the novice tailoress can have a go at making a simple costume. They give you a recommended fabric guide and tell you how much fabric and trimmings you will need to make the costume and accessories. Many fancy dress patterns come with a range of options for the costume, so you can use the pattern more than once and produce a different outfit each time.
Simplicity Sewing Patterns website has a range of patterns covering adults, children, toddlers, pets and multi-size. Fairies, Disney, historical and fantasy patterns are available. Simplicity was founded in 1927 and its headquarters are in New York. They have an excellent range of patterns for fancy dress costumes and offer easy to make costumes in the latest designs. This is an excellent site to find your favourite fancy dress patterns.
McCalls Sewing Patterns company encompasses Vogue, Butterick and McCalls. It produces the catalogues for all three brands. Fancy dress costumes available include fairies, pirates, Disney princesses, superheroes and animals.
Butterick was started in 1863 by Ebeneezer Butterick and is one of the most well known sewing pattern companies. They have a range of products including fancy dress patterns, books and dvds. Their fancy dress costumes come under the category of costumes. There are patterns for adults, kids, plus size, dolls, pets and home decorating. You can order patterns online, or you can purchase a catalogue so you can browse through their patterns from a book. Buttericks have a good range of Halloween, historical and religious costumes, as well as fairies, princesses, Animals and characters.
Vogue offer patterns by category, designer, new patterns or clearance. They have a good range of historical and Halloween costumes to choose from.
Kwik Sew sewing patterns offer pets, ladies, Mens and kids patterns for a range of costumes. They give you a few tips as to how the pattern can be used. For instance they suggest the cape pattern can be used for superheroes, Dracula, Zorro and Little Red Riding Hood. The suggested fabric is woven. You can download the pattern's details in a PDF document, which is handy if you want to price the fabric before you buy the pattern.
Burda have a range of carnival, Halloween and kids costumes. They assign a difficulty level to the pattern so you can decide if it is within your skill level. A handy table of cloth measurements pops up in a new window, so you can work out how much material you'll need.
