Want an unusual Halloween costume? Or just an unusual costume for any occasion? Me and my friend hate conventional costumes and wanted to go as something different. After a lot of conversation we decided that Coke and Sprite bottles were the way forward! I wanted to document our hard work, so here's a photo explanation of how its done.
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| We got a meter of tubular material from the Birminham Market and cut it to size. The Sprite bottle needed to be sprayed in order to look authentic. |
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| Shoes from Primark. They were sooo horrible when I bought them but looked suprisingly good after I'd sprayed them. One pound trainers and six pound paint, so a pretty cheap pair of shoes. |
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| Next we drew out our general template for our main writing and went round it so it was dark enough to trace onto the sheet that we were going to cut it out from. |
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| Paint the writing with fabric paint so that it shows up more clearly when you put it onto your fabric. |
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| We wanted to look exactly like the sticker on the bottle so we made most of the signs so we looked more like bottles than just girls in coke and sprite dresses! We put our own cheesy touches like the 100% sugar (above) |
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| When my friend put on her dress the green paint stretched and looked less obviously so, because it was just the easiest way around it, I spray painted her whilst she was wearing it. I took precautions (above) and she was left with green legs for two days. This technique is not advised! |
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| Once all the bits were cut out we had to hot glue gun them onto the dresses. Unfortunately, the material was too stretchy so we had to glue them on whilst wearing them. This is a very painful procedure due to the heat of the glue, so wasn't the cleverest of ideas but we endured it and get everything on. |
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| Hot glue gun the little bits that've been missed on yourself so that it is entirely stuck. This is very hot so be aware! |
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It's wise to use a piece of paper under the dress when gluing with boiling glue onto your skin, especially our your bum and stomach! I made a quick, pretty crappy collage of all the little bits of my friends Sprite costume, we were thorough and made most of the little silly things on the bottle. We put in our own cheesy little jokes for our own amusement by putting '100% sugar' and 'served seriously chillin'', we even wrote 'best before end see neck of bottle' and wrote the date on our actual necks; we thought about everything!  And so, after three days and like a million glue gun burns we were finished and ready for Halloween, even though we weren't scary! But that's what's best about these costumes, you can wear them to any costume party! Next year we have said we'll be Budweiser and Carling!         |
