Design a Costume

Peter Pan

      I chose to read and create a costume for the play Peter Pan, written by Doug Rand, because it was my favorite movie growing up as a child. I did not choose Peter Pan or even Wendy as the character that I make my costumes for, I chose the Lost Boys.

      The Lost Boys are a bunch of kids that basically run around the woods and create chaos. In the Disney movie, the lost boys all wear clothes that look like they would be footsie pajamas and every one is animal themed. If I got to create the costumes, they would not wear animal pajamas, I would rather they all have a torn up, ratty look to them. As if they had lived in the woods all their lives. 

i like how the boys in this picture, their clothes look dirty and old, as if they found these clothes lying on the floor of the woods somewhere and kept them. This is a perfect example of what i had in mind for their clothing.

   

     Not only wound the lost boys have old ratty clothes, but they would also all have weapons as apart of their costumes. The weapons would vary from bows and arrows, to dart guns, to daggers. They wouldn't have anything too modern, like a hand gun.

The bow and arrows would be made of wood, so that it looked as if the Lost Boys had made them themselves. Even the holder for the arrows is made out of wood.

This is a great example of the kind of dagger i would want the Lost Boys to carry. Instead of a metal blade, this dagger is made of wood. It is clearly not as sharp as a metal blade would be, but i like that. I like it because it gives the weapons a worn out look, which is what i am going for.

      On top of all of the clothes and weapons, the Lost boys would also wear colorful face paint on their faces. They would have war markings all over their bodies and faces. Also, some of them would wear colorful feathers in their hair. 

This war paint is colorful and just the way i imagined it. All of the Lost Boys face paint would vary in markings and locations on their faces though.

Although this is a picture that somebody drew, it was really the only picture that i could find that matched my vision. The feathers a bright and simply just hang in their hair.