Popular vintage character costume ideas for Cosplay and Halloween
The Girl with a Pearl Earring's Costume
The Girl with a Pearl Earring's Costume can be recreated with a peasant dress with white lining, a yellow hair scarf, a blue headband, and a large pair of pearl earrings.
Lady Dimitrescu's (Resident Evil ) Costume
Lady Dimitrescu's outfit is composed of a long white dress, black gloves, a black hat, and a pair of gloves.
Lizzie Borden's Costume
To rock Lizzie's costume, you can start by layer in a corset top on a vintage top and maxi skirt. Then wear a fascinator and carry a bloody axe.
Aunt Lydia & The Handmaid's Tale Costume
The Handmaid's costume is a red cloak and a white bonnet hat with a pair of black boots. Aunt Lydia’s costume is a brown cloak, brown coat, brown poncho, Oxfords, a brown belt, brown beret, brown gloves, a Fertility pin.
Mary Queen of Scots Costume
Queen Mary costume is a vintage gown with Elizabethan influence or simply wear a grey balloon sleeve top and big skirt to complete the costume. The wear Mary's signature red wig and a stark white makeup.
Miss Kitty (Gunsmoke) Costume
Miss Kitty's Saloon costume features a corset dress or gown in red styled with a choker, gloves, and a flower ornament on the hair.
Vanessa Ives (Penny Dreadful) Costume
Vanessa Ives’ costume includes an all-black ensembles featuring a long dress with lace sleeves. She styles it with a belt as well as a pair of dangling earrings.
Violet Harmon (American Horror Story) Costume
Violet Harmons’s costume consists of a yellow dress as well as a purple cardigan. She also has brown hair topped with a black hat.
Helen Keller Costume
To make the most out of Helen Keller’s costume, you can opt for a vintage dress or a blouse and skirt combo. Add in a wig to complete the look.
Flash Gordon Costume
Flash Gordon costume is red and black tank tops then pairing it with black pants. You can add his emblem on the chest with a sticker drawing and throw in a belt with a gold buckle, too. Finish the look with boots, a blonde wig, and a sword.
Johnny Appleseed Costume
Johnny Appleseed’s costume is a brown vest on your red lumberjack shirt and black pants. He also got a brown satchel and a pan over his head.
Plague Doctor Costume
Most of the plague doctor costume is based on 17th century clothing of a normal person, such as a cloak, leather boots, and a tailcoat.
Schuyler Sisters (Hamilton) Costume
The Schuyler Sister's costumes all include vintage corset-style gowns. Eliza wears a light green-blue color scheme, while Angelica wears here in pink. Finally, Peggy wears the yellow gown.