
I was super excited about the chance to go to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party for the very first time, and if course one of the first things on my mind was my costume. I absolutely love costumes and getting dressed up. Part of this may come from my experience in theater, but I will wear costumes whenever possible. Halloween, of course, races, and murder mystery parties that we throw once or twice a year. Of course for this year I was going to have to go with a Disney costume.

Since I went with a big group of friends, we all tried to do Disney costumes but didn’t want to duplicate anyone else. The answer for who I wanted to be was pretty obvious – I went with Belle, my absolute favorite princess. We created a doc ahead of time where we signed up for our character, and I put my name down way back in May or something like that, and didn’t really think about it again til August.
I started searching around for Belle costumes, and found that there was nothing I really liked. All of the ones for women were either ridiculously expensive, very cheap looking and not authentic, or way too revealing. So I decided I would have to try and create my own costume. The process was frustrating at times, but I’m ultimately happy with how my costume turned out. Since I’m not really a sewer I knew I wasn’t making anything from scratch – so here are the steps I took.
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