Tomas from the Orphanage costume

[Maulix]

This year my daughter asked for a Tomas costume, from the movie The Orphanage. She liked the movie so much, she even asked for the costume as a Christmas present. So.. I made one for her for this year's Halloween. I went on a thrift shopping spree to reconstruct the vintage orphanage uniform, but I had no luck. The shirt is a flowery dress and I wasn't able to dye gray properly, as anyone can notice.. but the shoes were a true find!. The mask was hand-made from an old blanket I found. I wanted the mask to look as much as the original as possible, so I worked hard on it. Distressing it was a pain in the back, I can tell you that. Anyway, thanks for looking and all comments welcome.

P.S. Truth be told, I wasn't able to find high-resolution pictures of Tomas on the net. I had to work with the either really small images I found or the trully low-resolution ones.





The original Tomas:

[mintbamboo]

Very nice! I was just scanning through 'recent with pics' and didn't read the topic title but knew instantly who it was!

I'd get creeped out if I had to make this costume. Scary movies don't scare me, but this one came pretty close 

[The Platypus Project]

Holy s**t....wow.....wow...you did and AMAZING job on this.  I LOVED the movie, it was unbelievable.  I'm wisting this...what a GREAT idea!!!

[shaints]

Oh, my god... It's so good it seriously gives me the creeps! It looks so much like the original Tomás. I saw the movie not too long ago, so it's fresh in my mind.

I won't be able to sleep now.

[iggy.boy]

I LOVE THIS. those shoes really were a true find. GREAT JOB!

[__themidge]

Absolutely freakin' AWESOME.
I knew who it was the moment I saw it.
LOVE IT!

[spirals420]

this movie was mega scary!!! great job!

[smelsmin]

Awesome!
Both in taste in costume and in costume making-ness.

[SHES.CRAFTY]

That costume is awesome! I love that movie.  Great job!

[acidtrix]

AMAZING and immediately identifiable. I actually got the shivers from that. you did great!