I spent a lot of time thinking/procrastinating about this costume. I didn't see any examples online that were similar to what I was picturing. I had an old felted sweater that I wanted to reuse. Mainly, I wanted the antlers to be big. The engineering problem was how to make them big, but not floppy.
I was literally praying for inspiration on this one because I knew that I could use cardboard and a coat hanger, but I did not know how to make it so that it would not flop forward. My inspiration was to bend the wire coat hanger into a zig zag shape, like a "W" and then duck tape it to the cardboard headband. Simple, but very effective.
Big sister A suggested that I poke the ends of the coat hanger right up through the hood. Also a simple, very helpful idea:
We did a lot of "product testing" as it progressed:
I decided that it need to be finished on the inside with a few pieces of cushion foam and covered with a layer of the felted sweater on the inside:
To be continued...
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