Carbon Costume

Alvin and the Chipmunks is a popular children’s film from 2007 that follows three musical chipmunks named Alvin, Simon, and Theodore who find a new home in Dave’s house, a singer songwriter that helps them gain popularity and show off their talents to the world.

To dress like Alvin, wear a red hoodie, a headband with ears, a chipmunk fuzzy tail, and a mic headset. To create the A on his sweatshirt, take yellow flocked iron-on material and draw an A to the size you want. Simply cut out the A and iron onto the sweatshirt. For pants and shoes, anything goes but khaki shorts or pants might fit best.

In Fat Albert, Dumb Donald (voiced by Lou Scheimer) is a member of the Junkyard Gang. In the band, he plays a trombone pieced together with plumbing and parts of a gramophone. He’s simple-minded as his name suggests, but has bursts of intelligence every once in awhile.

Poppy Prescott is a character from the new Despicable Me: 4 and voiced by Joey King. Poppy is a new character introduced in this movie, and is the new neighbor of Gru and his family. She has dreams of being a supervillain.

To dress like Poppy in her regular clothing, wear a pink jacket and a pink and white skirt, paired with white socks with pink stripes. For her ‘supervillain’ costume, wear a black and pink jacket, a black and pink skirt, white socks with pink stripes, pink sneakers, white fingerless long gloves, a black beanie and silver goggles over it. Also wear a costume utility belt, which you can paint white with paint such as acrylic paint to match.

Julie Bruin (based on and voiced by Julie Brown) is a character in the animated series Tiny Toons Adventures.  She doesn’t have much screen time, but Julie appears cheerful and happy.  Julie wears a sexy green dress, black gloves, black earrings, and black shoes.  She has ginger hair with bangs and red lipstick.  Since Julie is a bear, you can add an animal ear headband to complete the look.

Huckleberry Pie is one of the only male characters from the Strawberry Shortcake franchise, appearing in numerous series. He is a fisherman and one of Strawberry Shortcake’s friends. He also has a puppy named Pupcake.

To dress like Huckleberry, wear a straw bucket hat and attach faux blueberries or huckleberries at the side (I’ve attached blueberries in this case as they’re brighter in color like the original design). Wear a purple sweater over blue overalls. Roll the legs of the overalls into cuffs, then take green and white striped fabric and cover it either by sewing or glueing, hiding the seams in the folded areas. You can also use this fabric to cut out a large square to tie as a bandana to wear around your neck, and if you’d like to take the costume even further, carry any stuffed dog and cover it ears and one paw in the striped fabric by glueing or sewing like patches.

Mifune (voiced in Japanese by Kenjiro Tsuda and in English by Robert McCollum) is a secondary character in the anime/manga series, Soul Eater.

He once served as a bodyguard for criminal organizations, due to his status as a legendary samurai, but when we first see him in the series, he is acting as a guardian and protector of a very young witch, Angela Leon. She isn’t strong enough to protect herself, so she relies on him to stay safe, as witches are very targeted.

Mifune has long, dusty blonde hair, and mid-toned brown eyes. For this outfit (he has a few), he wears a long sleeved white shirt with ‘osamurai’ written on the chest, ankle length blue jeans with frayed ends, with a thick black belt, and tan sandals. He carries around a case with a large amount of swords.

Lenore Vandernacht is one of the two main characters of the webtoon Nevermore.  Her name is derived from several Edgar Allen Poe poems as is that of her love interest and the other main character of the series, Annabel Lee.  Prior to her brother Theo’s death, Lenore had long black hair, which turned partially white from shock in the aftermath.  She cut it short after she escaped the attic where she was drugged and held following the accident which injured her and killed Theo.  In the afterlife, Lenore finds herself at Nevermore Academy, where she no longer has to rely on a cane or wheelchair, but maintains her short hair.  She wears a uniform consisting of a white blouse with ruffled cuffs, a black tailcoat, light colored pants, and black riding boots.  To add the finishing touch to your costume, use a black eyeliner pencil to add twin beauty marks under your eyes and add a dark burgundy lipstick.

Mr. Boss is a character in the Adult Swim cartoon Smiling Friends, now streaming on HBO Max. He is the boss of Smiling Friends and the only human character in the show. Mr. Boss appears elderly but he is quite active and enthusiastic for his age. While highly eccentric, he truly cares about making people smile. He also truly cares about his employees. Put on a gray toupee to complete the look.