Carbon Costume

Reuben (played by Alex Wolff) works at the hospice facility where Sam lives and takes her and other patients to a marionette show in New York City on the day the aliens invade in the horror prequel A Quiet Place: Day One.  Reuben has long hair and a full beard, and shows himself to be a kind and caring person, reaching out to Sam even when she is prickly and combative.  He promises to get her pizza if she comes with him to the City for the show.  During the facility’s field trip, Reuben wears an unbuttoned flannel shirt over a graphic tee and a denim jacket.  He also wears jeans and striped sneakers.

Gwimbly is a character in the Adult Swim cartoon Smiling Friends, now streaming on HBO Max. In the late 90s, he was once the main character of the popular Gwimbly video series. Afterwards, he fell into poverty, relying on filming Cameos for income. Pim and Allan team up with him to relaunch his career. Ask Gwimbly to do his signature victory dance – he’ll usually do it once (or twice) for free.

A new film in the Joker series is releasing October of this year, called Joker: Folie á Deux. This film is new in that it is actually a musical, and features singer Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn.

To dress as Harley Quinn in this film, start with the makeup. Her makeup uses black eyeshadow or black cream makeup that is smudged around the eyes in a clown-inspired shape. For lips, she wears a cool red lipstick that you can also smudge around the edges with your fingers. For the outfit, wear a black coat for an easier more low-effort version, or you can take on her red blazer one. For the red blazer, take a ruffled/ peplum red blazer as the base. Cut the sleeves to right above your elbow, leaving an extra inch 1/2 or more to turn under and attach the ruffled pleated fabric, which is two pieces at two different lengths. If you want to take on the diamond/ argyle pattern, use red piping or cording to sew or glue on in similar shapes. Even further, add light distressing at the edges and on some of the piping with watered-down paint and/ or sandpaper.

For the top, take a muslin or cream corset-style top as the base. Using black fabric paint, paint on the argyle pattern (Tip: use a pencil and tape or a cut out piece of paper as a stencil to make the edges clean). To mimic the pointed shape at the bottom of the corset, take muslin fabric and attach it underneath and fold it in the similar draped pleats as in the photo. Lay the fabric flat on the ground and run sandpaper across the edges to create the raw edge.

Wear these with a black leather mini-skirt, black argyle patterned tights, and any black shoes to finish off the look.

Maxime Le Mal is a character from the new Despicable Me: 4 and voiced by Will Ferrell. Maxime is nicknamed the ‘insect man’ and was a student at a school for villains. He is part cockroach and is seeking revenge on Gru.

To dress like Maxime, take a long green puffer jacket and using gold paint markers, draw on a similar floral design all over as the pattern. Take a fur dotted collar from a kings’ cape costume piece and attach it to the green jacket. Pair this with a green shirt, gold bow tie, white gloves, and green circular framed sunglasses.  This would make a fun duo costume with his girlfriend in the movie, Valentina.

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.

With breakdancing making its debut as an event at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games, b-girl Raygun stole the show. The university lecturer, real name Rachael Gunn, actually holds a PhD that focused on breakdancing culture. Her original dance moves, like kangaroo hopping and floor writhing, quickly went viral on the internet. Unfortunately the judges saw differently, and Raygun was unable to score a single round.

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.

Chappell Roan is a popular singer-songwriter that has a unique style when it comes to her stage costumes. She is inspired by drag and isn’t afraid to go all out glam in her performances. Her fans have taken a love to her style and share their concert-going costumes and outfits online, showing off their creativity by recreating her looks and making their own.

One look that would be great to recreate is her adorable fairy costume. At the base, wear a purple leotard and a purple corset over that. Add silver gems/ rhinestones by glueing them all over and at varying sizes. Add a dusty rose color tulle lining the neckline and straps, and the hips by scrunching it at different points and using either glue or thread to attach it as you go. For makeup, go for purples, graphic liner, and a bright purple-pink eyeshadow as blush. For accessories, wear iridescent/ holographic fairy wings, an orange large beaded necklace, a pink hair piece with feathers in your hair, and black floral opera gloves.