So a "Scary-oke" event is coming back this year and being held at the theater that I've been performing at/working at recently. So I actually have a reason to wear a Halloween costume this year, more or less. I didn't feel like going whole hog and knitting a costume for months this year still, especially given that we're once again kinda living in fear about whether or not things get canceled again or whether we just shrug, wear masks indoors and party on anyway.. However, I did buy these wings at a thrift store a few years ago and kept them around the house.
Back in 2019 or so, I saw someone in a skirt with these kind of butterfly wings in it. I asked her about them and she said that she'd cut them up and sewn them into a skirt.. I kept that in mind.
This year, I found two more sets of the same wings that turned up at the same thrift store. So I finally had enough wings to try the skirt thing!
With the first set of wings, I hand sewed them together at the front to turn them into a poncho (I note that they didn't have any elastic holders or anything like that and put that on the top. Then I cut the other two sets of wings in half at the narrowest point and used FrayCheck on the edges and let them dry. I bought a 2 inch wide or so elastic and pinned the wings to the band and hand sewed them around. They overlap at the sides since my waist was narrower than the entire set of wings put together. Then I hand sewed the edges together.
I note that since the sides had some extra to them, I left holes in the sides for either adding a pocket (I'm not sure if I would with these though, it's rather thin material) or to put a pocket belt on under the skirt and then be able to access my phone.
This isn't the entire costume as yet--I've ordered 2 butterfly masks, one for eyes and one for nose/mouth--on Etsy to add to the whole thing, and I probably won't have the wig on because 2 masks is gonna be enough to put on one head. But you get the idea.
Pocket hole demonstrated here.
Edited to add both masks I got off Etsy:
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