craftgrrl | Cobbling together a zombie astronaut outfit out of a tablecloth

On Friday it was the 13th, and I went to a club night where you either had to come as a vampire or a zombie, with some stage acts related to various films of the genre. I had a silver heatproof tablecloth hanging about, and decided to go as a zombie astronaut (my boyfriend went as a zombie hick)

I used a 1960s dress pattern for a simple shift dress, easy to get on without fastenings, and without too many seams to weaken the foil.

The costume on (before zombie makeup) with some hastily made legwarmers

Jetpack made out of two cereal boxes, toilet rolls, and a large amount of tinfoil, decorated with poster paint pens. I guess I'm more of a cosmonaut than an astronaut according to this.