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i need some help...well, quite a lot of help really...

i'm having a Halloween party a week tomorrow [Saturday] and am dressing up...i want to be 'Countess Dracula', heh :D
i've been looking for photos online of the original Dracula, Bela Lugosi [at least, i think he was the original, i'm not very good with films...] but have only found which is only a model of him.
i don't want the jacket really, as that's going to be too hard to find. i have black trousers and black shoes i can wear. i'm also dyeing my hair black...although, it'll be spiked as normal, rather than brushed back. and i have white face paint.

anyway, enough rambling :\
what i'm asking is, would it look tacky if i lined the cape with red? coz grey looks a bit boring...
and more importantly, how would i go about making a cape? and making the collar stand up?
also, don't some vampires have cummerbunds? and what kind of shirt is best? a ruffly one?