Hello all,
I've been following this thread for a while...glad to know I'm not the only freak out there who is going to be the Joker for Halloween! Like many people here, my friend and I put a lot of hours into making my costume. Here's what I did:
For the pants, I found a near-purple pair at a thrift store. They needed to be a bit more purple, so we spray painted them. They came out really good.
For the socks, I just ordered a pair on eBay.
For the tie, I bought a plain white tie, and painted on the design by hand (a long time!)
For the shirt, I had a blue shirt and drew in the octogons with a navy blue fabric marker. We also make the designs. That took a good 2-4 days. But it came out great (I have better pics if you cant see them).
For the vest, we bought fabric from Jo-anns, and just designed one! Very happy with the result.
For the undercoat, its just a purple coat from the local thirft store. I know its actually a grayish-blue, but it fit very well.
We had to built the over coat from scratch too. The fabric was from jo-anns...I know it's not exactly the same shade of purple, but it looks really cool and close to screen accurate. It needs to be ironed still...and the liner still needs to be stiched down

. That was a huge project, but still came out great.
For the make up, I used fake flesh, rigid collidgen, and fixative "a" to seal it up.
For the gloves, I bought a pair of black driving gloves fro the thirft store, gave them a light buffing...primed and painted them purple. Very satisfied with the result!
Luckily I have long blond hair, so that effect came out good too...
What do you all think?