'Carol' from 'Where the wild things are'(Movie) Costume

Step 6 Body Support structure

Using thicker foam for the body probably means that I needed less structural support, but it did tend to come to a point where the sewed join was, so I attached a couple of short bits of bamboo or pipe across the join. You can see in some of the pictures that this pinches the foam in at certain points, but that won't matter once the fur is on.

Major structue comes from a loop of PVC pipe around the top and bottom of the body. This was just sewed in with a looping stitch around the pipe and at a couple of points around the loop it's worth getting some pliers and pushing a stitch through the pipe to make sure that it doesn't slip sideways.

I worked out later that the front of the body came up too high, so I cut a big wedge out of the front, moved the pipe down and resewed it. This also pulled the front of the body in a little bit which seems to be consistant with what I've seen in pictures of similar costumes with the heads off - some of the big muppets for instance.