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

Step 8 Feet

Carol's feet are huge. I decided to build full feet that had my shoes inside them and have some kind of a sole. The Sole is made from some hallway mat, since that is tough. In retrospect it might be better to use something like a car floor mat with rubber. As you can see from the pictures, the feet are made from an upper that wraps over, a rectangle of inside padding, and a strip that wraps round the back. The shoe is sort of wedged in and the tongue is sewed to the front of the inside of the foot so that you can slide your foot in with no hands. The sole is sewed on round the edge and that helps to pull the upper round to start to look like Carols feet do. Once you have the basic shape, you can cut bits out around the edge to get the shape right, you just need to resew the edges. Since the sewing around the edge was so important to it not falling apart, I squeezed a layer of rubber bath sealant around the edge over the stitches. The foot part is is then glued onto the legs, but they'll be attached more securely later.