How to make a Gort costume

Step 4 Making Gort's Gloves

If you check the pictures of Gort, you will notice that the glove are really mittens. In looking around for ways to make them, I spotted an almost perfect shape match. The glove we use to remove excess hair from our long-haired Persian cat is almost the right shape if you square off the end of the mitten.

If you are uncomfortable with the sewing arts (or don't have a helper), you could just pick up two of these gloves and unstitch the plastic section from the canvas backing. The resulting glove could be painted silver and would do OK.

In my case, the memsahib volunteered to make them for me. Using the cat glove as a template and a large piece of gray felt for material, she outlined the glove shape and squared off the end in doing so. Cut out the two glove halves and then hand stitch the edges with needle and thread, A separate wrist gauntlet was cut and sewed to the glove. Make it long enough to allow for overlapping the shirt. When done, invert the glove to put the stitching inside. See picture of glove before inverting.

Now you are ready to get out the spray paint and turn the gray gloves silver. See picture of glove after painting.