El Gigante

May 27, 2007 6:48 PM

Help me make a luchador mask.

I know a man with a very large head who loves lucha libre. This man had a regular old-fashioned hat made for him last year, because he hasn't fit pre-manufactured hats since he was twelve. It was the largest hat size the hatmaker had made by a half an inch in the band and had to be made in brown material instead of the black he originally asked for because the black material wasn't structurally strong enough to stand at that size. So you can see how ordering a mask online would probably not work for him, even with the stretchiness. He's considered a pro mask maker, but first I'd like to find out how difficult a basic stretchy mask would be to make. Preferably, if I could find a basic pattern that I could size up.

posted by e^2 to clothing, beauty, & fashion (1 comment total)

How good a sewer are you? Dogdad and I bought a cheap luchador mask from Archie McPhee, took it apart, and used it as a pattern, adding an inch along the seams. That part was easy. Sewing spandex (something I'd never done before) was not. Not at all. There was a lot of swearing, and eventually I ended up hand sewing it. But, if you're skilled, I don't see why you can't just do the same thing we did.
posted by dogmom at 9:18 PM on May 27, 2007