How To Make a Cowboy Costume

  • August 1, 2008
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Need a last-minute costume? Well yee-haw, pard’ner, you can slap together a cowboy outfit in no time.

You Will Need

  • Jeans
  • Plaid flannel shirt
  • Leather vest
  • Cowboy boots
  • Leather belt /w oversized buckle
  • Bandanna
  • Cowboy hat
  • 4-6' Length of rope
  • Toy pistol and holster
  • Zip ties (optional)
  • Clip-on hook (optional)
  • A length of thin cord or rope (optional)
  • A toy badge or small belt buckle (optional)
How To Make a Cowboy Costume: Collect all the elements

Step 1: Collect all the elements

Collect all the elements and props that you’ll need. If you’re missing any of the items, a local toy store and/or second-hand clothing shop should have anything you need.

How To Make a Cowboy Costume: Put on basic outfit

Step 2: Put on basic outfit

Put on the jeans, shirt, belt and vest; tie the bandanna around your neck.

Traditionally, the bandanna is tied behind the neck for men, and in front of the neck for women.

How To Make a Cowboy Costume: Don your pistol

Step 3: Don your pistol

Put on the pistol holster complete with toy pistol.

When looking for toy pistol, look for one styled as a revolver.

How To Make a Cowboy Costume: Make a lasso

Step 4: Make a lasso

Coil the rope into a lasso. Use a zip-tie to hold the coil or rope together, unless you plan to play with the rope while wearing the costume.

How To Make a Cowboy Costume: Hang the lasso

Step 5: Hang the lasso

Hang the lasso from your belt using a clip-on hook, or attach it to your belt with a zip-tie.

To take your outfit over the top, make a bolo tie by clipping a length of thin cord or rope around your neck with a toy sheriff badge or belt buckle.

How To Make a Cowboy Costume: Put on your hat and boots

Step 6: Put on your hat and boots

Put on your hat and boots and giddy-up, ‘cause the party is a’waitin’.

Many modern cowboys still ride horses to monitor their cattle herds, and still carry guns as protection against wild animals.

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Comments (3)

filmFlicka

I enjoyed watching that! FUN!

over 3 years ago by filmFlicka

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damonzwicker

thanks - we had a lot of fun making it.

over 3 years ago by damonzwicker

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liznoint

Quite helpful. I always go to Halloween parties as a cowboy and would never get the reception I was looking for from the ladies. I realize the reason was because I was tying my bandana in the front. Next Halloween I will be called a cowboy and not broke back or caballero. Look out cowgirls.

over 3 years ago by liznoint

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Alice_Barb

quite useful,How To Make a Cowboy Costume, I will share these to my friends, all of us at equestrianloves.com, Love horses very much. Thank you for your help

6 months ago by Alice_Barb

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