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- Hey, welcome to the show.
I'm Dustin.
And welcome to our brand new DIY workshop.
Today, I'm going to be making "Captain Jack Sparrow" because you guys have
requested it a whole bunch.
So, I'm gonna be making it.
And it's gonna be pretty straight forward.
Just add it some found pieces of clothing that I found in some thrift stores.
So, let's take a look at what we've got here.
A lot of baggy flowing clothes, red bandana,
then we got the whole wig situation, and
I got some beads and things, pants, boots some guns and a sword.
But really I'm looking at fairly basic articles of clothing that I just need to
pair up and find the right patterns and the right colors on.
And then I'll have to figure something out for his makeup cuz it's very iconic.
And he's got like a Double goatee kinda happening.
I'll figure it out.
So, I think we're going to start with the top half, I've got this white dress shirt.
This was $6.
It's pretty baggy.
Might have to modify it a little bit.
All right, sufficiently baggy.
Probably just take the buttons off.
I'm just gonna fold this seam in before I connect it all, so I'm just hot gluing it.
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Just gonna reinforce the inside with a little tape.
All right, so that's pretty much it for the blouse.
Kind of just modified it a little bit.
So now, I'm going to work on the vest.
I found this in the ladies section of the thrift store which I browse around a lot
looking for stuff.
I mostly was focused on this pattern.
It's really close to the one in the pictures,
which is blue with a little bit of like a gold kind of paisley pattern.
So I love this, I just need to turn it into a vest.
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Okay, don't need that.
I have no choice but to just put this on.
Welcome, welcome to the yoga class.
So basically, I need to try and cut it here, and cut these wings off.
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And glue these sides back together here.
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Now reinforce the inside of that seam with some cloth tape.
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I guess I'll try this on.
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(Laugh) Yeah, it's looking pretty good.
Okay, cool, so now that I see how this hangs down,
I'll just kind of straighten this line out.
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Okay, I straightened out one side.
I'm gonna use this piece I cut off to know the exact pattern for the other side.
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Looks more like a vest now.
Those edges are straighter.
So moving on, he's got this little scarf that just hangs out on one of his belts.
It's white with a red stripe.
So as I'm looking through the clothes at the thrift store I came across
the most absolutely perfect bit of fabric.
I almost jumped for joy right there in the store.
So I just bought this shirt.
I'm just gonna cut a piece out of it.
And it's like really ratty.
So I'm gonna see if I can just rip this.
Yeah.
All right, so I wanted this to be a bit longer so
I'm just gluing together a handful of different pieces.
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All right, yeah.
Adequately long I think.
Actually, I'm going to make it even a little bit more ratty.
His is like torn up.
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Here we go.
All right, so that's that.
Now we've got a few other pieces here.
We've got the pants and these were six bucks.
Nothing really special to these, other than I just looked for
the exact right color.
So literally not doing anything to these.
So these are done.
And then I picked up these brown boots.
Now these are also Women's boots, they're a little small on me, but they fit.
These were $10, really going for height here,
this is the highest boot I could find at that particular store, brown leather.
Now this isn't perfectly accurate to his costume, but
I think when it's all put together it's gonna look really cool.
So I'm not gonna do anything else to these.
Okay, so moving on to the belts.
He's got tons of belts, just hanging all over the place.
So I tried to find some that had really great buckles.
These were $4 a piece.
Here's a pretty nice snazzy one.
That's very piratey.
This one's brown so that's good.
This is really piratey.
Love this one, and then while I was looking through the belts,
I found this really great belt that's made up of a bunch little beads.
So, I'm gonna hang on to these for later, cause I'll be using these beads all over.
He's got beads everywhere, in his hair.
That was a good find.
So for these I think I'm going to just mask off the buckle part, and
then spray paint them brown.
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- Okay, those are all masked off.
So I'm going to take these outside to paint them.
Now I picked up this brown spray paint for about 4 bucks, so let's do it.
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Okay, parking lot.
The new paint station.
(Laugh)
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Okay.
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There we go.
Hm, it's a little small.
I can extend the back by cutting it right here.
All right, so I'm just gonna use some craft foam.
You can get a sheet like this for 99 cents at the craft store.
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Okay, just gonna hit this with a little bit of brown spray paint, and
then we're good to go.
Can't even tell I extended it.
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Belt, belt, belt.
Okay, so it's time to move on to his wig and his bandanna.
Now I'm pretty sure I have the perfect wig.
We've used this tons of times for homemade movies.
This is the one.
Okay, this was a Jesus wig, and we have used it a ton of times on homemade movies.
This was even used as "Chewbacca" one time, turned it around backwards and
put the face on it.
So I think this is gonna be perfect for "Jack Sparrow." So
along with the wig, I'm going to use this red shirt that I got for 6 bucks.
I'm gonna to cut that up and use it for the bandana.
Also, I have some twine.
I don't know how much this costs usually but we had some.
And those beads that I got on that belt.
So I'm gonna look at the pictures and try to make it look like "Jack Sparrow".
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- Okay, so I've basically made one really long piece.
That's basically how it works.
He's got this huge braid, and it goes over the bandanna.
So I'm about to braid up in here.
Now, I've got two older sisters, so I'm a pretty good braider.
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Bam, braided son.
He's got some scraps tied on to one of them.
I love it when certain colors just instantly make you think of the character.
I mean just this alone looks like "Jack Sparrow" to me, it's really cool.
So he's got this little bone, or something,
hanging out on the side of his head.
I don't know what that is.
So I'm gonna try and think of something that might work for that.
Zip tie.
It's not quite as thick, (Laugh), but a zip tie kind of looks like it.
I'm going to cut the tops off all of them, and
kind of glue them together into one big thick one.
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- I think we've got another braid in our future.
So I guess I could explain how to do a braid in case you don't know.
You take your three pieces, and
then you constantly take the outside one from one side.
And then the outside one from the other side and put them in the middle.
And you just keep going like that.
All right, beads.
We got some beads.
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Just gonna tie that one just like that on there.
So, I'm basically just looking at a bunch of reference pictures and
adding twine, beads, braids.
Just kinda here and there.
They don't have to be exact, but
I'm just kind of like giving it a good mix of things.
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All right, so it's looking pretty good,
I'm going to just hot glue the bandana into place cuz I'm scared that it's just
gonna fall apart when I try to put it on my own head.
It needs a masking tape dread.
Okay, there we go.
I think I'm gona stop there.
I could probably keep going but
before I move on "Jack Sparrow" has this kind of double goatee situation.
They're braided and they hang down so I'm just gonna still some hair from the back
of here so I can glue them with spirit gum to my face.
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Un-braid, un-braid.
Okay, so I'm hoping that that will be enough that I can kinda glue that.
(Sound) All right, so the last little finishing touch here is the rings.
I picked these up at the costume shop.
These are $0.99 each, and this one, I think, was maybe 2 bucks.
They're made for children, so I'm gonna cut them.
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Okay, now it is time for makeup.
So I'm gonna look at some pictures and try to draw some stuff on my face.
Okay, black eyeliner pencils.
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This is lipstick, but.
The good thing about his makeup is that it's very sloppy to begin with.
This is my second "Johnny Depp" costume for the show and
the second time I've had to put dark eye makeup on.
So I'm noticing a trend here.
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(Laugh) All right, so now,
I'm gonna attempt to attach this wonderful little goatee to my face.
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Yeah.
All right, so that worked.
I guess it's time to put the whole thing on.
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All right, I think it's time to go show off the full costume.
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Where's the rum?
Who's got the rum?
I knew I'd find the rum right away.
Thanks, love.
Mm.
- (Noise) - Hello.
- How are you?
- Good, I'm jealous your hair looks better than mine.
- Thank you, thank you love.
I spent ages on it.
I'm not in your shot am I?
Another shoot happening?
- No.
(Laugh) - I think the internet just exploded.
(Laugh)
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Hey, "Captain Jack Sparrow", I am transformed.
I spent about $60 bucks on this, with all of the clothes and everything.
I added a few accessories here, though.
I already had this sword in our weapons bin,
but I picked up these old fashion pirate guns, they were $6 bucks a piece.
And I already had the wig, of course.
But, I think when it was new five years ago it was 20 bucks.
So, that's pretty much it now, I'm a pirate.
Not just any pirate, but "Captain Jack Sparrow".
I mean, you could probably pick up a costume for cheaper, but it's gonna,
it's gonna be lame.
This is like very authentic, it's ripped, it's heavy duty.
All right, so thanks for sending in those suggestions, let us know what other DIY
costumes you want to see us try and make and be sure to subscribe.
And we'll see you next time on another DIY Costume Squad!
Yo ho, a pirate's life for me.
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