DeLancey's Disney Dress-Up

RJ's friend Maddie celebrated her 4th Birthday with an adorable Princess Birthday Party, which invited its guests to come as their favorite characters.  While I could've gone the easy route and let the boys wear one of their animal costumes (we seem to have been animals for Halloween nearly every year - Dronkey (okay fine, it's not a REAL animal), Po the Panda, RJ the Racoon and Private the Penguin, and Simba the Lion/Lion Keeper), but I was looking to expand their dress up options and I happen to enjoy sewing.  So...some reconnaissance at Hannah's Birthday Party revealed that Maddie's favorite princess was Aurora (Hannah is Maddie's little sister and yes, reconnaissance is a stretch - I just asked Maddie and she readily informed me.)  After a google images search and our Sleeping Beauty DVD cover helped me discover who Princess Aurora's prince was and that his costume (which had to be the one he was wearing when she was in the preschool-girl-favorite pink dress) wouldn't be too tricky, RJ agreed to be Prince Phillip.

Logan was a no-brainer.  He was going as MY favorite Disney prince, Aladdin.  There was no way I could resist putting his little belly in that belly-baring little vest.

You have NO idea how difficult it is to find patterns for these particular costumes.  There are multiple authentic and non-authentic versions of the princesses, but princes?  None.  So, I bought this pattern for a knight and when making the tunic, added my own pattern for the striped poof sleeves and the collar.  I made the cape pattern myself (that wasn't hard - it's a trapezoid that's almost a rectangle with straps).  The pants are just basic pants but since I didn't have a real pants pattern in his size I actually just modified the pattern that I used for Logan's pants to not be poofy.  Add the Velvet belt with the fake pillow buckle and voila!  RJ is Prince Phillip.

Add the crown and sword that were favors from the party and he was even more "authentic".  He even tried to slay batman (before he had a sword) for Princess Aurora.







Logan's costume was easier.  I made the vest pattern myself and bought a girl's genie costume pattern for the pants and made the waistband straight rather than V-shaped.

The only problem was that this kept happening:
Silly baby kept taking his vest off!

Too bad Princess Jasmine was not in attendance at the party.


We had a great time at the party and the costumes keep making return appearances in the kid's play, so it was definitely worth the work!

Here, a month after the party is RJ reprising his role as Prince Phillip with his buddy Ashlan playing the part of Princess Aurora.

See more pictures from the party here.