How to dress up as the Ku Klux Klan

Sometimes the reality surpasses the fiction, and is that this terrifying group does not leave the cinema or the stories, but reality. The Ku Klux Klann is a group that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in the United States and that promotes the supremacy of the white race through xenophobia and racism. We know that it is not an ideology with positive values, and under no circumstances we support it, but the truth is that it is a great disguise for any party, simple to make and ideal to share between 4 or 5 friends. That's why this time we'll show you how to dress up in the Ku Klux Klan and be the sensation in this meeting or celebration.

• If you have the possibility a white coat
• White cloth
• Needle and thread or special adhesive for textiles for sale in haberdasheries
• Paper or felt in red, white and black colors

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To make your costume Ku Klux homemade The first thing you should get is a long white coat, if you find or have at home a medical type that reaches your feet great, but you have two options: or buy it ready or make it yourself in a rudimentary and fast way, taking into account our next step.

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To make the dressing gown purchase white cotton fabric in sufficient quantity that you can turn your body over and over to the sleeves, cut the holes where the sleeves would go, cut two pieces of fabric previously measured for the length and width of your arm and coil them to make the sleeves, then attach them to the holes they should go. The robe will have an opening in front to close it do it with a white cloth rope and go.

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To make the characteristic capirote of this group you will only need about half a meter of white fabric that you will have to cut in a triangular shape with the base in the form of a semicircle, to then join the ends with either thread or special adhesive for textiles, open some holes for the eyes and that, you will have recreated the mask with which the Ku Klux Klan covers his face, like the one in the image.

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Now your Ku Klux Klan homemade costume has its shape, now you only need the badge, you can draw it on paper and stick it on the robe or if you have more time to make it with felt, for what you will need the colors red, black and white, this Badge is located on the chest. We put the image so you can guide yourself.

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Do not forget that the Ku Klux Klan costume has a greater impact if done in a group, as you can see it will not take long and you and your friends may be the perfect candidates to win a costume contest.

• The white cotton fabric type sheet is quite economical so you will not have to invest a lot of money
• It also does not require much time, half afternoon will be enough to make this disguise