This is a great werewolf costume that looks convincing, is comfortable to wear and most importantly, looks realistic enough to scare just about everyone you meet. If you like scaring people, this is the costume for you.
What does this Werewolf costume contain?
The items that come as part of this costume consist of: a shirt with attached fur and a motion mask.
The mask
The mask that forms a vital part of this costume is an incredible feature. Along with having a moulded rubber scary wolf face and scary teeth, the mouth of the wolf moves as you move yours underneath.
Here you can see the Werewolf Mask in action
The Mask consists of a fur hood which covers the top, back and sides of your head, the mask face is constructed of moulded foam rubber with a plastic interior. Eye slits enable your field of view. Foam blocks are included which you place inside as padding. This makes sure the mask is a comfortable fit and also ensures that when you open your jaws, the mask jaws open in synchronisation. This mask is held in place by an interior hook and loop fastening strap. It does not require any batteries. Just simply put the mask on and start practicing your scary werewolf snarls.
It really does make this werewolf costume a cut above all the other moon mad monsters out there. Better watch out Red Riding Hood!
The Werewolf Shirt
The shirt in this Werewolf Costume is a pullover style with a plaid white, black and green print on the back, upper sleeves and loose front panels. The shirt front and lower sleeves are made from grey, faux fur. Elastic bands around the palms of your hands keep the sleeves in place. Padding on the shoulders creates the bulky appearance of a werewolf’s body.
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What do I need to add?
By simply adding some tatty jeans and comfortable shoes, the mask and shirt in this Werewolf Costume will do most of the work for you. However, for a mind-blowingly realistic costume that will scare the living daylights out of everyone you meet, simply add some Werewolf Gloves, a pair of Werewolf shoe covers, and a pair of ripped jeans for all over werewolf coverage. Even your own mother won’t know it’s you.
Werewolf Gloves
Zagone Studios
Grey Faux Fur
Sharp looking claws
One size fits all
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From the Zagone Studios, we bring you these werewolf gloves designed to give coverage of your fore-arms up to your elbows. Not only does this create a powerful effect when combined with the mask and collar above but the design of the gloves allows for manual dexterity so you can grip that glass, wolf snack or your next unsuspecting victim!
Werewolf Shoe Covers
One size fits all
Strap in Place
Latex and fun fur-elastics
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Werewolf Ripped Jeans
Denim Jeans
Five pocket Style
Zipper Fastening
Range of Colors
Range of Sizes
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Werewolf Snarls and Howls
Records upto 10 seconds
Speed control
Volume Control
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The mask you receive with this Werewolf costume does not make any sound. If you would like to have some impressive snarls and howls at the ready throughout your event, one solution is to record the appropriate sounds on a small hand held device such as this Voice Recorder. When you want your werewolf to snarl or howl, simply press the button!
Werewolf Eyes
Black Matte Shadow
Long lasting
Also in other colors
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Apply Black eye shadow around your eyes before you put on your werewolf mask to obscure your own face completely and add a fierce look to your werewolf eyes.
And finally, the answers to all those questions you have about Werewolves that you never realized you had, and more besides.
Where do Werewolves come from?
Our fascination with werewolves spans the globe and extends back over 4000 years. We can find the first reference to a man transforming into a wolf in The Epic of Gilgamesh, an anonymous work that dates from around 2100 BC.
Latin Werewolves
For an image of what we perceive as a werewolf today, we fast foward from Gilgamesh to the works of the poet Ovid (43BC - 18AD). In Metamorphoses, Ovid captured all the unsavoury aspects of werewolf behaviour that we recognise today. He vividly described the transformation from human to beast that we associate with our modern idea of a werewolf:
…He tried to speak, but his voice broke into an echoing howl.
His ravening soul infected his jaws;
his murderous longings were turned on the cattle; he still was possessed by bloodlust.
His garments were changed to a shaggy coat and his arms into legs.
He was now transformed into a wolf.
Victorian Werewolves
The ancient folklore roots of werewolves have survived and thrived over the centuries. In the ninetheenth century the theme of the werewolf took on a new fictional form. Hughes the wer-Wolf is a story by Sutherland Menzies which relates a Kentish egend dating back to the Middle Ages. The Hughes were a family of werewolves who endured suffering at the hands of the townsfolk. Thankfully, a dark tale often has a happy ending where love prevails. Unfortunately, that usually comes at a cost and where werewolves are concerned, a few grizzly events along the way.
Werewolves have feelings too
Along a similar theme, other stories written at this time also portrayed the werewolf as a victim. Having been wronged, the protagonist seeks revenge and in doing so, makes a sinister pact with an evil force. In The Wolf Leader (1857) by Alexandre Dumas (Three Musketeers) we hear the tale of a shoemaker named Thibault who seeks revenge. As a result of his pact with a wolf who walks like a man, Thibault finds he is able to control the local wolves and earns a reputation with the locals as being a werewolf.
Werewolf Women
Clemence Housman's The Were-wolf published in 1896, brought us our first female werewolf who lures male victims to isolation and then transforms into her lupine self before devouring them.
Twentieth Century and the definitive Werewolf
The next century witnessed an explosion of werewolf stories published in England and America. Algernon Blackwood wrote a number of werewolf stories, typically based on an occult theme.
The Werewolf of Paris (1933) by American author Guy Endore is the most renowned Werewolf novel of the twentieth century. The Werewolf in Paris is revered in werewolf folklore much as Dracula is the definitive vampire. In 1961 the story was adapted for film and given the title The Curse of the Werewolf by Hammer House of Horror.
Transforming on Screen
The first movie to portray a werewolf's transformation on screen was Werewolf of London (1935). Six years later in 1941, Lon Chaney Jr starred in The Wolf Man. This movie captured the interest of the public and both the movie, the actor and the werewolf were catapulted to stardom. This version called on elements of traditional folklore and fiction, such as how a the wolf can be killed by a silver bullet.
Werewolves come and go, but it is the The Wolf Man movie that has most shaped our modern perception of what a werewolf looks like, how he transforms, how he is devoid of his own will and how he can be killed. As most werewolf fans will know, it contains the now famous rhyme:
Even a man who is pure in heart
And says his prayers by night
May become a wolf
When the wolfbane blooms
And the autumn moon is bright.
How NOT to become a werewolf
If you don't want to become a werewolf, obey the golden rule:
'Beware the Moon...and stick to the road' (American Werewolf in London 1981)
