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Fun costume! Easier to put together than I expected

This was a last minute choice for my middle school aged child to bring on Halloween this year. His school doesn't have a football team (we are based outside the US), so spray painting it and using coloured duct tape to imagine what such a uniform would be like was a "homerun" idea (so to speak). His school's mascots are the Tigers, so we fashioned a design inspired by the Cincinnati team's helmet (easy to google the stripes). I was a little concerned by how the facemask part of the helmet would work, but once they were all assembled, it was very intuitive -- also, wrapping the facemask parts with duct tape strengthened and coloured them well. For a 12yo, we needed to use a headband inside, which worked like a charm. He looked great! I worked on it for a couple hours spread over a few late nights after he went to bed. Highly recommend this one