Yay it’s October! I love the fall leaves and the crisp air.. and most of all, Halloween! This was my boyfriend and I’s Fry and Leela couples costume. We wore them to a party and got tons of comments!
If you don’t know Fry and Leela they are characters from the Matt Groening TV show Futurama. This is a super cute and fun couples costume especially if you are a fan of the show like we are.
You could also wear this as a cute couples cosplay outfit to Comic-con or some other fan event!
Fry Costume
Fry’s outfit was the easiest, my bf just went out and found a red jacket at a thrift store and used some orange hair colouring spray to do his hair.
Make sure you use that stuff in a well ventilated area and wear old clothes because it will stain!
He paired that with some blue jeans, a white t-shirt and sneakers and was all set.
Leela Costume
This outfit was a bit more complicated due to the whole cyclops thing.
Also, her hair is usually worn in a ponytail but the only purple wig I could find was straight, so I winged it and said I was “party Leela”, when she lets her hair down. I prefer wearing my hair down anyway.
The clothing for the costume is just some black leggings and a plain white tank top paired with black boots.
She also has an arm gadget that you can’t see in the photo because it was on the other arm but I just used cardboard wrapped with duct-tape, then taped on some black paper circles for the “buttons” and whatnot.
A quick Google search for “Leela’s Arm Gadget” will give you an idea of what it looks like.
DIY cyclops eye:
I used some old sunglasses and popped the lenses out. You could pick up some cheap frames from the Dollar store if you don’t have any laying around.
Then I made an eye shape out of pipe cleaners.
Using a type of fabric called Tulle (found from a craft or fabric store) I cut that into the same eye shape, and then sewed it by hand to the backside of the pipe cleaner circle using white thread. You may be able to use a glue gun instead.
Then using a black self-adhesive felt sheet (which can be found at any craft store like Michaels) I cut out the iris and lashes and stuck them on the fabric.
I tied the whole thing to the sunglasses frames with some string, and it was finished!
Additional Props
Props included a Dollar store water gun for Leela, and we printed off the Planet Express logo (from google) and taped it on all 4 sides of a small box for Fry.
We also made Slurm can beer cozies which were made out of cardboard with the Slurm logo taped on there!
I hope these instructions were easy enough to follow, and inspires someone for their costume this year!
Cheers,
