The Addams Family Cosplay
Made and put together during 2019.
"The Addams Family" has its origins reaching all the way back to the New Yorker cartoons by Charles Addams. It goes on to the 1960's sitcom, and their legacy still continues to this day. For this description, I will be focusing on the 1991 movie "The Addams Family". An abnormal group, the Addams' are composed of Gomez and Morticia, their children Wednesday and Pugsley, as well as their relatives that also live with them, Uncle Fester and Grandmama. They are assisted by their Frankenstein-esque butler Lurch, and disembodied hand Thing. After a fight, Gomez and his brother Fester split up, leaving Fester to go missing somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. Suddenly, "Fester" shows up at their door, accompanied by some con artists, in order to steal the family's immense fortune. Is the man that claims to be Fester Gomez's long lost brother, or is he a faker? A phony? An utter fraud?
I based my dress on Christina Ricci's floral black dress. Hers is a signature shirt dress with a white collar, worn with tights and the classic braided pigtails. I found a close match to her floral cotton print at JoAnn's, and used black buttons down the front. Her collar was a white denim, so it would stay nice and stiff.
"The Addams Family" Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
"The Addams Family" Costume Designer: Ruth Myers
Photographer: Rebecca Scott and Emma Covert
Cosplayer: Emma Scott (myself)
Photo Locations: my home and Salem, Massachusetts