Hot glue gun, premade bras and panties, a sewing machine and the trims and notions section of the fabric store, and you imagination!
I've made plenty of costumes myself. I have lots of sparkly stuff and big head dresses and sequins and stuff, but I usually start with ready to wear clothes. I made a pair of sequined chaps using a pair of regular old jeans. I ripped open the side seams and sewed in velcro. I cut out the butt and the front of the chaps, leaving the leg of the pant and the waistband. I covered the leg parts with red sequined fabric, sewed in white fringe and used a 1.5" thick trim to cover the outside seam and make it look pretty. It probably took me 2 hours after purchasing everything I needed.
If you can cut shapes out of paper, you can make your own costumes.
Now, if those darn ostrich feathers weren't so expensive!! I toyed with the idea of making my own feather fans. Yeah, right! I buy the dumb things cheaper than I can make them. It would run me about $500 a fan to make them, and I have found them online for $500 a pair. Buy the feather fans here.
Also, remember discount shops that sell really plain bras and thong panties (WalMart is my favorite), get the style that is cut like so:
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Then add sequins, beads, fringe, ribbons. Create matching arm garters or buy elbow length gloves and adorn in a similar fashion. Just pretend you are back in pre school and youare making those macroni pictures, but this time you are decorating your body, not a peice of construction paper

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