California CostumesJack the Ripper Costume

Do I wish we got more or better quality for the prices we pay? Yes, of course. The materials are not of the highest quality and the user should take care to preserve this because I do believe it would rip easily.However, my teenager looked FABULOUS for Halloween. You can't see it's cheapness when it's on. Also, we didn't need to add much for his costume to look great (unlike other costumes which require separately purchased accessories to look like the picture.) He looked really, really good and all we added was a cane.I was and am pleased with this costume, particularly since I think 2021 may be the last year that my oldest trick or treats with his younger siblings. I would buy it again.. but I don't have to because with a little care, the costume survived a few uses.

Overall this is a good costume. Materials are as expected for the price. I was worried that it would arrive and be too small so I ordered a large and I should have gone with a medium. The sizing seems accurate I was just playing it safe. This costume is nice in appearance, but like most Halloween costumes, fabrics are thin and fit is very generic. My only issues were the cape attaches to buttons on the neck piece which doesn't work out too well in actual use, it just starts to pull on the neck piece and looks funny. As a fix I just used a black shoelace to tie the cape. There also is nothing on the inside of the vest to attach the interior portion of the double breast to so it just hangs down drooping the lapel. I used a small safety pin to correct it. The hat is felt not the foam type that appears in the image. They may have changed it from the old material based on previous reviews. The felt hat assembles from three pieces. It's clever and functional just don't expect a fancy hat. I liked this costume overall and it could also be used as a vampire if properly accessorized. You need to supply your own pants, shirt, slacks, sideburns, glasses, knife and cane to complete the look. I teetered between the three/four star area but added points for versatility since I could also be a vampire or a dickens character.

Great material. I'm a 35" waist and weight 172 an the costume fit nicely. Yes the hat was squished but it's actually gives it character. It arrived early and we'll packaged. Bought a mask and a cane to compliment the suit. You will need to steam it to get the wrinkles out. Very happy with my purchase.

Great fit, great look, and the top hat that comes with it is actually not that bad at all, once you put it together. This costume, with a masquerade mask, won me first place in a costume contest. Ignore any bad reviews. This is a great costume piece!

I would give this 3 1/2 stars.This was purchased for my husband. The size was fine - he is 5'10'' and about 200 lbs. But the quality of the fabric was not very good. I read the other reviews, and saw good responses, so I guess I had high hopes.He got this as a Phantom of the Opera costume. Mostly we needed a cape, and this one looked good. As other reviews said, the hat is not good at all, but we didn't need the hat. The buttons on the vest are coming off, so we stitched them back on, but the vest looked (and felt) really cheap, so he opted not to wear it at all. He wore the red neckerchief with the cape, (along with black dress pants and a white dress shirt that he already owned) along with a phantom of the opera mask, and that was a good enough costume.Over all the costume is ok, but not amazing. The quality is pretty dodgy. Also, the cape is longer than shown in the photo, and my husband is 5'10''

I actually got this costume as a Phantom of the Opera outfit for my boyfriend for a Halloween party. It was very nice for the cost. The clasps on the collar and ascot are a little weird to figure out at first, but the cape is a nice length and the vest looks nice. The only bad part was ironing the cape and collar!

Quality and Appearance-------------------------------------The material quality on this costume was very surprising in how good it was. Everything seems to be attached solidly to the material (buttons, velcro, etc), so it holds up reasonably well. It actually looks very close to what the pictures show, though there are a few caveats.Sizing----------------------The sizing on these costumes in general is ridiculous, being way too wide for normal people. I'm a 5'7" guy with a wide athletic body-type, and the shoulders fit about right for me on the vest, however the cape is too wide at the shoulders. The height of the cape is about what's shown on me, but the width of the waist of the vest is absurd (wider than the shoulders). Because of how this particular costume is designed however, the incredible girth of the vest can be handled by safety pinning the excess at the small of the back (yup, it's a full vest and not just a front of one), and then covering it with the cape without affecting the appearance of the vest too significantly. Alternatively the material is good enough quality that you could probably actually alter it like a regular formal vest if you were particularly ambitious. I got the Large (the only size available and also the one the package declares to be "standard"), and the height is perfect despite my smaller than usual stature in that regard.Problems------------------The cravat is one that velcros around the neck and has a button on either side where a collar button would go. The design has loops of sturdy ribbon sewn onto the inside of the cape at about mid shoulder, and these are supposed to go around the buttons on the cravat to hold the cape in place. Unfortunately the length of sturdy ribbon is excessive, so my very deep chest is insufficient to account for how much the cape tries to hang back from these long loops. It's compounded by the fact that the buttons on the cravat are the same gold buttons with long shanks connected to the back, and therefore they allow even more stretch in how far back the cape tries to hang off the shoulders. Either the buttons need to be replaced with cap buttons that don't have any shank behind them at all, or different buttons need to be added somewhere on the costume for the ribbons to attach to. Additionally the ribbons definitely need to be shortened since they're so long that they tend to come unhooked from the buttons they're attached to based on the big loop involved.The vest appears as a double-breasted vest, but only has buttons and button holes on ones side. The top overlaying side is the one with button holes on it, and they fit well with the buttons (the left column of buttons in the picture). In a real double breasted vest, the top layer actually has a second row of button holes for the other column of buttons, and all the buttons are attached to the bottom layer, with the second (right in the picture) column of buttons poking through these holes as well. On this costume, the second column of buttons is sewn directly onto the top layer instead, leaving a large swath of cloth on the bottom layer hanging with no attachment point. It tucks underneath the top layer so it's not immediately visible, but unless the vest is very tight on you, it tends to droop and shift until it's hanging out of the bottom of the vest.