Mad Max beyond Thunderdome

General

Costume Design by Norma Moriceau. A great resource for costume pictures is the Mad Max beyond Thunderdome souvenir magazine.

Max

Jacket: Max wears the same exact jacket as he did in Mad Max 2 (The Roadwarrior). Max's jacket shows signs of wear in the large black stitching on his shoulder (bearclaw mohawker damage from Mad Max 2), his collar, his shoulder seam, his elbow, and a few stitches where his sleeve zipper used to be. The jacket's zipper is missing a few teeth as well. For more info, see Special Topics: Jackets

Trousers: Black leather trousers with no back pockets, cut in a general "jeans" pattern. Large black stitching can be seen on the crotch area. Zipper is possibly broken.

Boots: Max wears his MFP boot on his right foot, which has had some tyre tread added to the soles, and a cowboy boot on his left foot. For more info, see Special Topics: Boots

Shirt: Black cotton sleeveless shirt, probably made from scratch.

Shoulder Pad: Right-hand side Rawlings Crusader football shoulder pad plate attached to football shoulder pad arch padding by 2 one-inch-wide leather straps. One belt approximately one-half-inch wide riveted to bottom of padding, fastened under the arm. Some diluted white paint was possibly applied to the pad for weathering. For more info, see my detailed tutorial: How to Make Max's Shoulder Pad

Tunic: Black long-sleeved tunic, approximately knee length. The neck opening extends approximately down to navel level. Material: most likely a cotton muslin.
Belt: Max wears two belts. One of them has ammunition shoulder straps attached to it, and is a British style belt. This belt's brass buckle reads, "Astore Police". My only guess on this is that it could be a British police buckle from Astore, Pakistan (formerly British-ruled India).

Turban and Cloak: Max wears a black turban and a black cloak (looks like a cape) during the beginning of the movie. The black turban is made of black cotton bubble gauze (at Spotlight's in Australia, it was called cheesecloth). If you are making a turban, use a piece that is 1/2 meter x 6 meters or 18 inches x 6 yards. The cloak comes down to the ankles, and is open on the sides and the front.

Miscellaneous: Max has some sort of laced-up medical support bandage on his knee. Max's silver whistle is known as a naval bosun whistle.

See Also Shotguns

Aunt Entity

From Rolling Stone Magazine, August 1985:
"The dress Moriceau concocted for Entity is an expressionist classic: a seventy-pound soldered amalgam of dog muzzles, coat hangers and chicken wire, the whole overlaid with gleaming chain-mail butcher aprons and accessorized with pendulant auto-spring earrings. The accompanying wig, styled to echo the movie's male plumage, required Tina to shave her head for proper fitting. She offered no protest."

Bartertown Guards

The overwhelming majority of the male guards wear Rawlings CP-66 football shoulder pads. They have a rubber mat on the front, riveted on using the front lace holes. Many of the pads have black hair on their right shoulder. On top of the pads, you can find a variety of different decorations and car parts, ranging from reflectors to rearview mirrors to marker lamps. There is one marker lamp in particular that is used very often on the costumes, which is only available in Australia. It is a teardrop shaped, chrome and red lamp. The ones I bought are Narva brand marker lamps, part no. 86360. They are a common sight in Australia. The acorn-shaped light is a Chrome Marker Light, 80069, which I ordered from Big Jim's.
The mohawks range in colour, and stand about 30 cm/ 12 in. high. The hair runs longer in the rear. To keep the hair up, I would strongly recommend some kind of inner reinforcement. The mohawk has black straps, 1 cm wide, with a plastic or leather chinpiece attached. Two straps come from the top of the mohawk, down the sides, with loops in the ends. One strap comes around the back of the neck and to the chin, through the loops of the other straps, and buckles together.
The guards sometimes wear sun-goggles made of motocross goggles with full mask faceguards. The lens is replaced with "bubble goggles", which are covered in pantyhose. I found that motocross goggles and full face masks came in few styles, and tended to be expensive, so I worked with paintball goggles and mask instead.
The guards wear wide leather belts accessorized with various car emblems, including a Buick emblem and a vintage Harley-Davidson horn cover (accented with red paint). I bought a "Classic Horn" from a Harley-Davidson dealership. It's a reproduction of their old horns from the 30's and 40's. The belts measure about 7 in. on the front and back, taper on the side bottom edge (very important when wearing with padded football pants), and are held together by 4 buckles on the rear. Long hair is attached and hangs from the front and rear of the belt.
The guards wear baseball shinguards on their arms and legs. The shinguards on their legs are accented on the tops with hair. (I like to think that all of the hair found on the guards' costumes comes from the people they have killed and scalped.) The guards wear padded football pants under black football tights. The costumes are accented throughout with strips of leather, and red mini reflectors.