How to create your own Progressive "Flo" costume
78Sample apron and buttons
Create your own Progressive "Flo" Apron
You will need:
-Plain white apron
-Iron-on transfer paper (Found at any office supply or craft store)
-Cardboard and white paper
-Safety pins
-Red, black, blue, and yellow markers
Now, lets begin.
1. THE PROGRESSIVE APRON. Once you have your white polo shirt and white pants, the most essential part of your costume will be the apron. Craft stores do carry plain white aprons, but they sell quickly (especially during October). I would advise that you go to a chef store where they are guaranteed to have the apron you want for about $5.00. After you have purchased your apron, you will need to print off the Progressive logo onto Iron-On T-Shirt transfer paper. Start by copying and pasting the logo onto Paint or Microsoft Word, and reverse the image (so that it isn't backwards when you transfer the image to the apron). Print off the logo and cut around the logo so there's hardly any excess paper surrounding it. Place the iron-on logo face down in the top center of your apron, and iron it on (DO NOT USE STEAM!!). Make sure you have thoroughly ironed the image onto the apron before your remove the paper. After you have removed the paper DO NOT touch the hot iron onto the ironed-on image. You will smear the image and ruin your iron.
2. FLO'S BUTTONS. Cut out a circle from cardboard, and use that cardboard circle to trace an identical circle from plain white paper. These will be used for your "I Love Insurance" button. Next, cut out a cardboard rectangle, and identical white paper rectangle. These will be used for your "Flo name-tag". Glue the circles together, and the rectangles together, using a glue stick. This will make it so the paper doesn't wrinkle or shrivel up like it does with wet glue substances. I have posted pictures of my name tags. You may copy "I [heart] Insurance" and "Flo" illustrations for your buttons. Tape safety pins to the backs of them, and voila! You have your flare.
Combine the apron with a white polo shirt, white pants, black sneakers, a blue headband, Mod styled hair, heavy cat-like eyeliner and red lips stick. And voila! You have a Flo costume.
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Thank you so much for this! I was just about to spend $85 on a costume when I easily made my own! I'm using my little brother's pitch range gun for a pricing gun lol :)
I am so going this halloween as Flo. I love her!
My daughter, out of town, is making this costume for me to wear to my Halloween Party. She thought Flo should go as Flo. I think so too.
I look great. This was perfect.
This was uber helpful! Thanks bunches!!
This is great! Can someone please post a good link for the apron Progressive iron on? I cannot find a good one online and the one from Progressive will not let me rotate it! Thanks!
Take a picture of it with a mirror
This is great! My husband is going to be "Mayhem" from the AllState commercials and I am going to be Flo! Yay!
Instead of using the iron on paper for the Progressive logo, I'm going to use iron on letters from the craft store and just iron them directly onto my apron. We will see how that goes, I'm doing it this evening :)
Wassup?
i need a flo costume!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am 9 years old







graeme 12 months ago
it sounds complicated, but it sounds cool as well
P.S.- I love the commercials.