Honestly, for the price, you're getting a decent costume. I definitely wish I'd been aware of a few things before I bought it, though. The cloth 'base' material under the fur is thin, and the colour is MUCH more an 'Irish Setter red' than the brown you see here. This is not necessarily a con, since the fur makes the costume pretty warm by itself. Honestly, you just have to be careful not to tear the material by putting the costume on too roughly, and outside in natural light the reddish brown has a great natural tone. The vinyl parts mostly come back to shape with careful application of a hair dryer but the feet never came back to shape and had to have newspaper wadded up and stuffed into the toes to shape them up nicely. I wore the full costume outside over the course of a few days, three or so hours each time in temps down around 35 degrees, and with minimal cold weather protection it was comfortably warm. The coldest night I wore a full set of thermal underwear (top and bottom) and a black tee-shirt, regular socks and shoes, and I was having to hold my hands with the fingers up in the air so the sweat would drip out of the gloves when I was performing regular activity (walking, talking to people, posing for pics.) The mask fits well, with a sort of rubber under-mask to fit your head, allowing the outside of the mask to 'wear' more naturally. Again, though, you're gonna sweat, even in the coldest conditions. My breath's condensation gathered inside the mask and puddled in the chin portion, so every night I had to tip the mask once in a while to let the water out. The most important thing I have to point out about the costume is the ridiculously short legs. I stand 72" tall, 215 pounds with a 34" inseam. For comparison's sake, I wear a 44L suit coat, a 16" collar, 36/34 Levis, a 12W shoe and a 7 3/4" hat. The costume itself fit well, if a tiny bit snug in the shoulders. However, the inseam is no more than 30", which is ridiculous when the sleeves fit me perfectly (I have LONG arms as well.) I can't understand this--why are the legs so short if the arms are so very long? They would bunch up on a shorter person, no question about it. I was forced to buy some similar fur material at the last minute to add gaiters to the ends of the legs, so that I wouldn't have a LOT of skin showing. Not cool, but doable if you have long legs and just have to have this costume. Overall, not a bad getup. The vinyl is thick and well-formed, with good detail work and painting, and even my size 12W shoes fit into the feet, tho I had to stuff paper into the toes to help bulk them into round. Just be well aware that the legs are SHORT.
