Dress Up As Captain Malcolm Reynolds

Mal's costume is based on classic cowboy-wear. If you have the money (a LOT of money) there are sites out there that specialise in TV and Film replicas - Mal's coats and pistol, for example. If you don't have several hundred dollars, you can easily put together his outfit yourself (or a very close version of it).

Costume Elements

• Coat
• Shirt
• Trousers
• Suspenders
• Gun
• Boots
• Dog tags
• Spaceship

• Duster (coat) - the exact replica versions of Mal's 'brown coat' are very expensive, but you can buy them. There are increasingly cheaper custom made options out there as well, from costume companies and private creators. These will be made for your size, but will take longer to be made and shipped out.
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• Firefly Captain Malcolm Reynolds Cosplay Costume

• Otherwise just get a generic cowboy duster. It should be light brown ("mustard"), have a small collar and no shoulder flaps and hit just below the knee. There are real, decent quality dusters from US$90 and up, and there are lots of cheap gunfighter costume options available in the $30 range.
• This kid's version below left is pretty much perfect for a tiny Mal 

• Shirt - he wears eight or nine different ones, but always collared, buttoned, long sleeved shirt in a single colour. The red shirt is probably the most dramatic and best suited, colour-wise, and the one that's used the most in promotional art and screenshots, so is also the best known, but any plain, long-sleeved, collared, earth-coloured shirt would do. And I lied; the clay-brown shirt he wears fighting the Operative at the end of Serenity (the film) is actually subtly striped (or checked in large rectangles - hard to see!)
• E.g. Wrangler Men's Cowboy Cut Work Western Shirt
• Colours Mal definitely wears throughout the show include: brick red, grey-brown, dark brown, blue-grey, plain grey, black...

• Suspenders and trousers - pretty straight forward, just buy similar styles (for example the ones from Amazon below, or browse through the links afterward). The trousers have a stripe down the side, which you'll have to add yourself with ribbon.

• Mal wears various different suspenders - doesn't really matter which, although he seems to wear this light brown type the most, he also wears black ones and lighter brown - again, plain and practical and earth colours.

• Boots - riding boots will look fine, or pirate-style boots, with the flap cut off. His boots are actually low-cut shoes with glued on spats. 

• Belt, holster and gun - the belt is just a belt, the holster is a bit tricky but easily winged (or you can buy a readymade holster and belt), the pistol is the hardest part.
•  You can use another gun, but the only realistic versions are the (quite expensive) replicas listed below, like the Malcolm Reynolds Metal-plated Pistol Prop Replica. There's also the Captain Mal's Pistol Replica Resin Kit.`
• There are plenty of cheaper generic cowboy pistols on Amazon.

• Dog tags - Show that you fought for the Alliance in the Unification War with your own dog tags.
• ThinkGeek now sells Malcolm Reynolds Dog Tags. While these are optional, they also make an awesome little collectible for later.

           

• The ship! - Mal is nothing without his ship, unfortunately, he can't really ride around in it while on Earth. But you can always slip a Serenity Keychain into your pocket!

The replica of Mal's gun is available from ThinkGeek, as well as via Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk - only the last one will ship to countries outside the USA.