Travis Bickle Costume - Taxi Driver - Travis Bickle Cosplay

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Fans of Taxi Driver starring Robert DeNiro will love the idea of making their own Travis Bickle costume. The character is possibly the most iconic character in movie history and a Travis Bickle costume is an ideal halloween costume, fancy dress costume, or cosplay. Above all else it is a simple costume to make.

Travis Bickle Costume – Taxi Driver

The most difficult part of making your own Travis Bickle costume is the unique hairstyle the character adopts at the end of the Taxi Driver movie. You can, however, easily mimic this through the use of a wig. The rest is straight forward if you want to dress like Travis Bickle. Here is everything you will need to make your own amazing Travis Bickle costume.

Travis Bickle Military Jacket

Travis Bickle Costume - Taxi Driver - Travis Bickle Jacket

The first part of your Travis Bickle costume should be the jacket that Robert DeNiro wears in the Taxi Driver movie.

The Travis Bickle jacket is green and is a military style jacket.

There are plenty of Travis Bickle style jackets that will work here.

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Travis Bickle Shirt

Travis Bickle wears a variety of different shirts throughout the Taxi Driver movie.

There are scenes where he wears a chequered shirt and there are scenes where he wears a plain color shirt which has short sleeves.

Either style of shirt will be awesome if you want to dress like Travis Bickle.

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Travis Bickle Sunglasses

While not essential to the Travis Bickle costume, a pair of sunglasses certainly do look cool.

The sunglasses that Travis Bickle wears in Taxi Driver are aviator style glasses.

The also have dark lenses with a gold frame.

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Travis Bickle Gun

You will need a replica gun as part of your Travis Bickle costume.

The famous gun used by Travis Bickle is a Smith & Wesson Model 29, better known as the world famous .44 Magnum.

A replica of the .44 Magnum is essential for making your own Travis Bickle costume.

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Travis Bickle Gun Holster

There is a hugely iconic scene in Taxi Driver. This is the scene where Travis Bickle stands in front of the his mirror and says the words – Are you talking to me?

We see that he wears a shoulder gun holster which would look excellent for your Travis Bickle fancy dress.

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Travis Bickle Boots

In the movie Taxi Driver there are only a handful of scenes where we get to see the boots worn by Travis Bickle.

The scenes that do show Travis Bickle’s boots show that he wears a pair of light brown cowboy boots.

A pair of cowboy boots would be considered movie accurate when making your Travis Bickle fancy dress.

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Travis Bickle We Are The People Button

Travis Bickle Costume - Taxi Driver - Travis Bickle Campaign Button

A really nice touch to any Travis Bickle costume would be to wear a political campaign button.

There are many scenes in the Taxi Driver movie where Travis Bickle is seen wearing a large campaign button. The slogan – We Are The People” are wrote on the button.

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Travis Bickle Hair – Travis Bickle Wig

Travis Bickle Costume - Taxi Driver - Travis Bickle Hair

Possibly the hardest part of making a Travis Bickle cosplay is the hairstyle that the character has.

While you could simply shave your hair into a mohawk style this obviously has real world implications. The easiest way to get hair like Travis Bickle is to wear a mohawk hairstyle wig.