Plush Spider Costume
Eight legs, none of them theirs.
This is the loudest thing in the range and one of the least restrictive, which sounds contradictory until you notice that everything dramatic about it happens outside the animal rather than on it.
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- Eight wired plush legs that hold their shape
- Cotton panel over the shoulders, not the belly
- Neck band and body strap, both adjustable
- Black, red, or black and red together
- Same price in every size and colourway
Colour: Black
Size: S
Why you'll love it
Made for happy, healthy pets
Dramatic without being restrictive
The legs project sideways from a panel that sits across the shoulders. Nothing wraps a limb and nothing crosses the belly, so an animal can walk, sit and lie down normally while looking like it has doubled in width.
The legs hold a pose
Each leg has a wire core, so they stay where you bend them instead of drooping after the first shake. That is the difference between a spider silhouette and eight bits of fabric hanging down.
No price maze
Every combination costs the same. Choosing the large in black and red does not cost more than the small in black, which is unusual in seasonal costume ranges.
Good fit if
- A costume that has to be visible from across a room
- Cats, who take shoulder panels better than sleeves
- Animals that walk normally in a harness
- Rooms and gardens without narrow doorways
Look elsewhere if
- Your house is all tight corners and cat flaps
- The animal already dislikes a harness across the shoulders
- You need something machine washable
The legs do the work, not the fabric
The whole costume is a cotton panel across the shoulders with eight plush legs sewn out from it. Nothing covers the torso, nothing passes under the belly and no limb goes through anything. What the animal actually wears is closer to a harness than a garment, and the spider effect comes from the volume projecting sideways into the air.
That is a much easier ask than a sleeved outfit. An animal in a full suit spends the evening aware of fabric against its skin; an animal in this notices a band across the shoulders for about a minute and then gets on with things, right up until it tries to walk through somewhere narrow.
Wire cores, and why they matter
Each leg has a wire running down it. Bend one and it stays bent, which means the silhouette holds through an evening instead of collapsing into eight limp strips after the first shake. It also means you can shape them: swept back and slightly up is far more practical indoors than straight out sideways.
The wire is also the reason this cannot go in a washing machine. A cycle will kink the cores permanently and mat the plush, and neither comes back. Sponge the panel, let it dry flat, and store it without anything heavy on top.
Three colourways at one price
Black, red, and a black-and-red mix, and unusually every combination costs the same. There is no premium for the large or for the two-tone version, so the choice is purely about how it will photograph.
Black disappears on a black cat and looks superb on a tabby or a cream-coated dog. Red is the opposite and is the one to pick for a dark animal. The mixed version carries the most detail close up and flattens into dark grey at any distance, so it suits a portrait rather than a room shot.
In the box
Everything you need
- Spider costume with attached legs, neck band and body strap
How it works
Simple, from basket to doorstep
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Delivered
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The details
Specifications
- Material
- Cotton panel, plush legs with wire cores
- Colourways
- Black, Red, Black and Red
- Sizes
- S, M, L
- Fastening
- Neck band plus a strap behind the front legs
- Weight
- 108g to 132g by size
- Care
- Spot clean; the wire cores rule out machine washing
Size guide
| Size | Packed weight |
|---|---|
| S | 108g |
| M | 126g |
| L | 132g |
The supplier publishes no measurements for this one, only shipping weights, so there is no chart to reproduce and inventing one would be worse than saying so. Judge by the animal instead: the panel spans the shoulders, so small suits a cat or a toy breed, medium a terrier, and large anything up to roughly spaniel width. If your animal wears a harness, the size that fits that will fit this.
Good questions
Before you buy
Spot clean only. The legs are wire-cored, and a wash cycle will kink the wire and flatten the plush. Sponge the panel and let it dry away from a radiator.
They add roughly a body width on each side, so yes, in a narrow hallway. Bend them upward rather than straight out if your house has tight corners and your animal is going to move around in it.
Black on a light-coated animal, red on a dark one. The black and red version has the most detail up close but reads as dark grey from across a room.
They should not. They project outward from shoulder height rather than hanging down, so they sit clear of the floor on a standing animal. On a very low-slung dog the rear pair can brush the ground, and bending them upward fixes it.
The red eyes on the black version are the only separate components. They are stitched rather than glued, but check them before each wearing and stop using it if either works loose.
Last reviewed 30 August 2026