A Will Ferrell Complete Elf Hero Costume
New Line Cinema, 2003. Comprising a three-quarter length tailcoat of green wool with embroidered floral border and faux fur collar and cuffs, with 'Carelli Costumes' label inside with typescript detail, 'MR. FERRELL,' and handwritten detail, 'HERO-3'; a pair of yellow wool tights with large wooden buttons with similar 'Carelli Costumes' label inside inscribed, 'MR. FERRELL' in typescript, with oversized green embroidered suspenders; a black leather belt with oversized buckle inscribed, 'MR. FERRELL' in blue ink; a pair of elasticized plain black suspenders; a short-sleeved cream-colored t-shirt with a 'Calvin Klein' interior label inscribed, '1' in black ink; and a pair of black leather shoes with upturned curly elf toes, each inscribed, 'Hero-2' to interior in black ink. Worn by Will Ferrell as Buddy Hobbs (aka Buddy The Elf) in the perennial Christmas favorite, Elf. With two color photographs of Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf.
Provenance: Jon Berg, producer of Elf.
Footnotes:
Will Ferrell stars as the lovable Buddy The Elf in this quintessential Christmas movie. Buddy is a human who has been mistakenly raised by elves in the North Pole. When he hears that he has a human father in New York City, he sets off for Manhattan to find him. Will Ferrell wears an elf costume throughout the movie from the very beginning in the scenes at the North Pole to the end of the movie when Buddy saves Christmas by rescuing Santa and his sleigh.

This costume is labeled 'Hero 3'; the Hero 1 and Hero 2 costumes have been sold at auction previously.