over-complicating costumes since forever ago
Recreations and original costumes not bound by historical fashion.
Taken from instagram posts 🙂 The bodice- so many gathers! It’s a mix of hand sewing and machining. Just need to add in the crossover support and then I can actually sew the hood and cape and sleeves in. Skirt progress. Two hours for the gathers and beads, and yet I am keen to keep…
Finally got the last pieces of the bodice cut 🙂 This was exciting because yes it’s two layers even for these pieces- it looks really weird as a single layer. But I knew there was some clever use of stretch and basically was able to show it 🙂 This is a piece from the left…
I managed to get a one month subscription to Autodesk Remake (not easy with geo-locking and my country not being specified, and then I wasn’t sure where in the app to put my code (hint- cog-> welcome screen.) but so worth it! I’ll do this again later in the year as I have so much…
Sierra Boggess shared this image yesterday and can you see what has made me so excited? The fabric is thin. Well fairly thin- the flash and angle allows us to see her skin across the arm while the fabric looks more opaque closer to the armscye (where the fabric turns and follows the curve of…
Home Henderson Auckland!!! !!!!!!! I can’t really justify 27kg of the stuff but they have the S foam 130 flex! http://www.barnesnz.co.nz/polyurethane/s-foam-130-flex-foam-1392 This is what I used for my super squishy and very flexible Togruta headpieces 🙂 It’s a bit tricky when you don’t have a perfect mold that includes headcast but this time I do…
I am ready to wear the daggy clothing with all the latex marks today, also to then work on my Cleves frock indoors, or tool the rest of Ahsoka’s armour. Whichever second activity is chosen will be down to working in the room or away from any potential to bump into the latex. Yes I…
Mothma leapt to the top of the sewing queue due to realising just how complex her robes are. in terms of construction 🙂 Thanks to several sources but mainly Kay Dee: These photos clearly show the position and shape of the seams. Of note is the shallow princess seam (it is not very curvy) and…
Yes, today is dedicated to getting latex in all the molds. Possibly also making latex molds, possibly also getting my last scraps of forex (foamed PVC) and various small costume parts sorted. But definitely all the latex as I am going to try and get a cast of my Shaak Ti montral as well as…
I don’t like to use patterns, I find infinitely more success with drafting (more than drafting, and drafting more successful than using an existing pattern.) It has everything to do with modern pattern blocks. In general bodies vary each generation but there is a fashionable shape as well as a fashionable size. My shape goes…
So having practiced so many times with my Ahsoka molds, and previous methods with Shaak Ti.. I may actually be able to use what I have learnt with Ahsoka to use my Shaak Ti molds again 🙂 (Photo above: metal shelves with cement molds of different sizes, bottom shelf supporting in particular the two part molds…