I managed to put together a Cosplay in 3 HOURS!!! I'm very excited that I was also able to sew a dress for the first time with NO Pattern!!
This weekend a friend invited me to a Disney Themed party... it was at her dance studio (so I always feel it still needs to look good-ish) and then we were going to see an awesome Drag Show. So what does my mind do?? I panic (like any good cosplayer) about what I can wear that will be recognizable, cost me little to no money, and still be comfortable to wear while dancing and watching a show.
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So my best friend decided to be Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians so of course (as a typical cosplayer) I decided I needed to be a Dalmatian. So the hunt started!
As a good little aging Gunk (Gothy Punk) I searched high and low and realized that I have NO white clothing (other than one dress shirt for work). So I thought maybe I should be a different character... but after searching (yet again) high and low and in all the random bins of clothes I have, I realized that my wardrobe mainly consists of horizontal stripped shirts, comic t-shirts. Epic Sigh.
Plan two... dig through every fabric bin I have and see what I can find to make something Disney-eque out of. I found a nice sized piece of white fabric (YAY), and I had just bought a small section of white fabric and small section of black fabric. This means that the morning of the party I pull out my sewing machine (and pinterest) to make my first dress without a pattern. I used Oh Oh Blog's lovely dress pattern as a guideline to cut my fabric but I had to make some adjustments due to needing to line the fabric and to make it fit properly. I added in ties to the one side for fit (and because I was silly and made a mistake) then glue gun'd the spots.... all in all I was quite pleased with the results.
So what do you think?? Not bad for a 3 hour Dalmatian costume?? And it still was sharp enough to wear out afterwards.
Until next time.
Keep on, Geekin' on.
Angie
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