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I attended my first PaizoCon last year and had a great time, and I thought this year it would be fun to cosplay. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a seamstress.
I want to try cosplaying Mythic Feiya. I can assemble the base of the outfit from a long tiered black skirt and overbust corset, and the headdress should be manageable if I can get my hands on a hot glue gun and feathers of sufficient size. But how on earth to do the draperies over her skirt?
Anyone have any suggestions? And is anyone else currently planning or working on a Pathfinder costume?
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Hey, sorry I am not artistically talented, in any way, but please, oh please, try and get some pictures if you do this and share them with us.
ALSO, hey! Paizo, do you have a thread for costumes and Paizo con pics hidden somewhere?
Hi Lilijobel,
Can you link to a picture of Mythic Feiya (sorry, I only know her APG version)? I sew, but don't really cosplay, but I might be able to help you out with some ideas.
Thanks Orthos.
Lilijobel, I PMed you a long, rambling suggestion for how you could do it. Let me know where it didn't make sense. :)
Also, if you have access to a sewing machine and commercial patterns and want to go that route I can point you to some that might work. You said you were "not much of a seamstress", so I guessed that wasn't the direction you wanted to go.
Griffid, thanks. I will try the drape-and-pin approach.
If this works out decently I do plan on taking pictures.
Looks relatively straightforward.
Not much, but found some pathfinder cosplay images at Deviantart.
Think I'd be amazed if someone turned up in cosplay at a con, haven't seen that since about the 90's!
Australia, we are doing it wrong.
I actually got banned (temporarily) from a PbP forum website for posting a link to DeviantArt
O_o
What on earth for?
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You shouldn't, that was clearly a case of someone getting a bug in their ear for no good reason.
access to a site that had adult artwork (this was many years ago).
As opposed to the rest of the internet where adult artwork and hardcore gonzo is hard to find... :p
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I absolutely love seeing Pathfinder cosplay and for anyone out there who has pictures of costumes, if you send me pictures at cosplay@paizo.com I will put them on the Paizo facebook page in our cosplay photo album (and possibly the Paizo blog). Send along the name of who/what you are cosplaying and your name (as you wish to be credited).
Happy sewing/casting/painting!
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I'm back! And I've got the majority of the outfit put together. This lacks the fox, a real staff, and the makeup, but is complete otherwise.
http://i59.tinypic.com/hv3z92.jpg
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Fun fact: the tiny skull on the headdress is actually a novelty eraser. And I made the overskirt from thrift store curtain material.
Pretty good! My suggestion would be to try and get more feathers for the headdress part, as yours looks a little light on those compared to the image, and try and find a slightly different skull (her's appears to be a bird skull). The only other thing would be a slightly more ornate corset, but that's more of an extra I'd imagine.
Great job Lilijobel!
Jon, respectfully, I disagree about a more ornate corset. "Regular" Feiya has a pretty elaborate corset, but "mythic" Feiya has a simple black one, like the one Lilijobel is wearing.
You look great! All you need is a fox now... :P
Every year I plan to put together a cosplay of Lirianne, because I really think I could pull it off.
But I'm an artsy type, and I get distracted, and then it turns into a 'Lirianne inspired costume, that doesn't totally look like Lirianne anymore."
So. Have to work on that.
Wow. That is pretty dang good. I have always wanted to go to a con and cosplay, but I have never had the extra funds to do so (something ALWAYS comes up and sucks it all away).
Definitely a good looking costume.
Having done a fair bit of cosplay myself, here's a few suggestions:
For the waist wrap, try a softer, thinner material with less body, and ensure that it is long enough so that it can be gathered or pleated at the top. That will help it to drape properly from your waist without bunching up.
Also put your corset on over-top of the waist wrap. If the material is thinner and pleated properly it shouldn't be uncomfortable, and it will look more like the artwork.
If you want to pleat the fabric yourself, here's how I do it. Take your measuring tape and make tiny snips along the edge you are pleating. The spacing for these snips will alternate back and forth like so: 1-inch, 1/2-inch, 1-inch, 1/2 inch, etc. After you are done, you'll then fold the 1/2-inch sections over the 1-inch sections. (To make it symmetrical, start in the center and fold forward on each side from there.) You'll probably want to pin the folds in place as you go. After you're done with that, machine sew a few lines of basting (i.e. straight stitching) along the top to set the pleats. You can then iron them to smooth them out.
For the shinier trim on the edge of the wrap, you can try looking for 2-inch blanket trim in the Wright's Trim section of your local fabric store. As long as you don't pick too exotic of a color for the main fabric, a match shouldn't be too difficult.
Good luck, and have fun! :)