Percival Grave's costume from Fantastic Beasts

ATL Kenobi · Sep 29, 2016

I like Percival's outfit, so we (my wife and I) are working on creating one.

He surely must be cold because it looks like he's wearing:
a large collar white dress shirt complete with collar bar*
a black tie with white accents
a vest with a white pique lining
a suit coat with red piping
an overcoat with white piping and lining
a gray basket weave scarf with gray fringe
dress pants
black boots

*One of the first things I notice was the collar bar with what looked to be some kind of black fringe. After staring at it for a while, I slowly came to believe that the fringe was actually a pair of scorpions.

At DragonCon I found a pair of silver scorpion charms which I painted black and wired to the silver collar bar I got off of eBay.

Then yesterday I captured the best image yet and now I'm positive they're scorpions.

The basket weave scarf I found now appears to be less than 100% screen accurate, but it's close enough for me. I did have to add a fringe to it.

I have many other captured images of Percival which I can post if there's interest. Also need to post some pictures of the completed pants, vest and overcoat.

ATL

MrToast · Oct 14, 2016

Ooh, I need to follow this.
Looks pretty dashing so far

ATL Kenobi · Nov 16, 2016

Wore my Percival Graves outfit to the premier last night. The movie is fantastic!!! I had many more folks admiring the costume after the movie...

ATL

edit - Still wondering what the significance of the scorpions might be??

ATL Kenobi · Nov 30, 2016

Here's the finished costume which was actually pretty much finished back in late September. Now that the movie is out, there are probably a few notable discrepancies, but since, in all likelihood, Percival won't be in any future films, the costume will stay the way it is. We have since added the white "over-vest".

I believe I look more like Percival Graves than Collin Farrell.

ATL

PotionMistress · Nov 30, 2016

Wow, you look WONDERFUL! Great job indeed!

ATL Kenobi · Dec 4, 2016

PotionMistress said:
Wow, you look WONDERFUL! Great job indeed!

Thanks PotionMistress

So there's this fashion accessory that Percival has:

After finding a descent resolution image, I figured the necklace part was some sort of braided leather cord. Also realized that since the braid wraps through the DH symbol, I'd have to braid it myself. :wacko

I found this 1mm dark brown leather cord at Hobby Lobby. There are several YouTube videos on how to do a 4-strand braid, problem is is that they all seem to use 2 different colors cords which helps immensely. So after watching one of the videos frame by frame and starting over a dozen times, I finally got the hang of it:

The bits of blue tape helped distinguish the different strands which were something like 6 feet long each(before I started braiding).

OhMyStarLord · Dec 4, 2016

Whoa! This is brilliant! Excellent work! You certainly give Colin a run for his money looking like Graves.

Did you make the coat yourself? I just saw the movie again tonight and I finally noticed the way the sleeves are done. I wanted to cosplay him before, but that coat is too gorgeous to not own to just wear anyway.

ATL Kenobi · Dec 5, 2016

Hi OhMyStarLord,

My wife does all the sewing machine work.

She used a McCall's pattern M7374 for the coat, and added a collar from Butterick B6103 which she had to enlarge (I believe she called it a shawl collar?). I can remember the words that were flying as she tried to figure out how to do the white piping on the sleeves.:rolleyes

ATL

OhMyStarLord · Dec 5, 2016

You anticipated my next question! Thank you! If I may ask another question, what sort of fabric did you use for the white trim?

ATL Kenobi · Dec 6, 2016

OhMyStarLord,

For my costume, the lining of the coat was what my wife called imitation satin:

For the "overvest" she used a white pique:

Which I like a lot.

However, after we watched the movie (twice), she thinking both the lining and the vest are corduroy or corduroy-like material probably wool.

Probably need to go see the movie again to be sure.:lol

ATL

Egon Spengler · Dec 7, 2016

You look great man! Awesome job! Where was that photo taken? Perfect setting!

ATL Kenobi · Dec 7, 2016

Egon Spengler said:
You look great man! Awesome job! Where was that photo taken? Perfect setting!

Universal Studios in Orlando

ATL

ATL Kenobi · Dec 9, 2016

Now from ThinkGeek, the Fantastic Beasts Percival Tie and Pin Set - Exclusive. Although I already had a tie, I wanted the more accurate bar, so I ordered the set. Since they shipped it in a plastic bag, both scorpion tails were broke off.

I called ThinkGeek, and they promptly replaced the set and did not require the first to be returned. Of course, the second set was also packaged in a plastic bag.

, but it survived.

One note, the "gems" in this reproduction are a vivid emerald green. After some searching, I found some aqua colored 4mm square stones and I'm going try and replace the ones on the bar.

As for the tie, it's close but not 100%. I don't believe the "spots" are accurate. I'll post a comparison picture soon with a tie I'd gotten off of eBay.

ATL

ATL Kenobi · Dec 9, 2016

The tie on the left I got off of eBay (Pierre Cardin), the tie on the right is the one from Think Geek which is much wider and probably more 1920ish. I don't believe the "spots" on either one are 100% screen accurate, but for cosplay, they'll work.

ATL

OhMyStarLord · Dec 10, 2016

So last night I had the cheapest go ever at Graves. I found out about the Barnes and Noble event on Tuesday, I had a coat I deemed acceptable and his wand so I went for it. I got the Think Geek tie and the pins from Amazon so they got here in time, the rest was just stuff I had and a thrift store purchase of a white vest to rip the collar off of and pin to my vest, but overall I'm pleased. Also my hair was already cut like that so I just threw in some bleach and black dye I had already. People kept asking if I was in transition between Graves and Grindelwald, might try to play more into that next time I do the costume.

I did also had to just take apart the tie pin so it would stay on my collar, it was the last thing to come in so I couldn't do much more, but how on earth is that meant to stay on my collar? Have you tried it out yet,

TheGingerDoctor · Dec 11, 2016

Had the opportunity to examine these costumes up close at the Warner Bros. lot today. Thought I'd jump in for reference materials.

The outfit is 5 layers and a scarf. The shirt is a white-on-white jacquard cotton. The under-waistcoat (a separate piece from the main waistcoat) is a white... silk? The waistcoat is a black silk twill with covered buttons in the same fabric. The suit coat is a textured silk fabric with covered buttons in the same fabric, trimmed with a red cord instead of piping. The overcoat is a long-haired cashmere/Lurex. The sleeves have a long vent lined with the same fabric as the under-waistcoat, and where the seam begins, a little bit of that lining fabric pokes through, which is what makes that white line. At the armpit, the sleeve is attached to a stretchy fabric, probably for ease of use. The scarf is a dark, desaturated navy blue silk.

The tie looks like a plain black silk tie with the design painted on manually by the costume department. The scorpion collar clips are just as badass in real life as you'd expect. The pants are made of the same black silk as the waistcoat. The boots were custom - good luck finding something close. The gaiters are leather and pretty thick.

Happy to answer any questions

Cameron1138 · Dec 11, 2016

Nice closeups, now I'm feeling tempted to cosplay Graves at some point in the future.

spiderling · Dec 13, 2016

Wow thank you so so much! These are the best reference photos I've seen!

spiderling · Dec 13, 2016

Here's a short little article about Colleen Atwood's designing and making of the costume: https://www.pottermore.com/news/the-touch-of-glamour-in-colin-farrell-fantastic-beasts-costume

ATL Kenobi · Feb 1, 2017

OhMyStarLord said:
So last night I had the cheapest go ever at Graves. I found out about the Barnes and Noble event on Tuesday, I had a coat I deemed acceptable and his wand so I went for it. I got the Think Geek tie and the pins from Amazon so they got here in time, the rest was just stuff I had and a thrift store purchase of a white vest to rip the collar off of and pin to my vest, but overall I'm pleased. Also my hair was already cut like that so I just threw in some bleach and black dye I had already. People kept asking if I was in transition between Graves and Grindelwald, might try to play more into that next time I do the costume.

I did also had to just take apart the tie pin so it would stay on my collar, it was the last thing to come in so I couldn't do much more, but how on earth is that meant to stay on my collar? Have you tried it out yet,

I wish I would have heeded your warning. The scorpion collar clip is not made correctly. I couldn't get it to stay on either. I had better success after I opened up one of the rings and inserted a safety pin as an additional link but still had problems with it.

Here's the Graves costume:

And a variation:

My wife and I actually won the costuming contest the next day but we were wearing Snape and McGonagall.

ATL

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