GoblinCityCosplay
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This doesn't look like a difficult project, just a time consuming and massively expensive one involving massive amounts of fabric. Remind me I said this when I'm crying and sewing the week before DragonCon. I'm starting with the base layers first since they look like the most work/biggest time sinks.
Sandy Powell has said that multiple versions of every part of this costume were made, including the hoop skirts. One version of the hoops had handles and was used solely for the scene where she runs down the stairs so Lilly Evans could actually lift the dress to do so. That's pretty much the only picture of the bare hoop skirt I could find but it's helpful:
It looks like an elliptical with a wired crinoline on top? For my version, I bought this elliptical pattern and a vintage petticoat pattern that I intend to modify by bringing the yoke up a bit and adding much more volume.
Elliptical is from Truly Victorian #103
Petticoat is a Simplicity 3737
I cannot for the life of me find the reference, but I saw a picture once of a behind the scenes of a photoshoot that Lilly Evans was doing in the Cinderella dress and it looked like she was wearing the skirt with a corset boned in a completely different pattern. Oh, I lied, here's the picture:
I'm still a bit torn between whether to do a double layer corset with a pageant hook and eye closure covering the lacings or to make it two separate corsets. It's obvious from the refs that she's got two separate boning layers going on:
In the second one, with the good view of the bertha, you can see that there's only one layer, which makes me think it might be a boned fashion corset over an actual corset layer? There was another pic going around that had great backlighting on the bertha where you could see the corset also had off the shoulder straps. That will be fun.
Here's my fabric test for the corset:
Direct sunlight, no editing, about three layers of fabric. I think it might be too dark.
I just got all of my hoop supplies so I'll be working on that with progress pictures to come. I'll tackle the petticoat after, but I'm still waiting on around 100 yards of fabric to come in.
Sandy Powell has said that multiple versions of every part of this costume were made, including the hoop skirts. One version of the hoops had handles and was used solely for the scene where she runs down the stairs so Lilly Evans could actually lift the dress to do so. That's pretty much the only picture of the bare hoop skirt I could find but it's helpful:
It looks like an elliptical with a wired crinoline on top? For my version, I bought this elliptical pattern and a vintage petticoat pattern that I intend to modify by bringing the yoke up a bit and adding much more volume.
Elliptical is from Truly Victorian #103
Petticoat is a Simplicity 3737
I cannot for the life of me find the reference, but I saw a picture once of a behind the scenes of a photoshoot that Lilly Evans was doing in the Cinderella dress and it looked like she was wearing the skirt with a corset boned in a completely different pattern. Oh, I lied, here's the picture:
I'm still a bit torn between whether to do a double layer corset with a pageant hook and eye closure covering the lacings or to make it two separate corsets. It's obvious from the refs that she's got two separate boning layers going on:
In the second one, with the good view of the bertha, you can see that there's only one layer, which makes me think it might be a boned fashion corset over an actual corset layer? There was another pic going around that had great backlighting on the bertha where you could see the corset also had off the shoulder straps. That will be fun.
Here's my fabric test for the corset:
Direct sunlight, no editing, about three layers of fabric. I think it might be too dark.
I just got all of my hoop supplies so I'll be working on that with progress pictures to come. I'll tackle the petticoat after, but I'm still waiting on around 100 yards of fabric to come in.
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