Modery
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Oh, wonderful to see this all in action! Nice end result as well
Jod Na Nawood | Captain Silvo Costume - Skeleton Crew
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Darthikari
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Hawk is a great friend of mine, his YouTube channel has lots of fantastic tutorials on all sorts of costumes and other builds. He made that buckle for me, he also helped me when I made my Mudtrooper jacket too….
jenf0arc
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You're looking fantastic! Yes let me know when the meetup is, I'd love to see everyone else's Silvos, I have a 3 day badge as well!
SJJ I remember you fondly from our Jyn research days and am delighted you are working on this thread as well, your eye for detail is exceptional and your help is so valuable!
Been working on the coat and the puzzle pieces of the facing and in the scene where the barrier comes down, the brightness of the barrier dissolution reveals the coat actually has a different type of fabric edging the facing/lower collar. As if the main coat is wool and the edge is a type of leather
I don't have the time to sort out this collar pattern for my current coat version and am keeping things much simpler to give the same shape effect but I found the detail really interesting. Will share some photos from my progress in a bit!
smithjohnj
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The new info on the collar detail is very interesting. As I postulated earlier I have always wondered if this was a "found and modified" real world coat. My "evidence" was what I call the button-hole covers, and the fact the "second collar" appeared to be an add-on attached to the applied leather yoke. You have added another layer. We all know how difficult it is to match the color and fabric when doing an add-on or any modification. This new information provides an interesting twist. By adding some trim to the "old coat" and then using the same trim fabric for the add-on you are guaranteed a perfect match. Even if this is NOT what was done in this specific case it is an idea I am going to keep in mind for future projects where I am making additions.
EDIT: Of course the most obvious evidence for using new trim on a "found" coat is that it is the best way to cover where you removed the old collar to turn it into a collarless neckline. For some reason it took all day for me to be able to edit this post and complete my observation.
EDIT: Of course the most obvious evidence for using new trim on a "found" coat is that it is the best way to cover where you removed the old collar to turn it into a collarless neckline. For some reason it took all day for me to be able to edit this post and complete my observation.
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smithjohnj
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The "added trim" idea also works in those situations where I have removed the fabric from the inside coat facings for reuse on more visible parts of the garment. This use of adding new trim would allow taking the full facing all the way to the inside lining. Two couple of inches sometimes makes all the difference.
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Darthikari
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Just wondering, the stand up collar that’s underneath the front collar, does it look like it’s the same material as the rest of the coat, or something different?
smithjohnj
Sr Member
From this recent image my observations are; the coat fabric extends to the frontward "collarless neckline or collarless collar". This has been trimmed with a second fabric. The second, or rearward "standing collar" is made from the same trim fabric. I would expect the undercollar of this rearward collar would use the same trim fabric. You can see on the collar edge where the two layers (collar and undercollar) are stitched together. These two layers are "quilted" with straight-line top-stitching. The stitching is parallel to the outside edge of the collar - probably coming in with mirrored angles from both outside edges. Somewhere in the middle there is probably a single topstitch line which run perpendicular the the collar to end and mitigate the angled stitching. (The rearward collar is the one I believe is attached to the yoke - and then the yoke is applied over the coat shoulders.) Hi-res, clear, images of the back of the coat and collar would be very helpful.
This is so cooooool!! I may have peed a little when he threw down and gave kudos to therpf. That is much appreciated and respected.
jenf0arc
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Progress pics with a. huge disclaimer: I decided to make this costume very late in my Star Wars Celebration Japan planning phase so I'm having to rush and cut corners and make things more imprecisely than the standards I normally try to aspire to but here's where I'm at in my "good enough" V1 of my Silvo build:
Shirt is done, I made the collar without looking frequently at the references and added a band that isn't there on the real thing but it lays correctly and fits correctly and it's fine enough for now. Fabric is a crepe shirting I bought from Mood Fabrics online
Coat is getting there. Sorry for all the threads everywhere it's been a lot of adjusting and seam-ripping and re-sewing. I ended up adding princess seams to the front because I just didn't have enough fabric to accommodate the spread a dart would require and 2 pieces fit on the fabric I had. I only bought 3 yards which I'm just *barely* making work! I broke 5 needles trying to sew both collars to the coat through all thicknesses before I realized (A) it's just impossible with the machine I own, and (B) it's not how the real coat was made, I can tell in the references after I looked again the inner collar is either congruous with the coat or sewn to it, and then the outer collar is sewn to the coat back right behind the inner collar I hope I'm describing that clearly. Fabric is an olive felted wool I also bought at Mood and all the pleather are just scraps from my stash. The puckering I'm going to try to fix before I finish putting the lining in. I'm saving using real leather for when I make a better version of this.
So still have tons of finishing to do and lining-sewing and edge topstiching and cuff-making, etc. Pants I'm probably going to quick modify some existing brown trousers because I'm so tight on time. Boot covers I'm working on, also going to make those out of pleather for now since the base boot I'm covering I chose from my closet due to its comfort rather than its accuracy. Then I imagine the pleather prototypes will serve as a pattern after Celebration for a leather version over a more accurate boot.
Shirt is done, I made the collar without looking frequently at the references and added a band that isn't there on the real thing but it lays correctly and fits correctly and it's fine enough for now. Fabric is a crepe shirting I bought from Mood Fabrics online
Coat is getting there. Sorry for all the threads everywhere it's been a lot of adjusting and seam-ripping and re-sewing. I ended up adding princess seams to the front because I just didn't have enough fabric to accommodate the spread a dart would require and 2 pieces fit on the fabric I had. I only bought 3 yards which I'm just *barely* making work! I broke 5 needles trying to sew both collars to the coat through all thicknesses before I realized (A) it's just impossible with the machine I own, and (B) it's not how the real coat was made, I can tell in the references after I looked again the inner collar is either congruous with the coat or sewn to it, and then the outer collar is sewn to the coat back right behind the inner collar I hope I'm describing that clearly. Fabric is an olive felted wool I also bought at Mood and all the pleather are just scraps from my stash. The puckering I'm going to try to fix before I finish putting the lining in. I'm saving using real leather for when I make a better version of this.
So still have tons of finishing to do and lining-sewing and edge topstiching and cuff-making, etc. Pants I'm probably going to quick modify some existing brown trousers because I'm so tight on time. Boot covers I'm working on, also going to make those out of pleather for now since the base boot I'm covering I chose from my closet due to its comfort rather than its accuracy. Then I imagine the pleather prototypes will serve as a pattern after Celebration for a leather version over a more accurate boot.
Seeing the collar straight up reminds me of how the shirt has the same option. I had at first thought it was random but it comes together with more formality, especially with the cavalry pants, than I had expected. The navy style shirt and now the coat (coat being possible for all branches but looking very naval) make it look like there was some time spent not as a pirate, after the initial youth period they hint at.
Diid you fully drape the shirt from scratch or did you use a base pattern? If so, can you throw up a pattern name? Even if you just used the base body portion or even just sleeves. I have been hoping to run across the old fashioned cracker jack shirt pattern but no luck
jenf0arc
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I drafted the collar from scratch but I used some other base patterns to save time on the rest of the garment. I wear a ladies small/2-4 dress so I used McCalls 7360 for the front and back, removing the back yoke; then for the sleeves I wanted them fuller so I used the sleeve pattern from McCalls 6819. Cuff as I mentioned before I used the pattern smithjohnj shared but modified for my wrist circumference. I'm sure there are other patterns that would work but I was just using what I had in my stash
If I was making this for someone of Jude Law's shape/build I would probably modify the shirt in Simplicity 4923, it seems to have a lot of details that would work for Jod's shirt like the neckline and the sleeve shape/volume
oh yes, my well loved 4923. I bought extras because I don't have room to store sturdier backup methods
kalsonprops
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jenf0arc
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Looks fantastic! If you plan to sell sets of the rubber cuffs, epaulets and shoulder patch I'd be interested!
The bottom toe section is holding its shape!!! That is cool. I am wondering if that is the reason for the original design having the seam, break the torque in the curve that usually leads to buckling and wave rolls.
Looks awesome, definitely waiting on finished pose.
Modery
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I'll take a catwalk video at some point
If you didn't intentionally boobytrap that sentence to get me singing the catwalk song I would be greatly surprised. I will need to strike my head against something pretty solid to get this song stopped.
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Wow, talk about memory lane, "I'm too sexy" used to be the only song that would come up when searching "catwalk song" but obviously people figured that out and named new songs catwalk.
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