My Rorschach costume for the movie :)... Post yours!

Left epaulet sticks up in the film, indeed.

I was considering getting my coat dyed and shortened, but I'm not sure how much it would cost. Still wondering about that.

Anyone found a good source for Rorschach-like fedoras? I'm getting mighty sick of my cheap, black hat, haha.
 
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Chiok said:
Something that always bothered me about Rorschach's coat was that the left epaulet was always sticking up at that funny angle. I think everyone else has theirs neatly pinned down.
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It was sticking up in the book... it's just one of those little details so that he's not just a guy in a trenchcoat, and helps to sell the fact that the guy is little more than a vigilante hobo in the larger scheme of things.
 
My costume is almost complete, one of the last things I need to do is get my coat the proper (movie version) colour. I can't find a single clothes dyeing service in my city, what should I do? I've heard of the method of simply throwing the piece of clothing in the washing machine with the dye, but I get the feeling that could produce varying results.
 
Kadajiroth said:
My costume is almost complete, one of the last things I need to do is get my coat the proper (movie version) colour. I can't find a single clothes dyeing service in my city, what should I do? I've heard of the method of simply throwing the piece of clothing in the washing machine with the dye, but I get the feeling that could produce varying results.
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Depends on what the fabric being dyed is. If it's cotton or a high percentage cotton mix, it'll be fine. If it's mostly synthetic such as polyester the dye won't take. My own trenchoat was a cotton/polyester mix but with a higher cotton percentage. It dyed really well with a washing machine dye. Luckly enough the coat also had a rubber backing (showerproofing) to it, so I was able to apply a few coats of Barbour wax proofing to it to give it the movie look.
 
The tag on my coat says it's 65% polyester, gorram it. It's such a nice coat, I was hoping to give it the nice movie colour.
 
what is the best dye to use on a cotton trench coat?
to get that movie Rorschach look.
 
I thought I'd post my costume the way it is now, it's the best I can get it. I recently received my awesome thermochromic mask from Kwally89, so all I need do now is add a purple ribbon to the hat. Not sure how I'll do it, but I'll try (the hat is brown, but it looks green in the photo for some odd reason).

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The ribbon isn't purple. It's brown but with the modern ribbons they have a higher rayon content that makes it shine and give off that tint that you see.
 
bendingoak said:
The ribbon isn't purple. It's brown but with the modern ribbons they have a higher rayon content that makes it shine and give off that tint that you see.
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Oh, fantastic. Thanks for the information. So should I look for a brown ribbon? How should it be fitted, should I just find a local place that would do it for me, or shouldn't it be too difficult?
 
Depends if you want the ribbon to be SA bow or not. I try and copy the bow work that they did on the movie but I clean up what they did. It was put on kinda sloppy.
 
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