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VARIANT: Council of 13
Series: Venture Brothers
CONSTRUCTION TIME: A lot of time
DEBUT: Yuma Con (???)
Status: Retired // Thoughts on Reviving
Thoughts: Season 6 for Venture Bros had previewed at SDCC and I wanted to celebrate it. However, by the time I got to this costume I had hit a rough spot. I was not in the greatest of places mentally so it took me an entire year to complete this costume.
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I found a pattern I liked from Vogue and created a mock of the entire thing. I decided I wanted to have a false front and have the zipper in the back so I had to re-design it a bit to suit my needs. In my carelessness, I picked a non-stretchy fabric for the base of the costume. I later found this was not the best choice as the bottom does not do well once sitting.
So much time had passed that I had to take the dress in once I began the project again as I had lost weight. I added a bias to the front, cheap but decorative fake buttons to the front and created thigh high boot covers. I’m not 100% happy with them but I’m very pleased that the bottoms look pretty good to me. I had kept an old military-style hat from Party City for years. I had no idea if I would ever use it but I kept it because it was big enough to fit with a wig. Finally, I used extra bias tape for the red and found extra gold trimmings that I used to decorate the hat.
If I were to re-do it, I would use a different pattern, fabric and different bias tape for the front to make it more user-friendly and appear more militaristic.
So much time had passed that I had to take the dress in once I began the project again as I had lost weight. I added a bias to the front, cheap but decorative fake buttons to the front and created thigh high boot covers. I’m not 100% happy with them but I’m very pleased that the bottoms look pretty good to me. I had kept an old military-style hat from Party City for years. I had no idea if I would ever use it but I kept it because it was big enough to fit with a wig. Finally, I used extra bias tape for the red and found extra gold trimmings that I used to decorate the hat.
If I were to re-do it, I would use a different pattern, fabric and different bias tape for the front to make it more user-friendly and appear more militaristic.
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This was an easy project but I wanted to focus on correct fabric types that Miku would have worn in the videos environment.
This was an easy project but I wanted to focus on correct fabric types that Miku would have worn in the videos environment.
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I immediately ran to Goodwill since the con was only a week away. I didn’t think I would find anything that would work but surprisingly I did. I bought a ribbed baby blue tank, a large pair of pants, a pair of shorts that fit and an over-sized brown jacket that looked like it would match the statue. After a quick wash I destroyed the tank by cutting it on myself and then began to Frankenstein the pants and shorts together. Kind of dumb, right? The statue looks as if she’s wearing shorts and using pants as chaps so I wanted to have the same feel. I ripped both apart and just sloppily attached them together.
Next was the jacket. I originally started going at it with just a box cutter but damn did I get bored quick. I realized I could probably make the process faster with my dremel and it absolutely worked. I tore into the jacket then into the pants just to make the previous cuts I made look way better than they were..
When I got the mask in the mail I was disappointed. I knew I was going to get a halloween mask with shoddy painting but the other half of me said ‘well, maybe you’ll luck out’. Nope. I had to repaint the whole thing with spray paint since I didn’t have acrylics at the time. Not thinking it would work and short on time, I used the spray paint, dremeled the mask, replaced the original straps with faux leather and was incredibly surprised at how good the outcome was! The final thing was to just paint the machete since I didn’t want it to look bare so I used a maroon spray and dripped it on..
This time I was learning to be patient and mocking an entire cosplay versus just doing it in pieces.
With the jacket, I lined it with a light blue fabric, made a fake pocket for the front then worked on the jackets cuffs. This was one of the reasons the old jacket failed. The cuffs were awful and held no shape. This time, I used two pieces of interfacing for both cuffs and used an invisible stitch to attach the lower part of the jacket to the upper part of the cuff. Because of the invisible stitch, the cuff looks like it floats on its own and holds it’s shape perfectly!
I was again strapped for time. During the construction of Rain, I had moved apartments, gotten a new job and suddenly it was time for PCC. The only other thing left to do was make the collar and the pouch. I made the pouch using faux white leather and again alternated it so that the only thing it could honestly hold was my phone and business cards. I used a magnet to keep the pouch snapped closed at all times. Finally, I sloppily did the neck piece by creating it out of worbla. I have plans to re-do the piece since it’s pretty awful but overall, I’m incredibly happy with my remake of Rain!
Next was the jacket. I originally started going at it with just a box cutter but damn did I get bored quick. I realized I could probably make the process faster with my dremel and it absolutely worked. I tore into the jacket then into the pants just to make the previous cuts I made look way better than they were..
When I got the mask in the mail I was disappointed. I knew I was going to get a halloween mask with shoddy painting but the other half of me said ‘well, maybe you’ll luck out’. Nope. I had to repaint the whole thing with spray paint since I didn’t have acrylics at the time. Not thinking it would work and short on time, I used the spray paint, dremeled the mask, replaced the original straps with faux leather and was incredibly surprised at how good the outcome was! The final thing was to just paint the machete since I didn’t want it to look bare so I used a maroon spray and dripped it on..
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With the jacket, I lined it with a light blue fabric, made a fake pocket for the front then worked on the jackets cuffs. This was one of the reasons the old jacket failed. The cuffs were awful and held no shape. This time, I used two pieces of interfacing for both cuffs and used an invisible stitch to attach the lower part of the jacket to the upper part of the cuff. Because of the invisible stitch, the cuff looks like it floats on its own and holds it’s shape perfectly!
I was again strapped for time. During the construction of Rain, I had moved apartments, gotten a new job and suddenly it was time for PCC. The only other thing left to do was make the collar and the pouch. I made the pouch using faux white leather and again alternated it so that the only thing it could honestly hold was my phone and business cards. I used a magnet to keep the pouch snapped closed at all times. Finally, I sloppily did the neck piece by creating it out of worbla. I have plans to re-do the piece since it’s pretty awful but overall, I’m incredibly happy with my remake of Rain!