Shoes

Ugh, the dreaded shoes. Obviously you need shoes for a cosplay. It's against the rules otherwise. Normally I find shoes pretty easily by using Walmart and Amazon. Both sites have good prices and normally fairly cheap shipping (Walmart has free to store shipping.) But finding shoes for Seth has been challenging. Of course finding her green fabric had been too. I like a good challenge but I want to cut some corners with shoes this time around so I can focus more on the outfits.

The shoes shown with the outfit I'm making are knee high white boots with gold details. My first idea was to make boot covers since white boots are ridiculously high priced and often look like cheap Halloween go-go boots.

But stretch fabric is so much money! $10.99 for fabric? No thank you. The over all price if bought everything at my local store would turn out to be around $45.39.

There is also the risk of the boot covers not working out. Or not enough time to finish them. So it's a risk. I've never made boot covers before. They seem both time consuming and tricky.





So I started looking at other pictures of Seth to see what other footwear I could make. And I found a few choices that would be both fun to make and would be very comfortable to wear throughout the con. And decided that Ballerina shoes would be the cheapest way to go. Luckily for me, Seth wears them.

Since the outfit so similar to the one I'm making it couldn't be better. The ballerina type shoes have straps that reach the ankle. I'm glad for this because I find it hard to keep the ribbon up when it go higher. My rocking horse shoes for example go to my ankle and are both comfortable and stay up.

My plan is not only cheaper (It's about $30 not including lace.) but wearing shoes without heels is going to be so much more comfortable. So I'm very excited to go all out with these shoes.

My plan is to dye a pair of ballerina shoes (They are pink.). I want to try and dye them an apple green but if it doesn't work out I'll make them dark like the trim that will go on the train. Then either us ribbon (And dye those.) for the straps. Or make my own ribbon out of the white satin fabric I have and dye that, then sew elastic on the back of the fabric strips. Then add lace to spice up the shoes and make them look more like an Empress would wear.

Close up of the shoes. There is some sort of lace detail on the rim of the shoe and on the straps. Hopefully I can figure out what I'm going to do lace wise. Maybe I'll get a 50% off coupon to use on it.

Here is another outfit in which Seth wears a ballerina type shoe. These are a darker green with no lace detailing. When I think of Seth I think of lace. So I will be adding some. Again the length of the ribbon stops below the knee.

I'll be using these are my reference pictures for the contest. I'm very excited to start making the shoes as I've always wanted a pair of ballerina shoes.

I'll post pictures when I start working on them. We won't be buying the materials until later on.

Thanks for reading!