The dress is just about done. I ran out of pearl buttons and have to buy another pack later this week for the four buttons that go on the cuffs. Today I sewed on all the buttons, expect the ones on the bodice those I did last night. I did the trim on the skirt and across the bottom of the bodice. The trim on the front was fairly easy but takes forever. I can tell already I messed up a bit on the bottom but I can redo that later.
The bottom is hemmed nicely so all the lace shows. The trim on the bottom was super easy because I could remove the dress from the dress form and put it on the ironing board. I did it within ten minutes. The skirt is slightly longer in the front and short in the back. I did this because of the bow in the back. With the bow it appears it holds up the skirt, lifting it nicely.
The bow I added on in order to gather the extra fabric so it is more form fitting around my waist. Otherwise it looks like a nightgown. I guess I lost more weight than I was aware of. Awesome! I added a larger version of the pearl button that I have on front and sewed it onto the middle of the bow. It may not seem like much but it sure does look good. Gives you something to look at on the back. The bottom of the ribbon tails have lace, the same lace that is on the cuffs. I always add my own personal touches to my cosplays and adding the extra lace and bow is my own touch and it really brings it together.
The cuff and lace. The pearl buttons are so cute. I love how they add a girly-ness to it. The trim is the same I used for Abel's coat. Since we are mainly basing our costumes off the artbook version which I will post at the very end, the trim was a darker color so I skipped doing the blue as seen on the manga version of the dress. I love black and white. Simple and clean, plus with the pearls and lace it really looks quite mature and innocent.
The back of the dress has two strips of velcro that closes off the back. Originally the pattern had it opened with a drawstring on the top (As seen in the picture) and around the bottom of the bodice but my mom and talked it over and saw no reason to have the bottom drawstring (Now we know it would have made the waist thinner, oh well! I wound up cutting the seam too short anyway.) So I hand sewed the velcro in so it would show my undershirt and bra.
Overall I'm very pleased with the dress. It feel great while wearing it and I can't wait to see how it feels with the wig and contacts...all put together. It'll be great. We have a private photo shoot for these costumes so I should have a ton of great pictures to show you guys later on.
While I was working my bum off on the dress package after package came. We got four packages today. My fiance's Watanuki costume, Abel's boots and Abel's wig and glasses all arrived today. I was super excited about it all. I love tearing into a package. We still have the contacts, chains for the rosaries and my boots to come.
The wig is amazing! So soft and the color is perfect. Not white and not dark gray. Spot on. The wig we were going to buy was out of stock so I found this one and it works much better. Very glad with the site, I think we'll be buying from them again and again for our cosplay wig needs.
And the glasses! Oh gosh. We had a cow with these. So dorky. We love them. I put them on and warned my fiance that I will be stealing these from him during the con. They are too much fun! Perfectly awesome.
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