The only costumes I will talk about here are Jedi and Sith.
I will give instructions on how to make a couple of costumes including simple
sewing patterns, techniques and tips.
These are costumes styled after the ones seen in Star Wars, they are simple
non "professional", NON OFFICIAL costumes, if you do not think that
you can sew them yourself, I can sew them for you, for a small fee to cover
my time, the materials and postage, I believe This will be cheaper than some
of the places Costumes are available from now. (Baring in mind that the stitching
will be the same simple double stitched seam shown here).
I will also soon be working on finding good places to buy boots, and techniques
for making "your own"
I don't make belts right now, but I will be working on instructions to soon.
I know someone who does and you may be able to buy them from here in the future.
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Start by making your template. Making a template
on paper is a lot better than trying to go right to the cloth. You can get
a large roll of parcel wrapping paper reasonably cheap almost anywhere you
live. This is a lot cheaper than other alternatives. |
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Take some measurements and note them down clearly somewhere you won't
lose them.
You will want to measure from shoulder to shoulder (B), the edge of your
shoulder to your neck (F), and the other way to the center of your palm
(G). From the top of your shoulder to the point on your thigh where you
want the inner robe to stop (A), and if you are making an outer robe,
from your shoulder to the point near your feet where you want it to stop.
Also measure your waist (D), around your arm at the shoulder (E) and
around your fist (H). The other measurement can be "made up"
depending on your preference. It is the "wrist" at the end of
the outer robes.
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When doing each progressive layer, try adding
an inche to your measurements (where apropriate) this will give you room
to move, try wearing two things that are the exact same size and see what
I mean. example: if the layer closest to skin is 18 inches around the arm
atthe shoulder, the 2nd layer up should be about 19. |
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| Taking your measurements you need
to mark out your pattern. I'd start out maybe with the back, that way you
can use that to guide you for both of the front parts and the sleeves.
Take your shoulder measurements and measure out something that width.
Then take the measurements from the top of your shoulders to the bottom
of the robe (Inner robe for this example) and measure down to basically
give you a large rectangle.
Now there are two ways you can go now, you can either keep all the lines
straight or try and curve them a little which should make for a slightly
better fit and look. But it is up to you.
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If you are keeping it straight measure down from the left and right top
corners HALF of the measurement around your arm at the shoulder (E). Then
you will want to mark in about an inch to two inches. From that mark draw
a line straight down to the bottom edge of the rectangle. (See Figure
1)
If you want to try and curve it more: Measure down from the top two corners
of the rectangle about 2 inches, Now measure back towards the top center
the length of you shoulders to your neck. Draw a line, there should be
a space between for you neck. From the bottom of these lines you just
drew measure down, half of the measurement around your arm at the shoulder.
Arc a line back up about a quarter of the way and in about an inch. Connect
the line up with a very slightly curved line. Measure an inch in and an
inch down from the bottom mark. From there draw a line down to the bottom
corners.
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Ok the instructions for the curved shape are
a little confusing even to me, I will work on a better one and probably
an A4 (business) size pattern you can print out for the shoulder / inner
arm part. This pattern will also include the curve for the connecting part
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| This is your back piece basically
finished, if you are happy with it then cut it out. Now you can use this
as a guide to quickly draw the front halves.
Lay the template on top of the paper again. Draw around the template
from the edge of the neck, to the shoulder, around the armhole, down the
side and across the bottom to the opposite corner. You can then take away
the template and draw a line connecting the bottom opposite corner to
the neck. This will be the template for both of the front panels of the
robe.
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This is just for the inner, inner robe. For the second layer I would
make another slightly bigger template, adding an inch to all of the measurements
so that they have room to fit over the first layer. The only difference
is so that the out robe lays slightly differently to the first is, in
stead of the bottom line coming all the way across, it should only come
about Two Thirds or three quarters of the way across. See outer robe picture.
So you have four templates now for cutting material. Hopefully you know
that the templates are good, you can try looking at your self in a mirror
with them on, or try cutting it out of some junk fabric to see what it
looks like.
On to: SEWING INSTRUCTIONS
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Come back soon for updates and please e-mail suggestions of things
you might want to know or see!
