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Suu. Shugo Chara

Worn At - Midlands Expo 2010, Kitacon 2010
Difficulty - 2/5
Time Taken - 3 weeks
Cost - £60GBP
Costume Status -Active
Hardest Task - Fitting the dress together
Easiest Task - Shoes

Favourite Aspect - Skirt size, shoes, whisk

Least Favourite - My apron I guess

Why? - I started this costume because I loved Suu in Shugo Chara and I wanted to have a costume that was comfortable for the more casual days of conventions (you know, there’s always one day where everyone is still arriving that’s like, the ‘casual cosplay’ day). I also wanted it to be inexpensive because a lot of my costumes are insanely pricey. Due to my choices and material preferances. And my constant always buying way more than I actually need.

Construction Notes

So I started with poly cotton with this costume, and used shoes I already had that just needed a bow to be cut off the front. So its cost was pretty good.

So to start with I did a pattern hunt. I knew the best option I would have to make this cheaply would be to find a pattern which had pretty much everything I needed all in one book. Luckily, on my many jaunts through the books in Fabricland I remembered seeing a pattern in the McCall’s book of Dorothy’s dress from The Wizard of Oz. It had the ideal dress pattern, with perfect puff sleeves and it also had the pattern forn the pinafore.

Started the dress, using the basically dress pattern. I had to bring it in at the front with some extreme darts, and because of the way the dress is designed, the skirt section required a lot of gathering all the way around to give it the poof, and also th fit the whole skirt section into the top section. The result was actually pleasing - if a little complicated at first.

A similar thing was done for the pinefore/apron. A top section was cut, and then two skirt panels a back and a front. Both the back and front were gathered or pleated and then the whole thing was hemmed. Two equal lengths of lemon yellow poly cotton were added either side so the apron tied up behind me.

The large puff sleeves are probably one of my favourite elements of the outfit as a whole. They’re just so outrageously big! They were cut from the pattern, gathered at the top (where the shoulder is) to create the puff, sewn on and then hemmed. The dress was also hemmed, and because I suck and forgot the scalloped edging.

The wig is from professional only from eBay, and required the front bangs to be curled a little, and the fringe to be cut a bit shaggily and styled slightly. The back section, instead of cutting it away, I decided to just tie up the back of the wig and stuff it in the back of the hat. Which is made simply with a length of polycotton hemmed and turned right side out, and then a large circle of matching poly cotton, sewn in and gathered; again to achieve the puff effect.

The last part of the outfit as a whole is the clover amulet, which is green lycra cut and sewn in the shape of the clover and then stuffed. It’s attached to the hat with a broach pin. I decided on lycra because its not as shiny as satin, but still has a nice sheen to it.

My whisk is probably one of the easiest props ever. Its an actual whisk from a cookery shop sprayed pink. So very simple! It needs beads sewn to it to make it 100% accurate, but I'm happy with it. ^^

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Taken by Cowgirl Em

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