Heya !
Welcome on this new post about my Miku With You costume ! At this moment, we're three weeks away from the Miku Expo so the rush begins. At this point, I already knew that I wouldn't have the big bow in the back with the two train and it wasn't a big deal for me. They won't be dirty !
In parallel, I decided to take a new step in the cosplay game : I decided to present this costume for the french championship qualification ! So my final deadline was on the 1st of february at 6pm ! At this time, we were around the 22 december. So I had one month to finish it (a little more).
Some days later, I recieved my Christmas gift with some more things to continue the costume. I received my pointe shoes, a black petticoat (in reality 2 as I wasn't sure about the puffiness of the petitcoat) and that's all. I then went shopping for this costume : I needed the flowers on her head and leg. I found a pot of pivoine, the flower she has on her head, and some decoration for flower pot.
Let's talk first about the pot decoration. First, let's see a photo.
The decorations
I decided once I saw them that it would be incredibly cool to have feathers on the bust instead of this piece of fabric a little weird. So I cut the long metallic stick and sewed them when I returned back from my vacation on my bust.
Feathers cut and sewed on
This thing I learned quickly is that it didn't want to stay on the dress so finally I had to glue it on the dress x) (oh and I forgot to tell that I hid the base of the decoration with a single feather glued on).
Then, on the pointe shoes ! I didn't want to wear them at Miku Expo as it's not cheap so I just prepared them for the FIBD. I bought some small rubber band and sewed it by hand to keep the end of the shoe on my heel. It was hard, I hurt myself a lot by sewing this as the shoe is very thick. But I was happy and those shoes definitely add something to the hole costume in my eyes ! Of course I tried to be on pointe and I discovered how much it hurts but I won't replicate it unless I'm on a shoot with something to hold me. For my prestation I also discovered that I would need to learn how to walk with these as the front part is very hard (you can't be on your toes with those shoes).
Sewing on ballerina shoes
When I returned at Angoulême, I decided to start the headband. My first step to do was creating the base. So I reused some leftover from the top and sewed a tube before getting the right side on the outside so that everything will be neat. I closed the other edge by hand and add two pression on it.
Steps for the headband
Before that, I got onto the collar. I took some black ribbon, some pink and blue ribbon. The black and the blue had the same length and width, the pink was very small (3mm if I remember right). I started by making a black collar closed by a pression button. Then, I took some interfacing, glued it on some black ribbon and hid everything with some blue ribbon (so the interfacing is taken in sandwich). I had to redo the ribbon later as it was ridiculously small. Oh and I sew by hand the pink ribbon on both the ribbon and the necklace.
Steps for the necklace
At this point, the costume was like that.
The costume on 12th of january, 4 days before Miku Expo
And I'll leave you here for today. I still have one or two post left for this costume (depending on how much I have to descirbe). The saddest part is that as I've rushed it, I don't have a lot of pictures of the process of the train :( I'll have to add them later as I have to unsew almost everything in order to burn the edges of the satin.
See you soon ! :)
Oh wow, this is amazing! But I first was afraid you will never be able to show it because of the lockdown, but then understood that you already went to the cosplay and that the date was before the Corona outbreak in Europe...
You did really well and I am amazed how much work you put into the dress and I am looking forward to the final outfit. By the way, if you ever use the point shoes again and in case you did not know, (but you already googled this perhaps or know this yourself from ballet lessons) you can use toe pads to safe your toes a bit of stress, it is still hurting, but a lot less than dancing or in your case standing/walking without the pads.
Thanks !
Yes, I'm really slow at posting my WIP ! (those are from late december / early january ^^). In fact when thinking of it, I was lucky to not get my events cancelled by the corona ^^
Yes, I really wanted it to be perfect so I put a lot of effort on it ! I think they gave me those (I got fabric pads and silicon pads) but yes, the point shoes are mostly only for photoshoot and skit (I think it really add something to the costume !).
The fun fact is that during the time I was making this costume, an incredible cosplayer that I follow got it and took stunning photos with point shoes (link to some pictures and her instagram : 1, 2, instagram) !