Suigintou has been on my to-do list quite some time. I knew I wanted to cosplay her as soon as I saw her. I loved her costume and I loved her personality. Unfortunately she had to wait her moment to shine for a loooong time. But now let's get to the process of making suigintou!
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| Did her costume according to the older design |
My fabric of choice was velvet. I wanted to make it from navy velvet, but unfortunately I wasn't able to find it, so I had to go with black. Still a bit salty about this. Patterns for the costume were easy to make, except for the sleeves. I struggled a lot with those, because I wanted to make them perfect. I changed the pattern multiple times during the process, and in the end I think I got the result I wanted. There are three different parts for the costume: top, bottom and underskirt. Also there is hoop skirt with tulle overlay and the wings can be taken off. The costume is fully lined.
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| All the materials. |
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| Patterns ready to be cut. |
Top. There is a zipper on the back of the costume. I really should have put the zipper on the side, so that I could have sew the wings on the costume and not have to do the lacing on the back every time I put on the costume. But at least now The long wig will hide the zipper completely. The decorative edge on the neckline of the costume is made with round satin ribbon. It took a lot of measuring to make it look nice.
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| prototype of the costume. |
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| I fought a lot with these sleeves, but in the end I won! |
Bottom. I wanted to have a dimension on the flappety flaps, so they each have 4 darts. To make the flappetyflaps stay nicely on their place there is wire on the lacing. Two of the flappety flaps had upside down crosses on them and I made them embroiding iridescent white thread instead of just painting them on. I think it adds nice touch to the costume.
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| flappety flaps and top in the making |
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| trying it on |
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| making the crosses |
underskirt. The underskirt was simple to make. It is a rectangle with gathered longer rectangle on the bottom. There is an elastic waistband.
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| Getting there... |
Accessories and shoes. The headdress is roundish shape with rose on the middle. There is also ribbon and the edges are made with round satin ribbon. It stays on with alligator clips.
I used the same shoes I had in the Iteza gogo kuji don't be late Sheryl. I added some decorations, that can be taken off, so I can use the same shoes for two costumes.
wings were made from wire, fabric and bunch of rooster feathers. I might redo the wings some day and make them bigger and change the shape a little.
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| Basic shape for the wings. |
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| Feathers added to both sides |
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| Trying those wings on. |
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| All the pieces done, now let's put it on |
And here's the finished results. This costume is so hard to photograph since it has black and white.
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