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I'm trying to make a Sephiroth costume. Its my first time making one. But I don't know what to do for the shoulder armor. I know I'm never going to find a really long silver wig but I can do something for the hair. The sword I can try to make too. But I don't know for the armor

@ Crusnik: If you are willing to make them yourself, I suggest checking this site out: http://amethyst-angel.com/armormaking_construction.html.

She has made an extremely good guide for armor making and it uses pauldrons (the shoulder thingies) as an example near. You'll have to make your own design for them, but that should be the hardest part.


@ Nyx: This one is easier to suggest biggrin As with most characters in Bleach, the costumes are modified japanese outfits, the pants being the easiest part to do biggrin

If you already know sewing its not that hard to merely find a pattern (either online or at a store) for Hakama (the name of the type of pants) and make them. I'm sure someone has posted printable patterns, so all it takes is a little exploration.

@Nyx: I would say get the material-- I don't think you're going to find a sheet that's thick enough to serve as proper pants like theirs. Plus if your top is a different fabric than your pants, it might be noticable enough that they are different materials which has always been a small annoyance for myself, so I tend to make matching pieces of the outfit out of the same material x:

I'm making a Creed Diskenth cosplay from Black Cat and I need his trenchcoat thing... It's the white one with black. Should I just get a white coat and sew black fabric on?
And where in the worlds could I find a good leopard-print shirt?

I want to Make Blue tunic Link from Ocrina of time but I need help with the Tunic and the guntlets and Gloves

@Dragonelf13
Reference pictures would be very helpful.
As for the leopard print shirt, if your in a hurry then you'd be better off making it, but if you still have time then search ebay, goodwill, any thrift stores. They are great places for random stuff but also it's hard to go in the 1st time and find something that is exactly what you want.

@Phyre Nyx
I actually tried and fail at hakama and then I bought some. You can try looking at cosplay.com if you haven't already, that may have some thing that could help you.

@CheshireCatCloud
What type of help?

@Roswitha
For binding you could do a couple of things. Extending the binding up is fine but you have a few more options, you could use flesh color ace bandages to bind with or wear a flesh colored shirt, the one I've heard a lot of Simon crossplayers use is open shirt binding (which normal uses sports tape) a good link for this is http://www.cosplay.com/showthread.php?t=15709.

For patterns look at simplicity, butterick, McCall's and anything at your local fabric store. The jacket looks like it could be made from a normal sports jacket pattern you'll probably need interfacing in the collar so it can stand on it's own (if you do make sure is fusible/iron on , it will make your life easier).

No! You helped out alot, Thanks! I can't wait to get started