Construction Details:

This costume used linen for the coat and cape. The coat was lined with a thin cotton, because I don't like polyester linings (too hot!). I tailored a "Renaissance" coat pattern to fit me and match the style in the manga, and the cape pattern came from my Abel/Hazel costume work.




The cravat/tie was linen which I made my own pattern based on my dressage (horse showing) stock tie.




The shirt was muslin, also modified from a Renaissance style pattern.




For the belts, I dyed leather blanks from Tandy, secured them together with rivets and cut Wonderflex for the decorative tips.




For the boots, I made the instep pieces from two layers of pigskin glued together and dyed. I had to sew a dart through the 4 layers to give it a smooth curve across the boot top.




The boot tops were also made from pigskin. I used velcro to secure to the boot at the inside top edge, so I can use the boots for another cosplay, too.




The gloves were old riding gloves with pigskin gauntlet sections sewn on. I could not find a matching dye at first, but went back and re-worked the color later.




The sword and dagger needed lots of shaping and sanding. Lots of time with a heat gun and smoothing Friendly Plastic.




Both were hand sawed from 1/4" pine, and I hand beveled the edges to about 1/8" edge (convention safe). The guards and decorative hilt elements were a combination of wire work with Friendly Plastic shaped around it or MagicSculpt, and/or wood filler over basswood structures. The interlace design on the dagger hilt was wire I bent and hammered into shape. The oak leaf on the sword guard is Wonderflex.




The scabbards were basswood with 1/4" square dowels at the sides, and fun foam and Wonderflex built over that. Then Friendly Plastic and wood filler for the ends, with some wire work for attachments.

Styling Notes

The wig needed minimal styling, just some shortening of the bangs.

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