This picture is really the best because you can clearly see all of my accessories and the camisole (and yes, I’m drinking coffee through a straw — must protect the lipstick!). No idea why my makeup contouring looks so pronounced in that photo . . . it wasn’t like that in any of the other photos, but whatever. That’s stage makeup for you! Anyhow, I was pretty proud of the accessories:
- Double rope necklaces like the ropes around the game board
- Earrings that were the game controllers (I 3D modeled and printed those myself, you can see more of them in the 3D printing post coming up shortly)
- Yellow shoes like the base of the game (not shown, obviously)
- Hair to look like the robot’s boxy heads (and also, I wanted big hair to balance out the big shoulders)
Here’s another look at the hair. It was based off of this video by Dafne Bar-el. And a HUGE shout out goes to my friend Jillian (yes, the same one who helped me with my Minnie Mouse hair last year) in getting it looking this awesome. She’s such a good sport when I throw out wacky hair ideas. Even hair ideas like this one that take over 50 bobby pins to hold in place!
I got several comments that I was giving Rachael from Blade Runner vibes and I can totally see that now. Maybe I was subconsciously channeling that since she’s an android/robot (sorry, spoiler), it’s an 80’s movies and she totally rocks the power suits. Either way, not mad because it’s a cool look, too. And also, solid name.
The other piece in this post is the camisole. I’m not especially proud of the quality of the construction on this camisole, but I am proud of the method and how optimal it was. I got it done fast (~2 hrs total including cutting and sewing) and it looked more than good enough (really only the center front had to be decent).
I knew I didn’t want to spend much time on this and I was pretty pressed for time at this point. I had previously drafted a dartless boatneck blouse pattern from my moulage and made it so I knew it fit well. So I started with that. I cut out the front and back. Then I cut out bust length versions of those for the facings. Then I laid the front facing and front on top of each other, folded in half at center and freehand cut with my rotary cutter the neckline lower. Very quick and dirty here.
Next I finished off the edges of the facings with a super quick hem. I sewed the neckline all around and understitched it all around. Then I used the burrito method to do each of the armholes. I only had to pick out stitches and redo one side (whoops). And then I understitched as far as I could on those. If I were to do it again, I would make the facing a little thinner at the shoulder than the outer part. But I was going on instinct for this guy and did not have time to turn back once things were sewn.
Finally I stitched up the sides and hemmed the bottom. As you can see from the photo above, this is not my best work. I definitely melted the satin in places using too hot an iron. I had at least one run. And you can see it’s fraying at the seams a bit as I didn’t have time to serge or otherwise finish the side seams so just the wearing one days started to make it fray. I knew none of this would be visible the vast majority of the time, I was running out of time and, as I reminded myself many times, I was not the one competing, so I didn’t worry about it. Needless to say, if I had been competing this would have been a very different beast. But this camisole was definitely following the 90/10 rule. That being said, it would be a cute cami and I may make myself another one, but with the nicer satin 🙂
