An idiot’s guide to making cdrama period dress - the Wen Ke Xing edition.
Like many people, I was sucked into the cdrama Word of Honor and it has consumed more of my life than I’d like to admit. I’m always big into making character outfits under the pretense of a great Halloween costume, but really, I should come clean that I just like to do some cosplay/historical dress/fun outfits. Thank you pandemic lockdown and lack of traveling; I really got into historical dress youtubers and it shows in my new interest in natural fibers and vintage patterns.
My goal is the make a full replica of the following outfit from the show.
I chose this one for several reasons.
i.) this is one of the simpler outfits that WKX wears. The outer green jacket has a fairly straight cut in front and has unstructured shoulders.
ii.) the blue and red layers and both following a ‘long shirt’ pattern, and again are simple in structure.
iii.) the belt is also a large band with a red cord as the major accent.
iv.) color scheme; I personally prefer his blue/green/purple outfits and I like the pop of red he frequently wears as a part of layer 2, a reference to his role as the ghost valley master.
With this in mind, I did some research using ye olde interwebs. I tried to find resources, but they are rather limited in English. I can find tons of images for patterns in Chinese with an image search, but what I want is a step by step guide for how to sew it together and to know what parts can be modified and what parts have to be kept constant.
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