Costumes

This is basically a visual representation of what couture means. Every one of those heavily detailed/embroidered/beaded couture gowns you see during haute couture fashion week is made this way. In order to be considered couture they have to be, but that’s a separate post.

Oh man I just saw Be More Chill and I got blown away by this evil singing super computer

the cast was fABULOUS and I love the costumes for the SQUIP,,

ATTENTION COSPLAYERS:

I would like to make the paint brand “Angelus” known. It is a special paint that is for leather, faux leather, rubber, and similar surfaces.

This is literally the best paint you can buy if you love a pair of shoes, but they aren’t in the right color for your character.

This stuff coats VERY well AND the coats of paint bend with your shoes. This means no cracking!!

In the photos above I took black rain boots and painted them with Angelus Turquoise. As you can see, they don’t look black any more! It’s so good!

I managed to paint two boots with a little one ounce bottle of the paint, and I still have a third of the bottle left over!

The paint dries very fast, so you can put layer on top of layer on top of layer without it streaking.

You can get the paint on Amazon and it comes in every color!

1) Her hair is completely wrong for the 40’s. No professional/working woman  would have her hair loose like that. Since they’re trying to pass this off as a military hospital, Steve would know that she would at least have her hair carefully pulled back, if maybe not in the elaborate coiffures that would have been popular.

2) Her tie? Too wide, too long. That’s a man’s tie, not a woman’s. They did, however, get the knot correct as far as I can see - that looks like a Windsor.

3) That. Bra. There is so much clashing between that bra and what Steve would expect (remember, he worked with a bunch of women for a long time) that it has to be intentional. She’s wearing a foam cup, which would have been unheard of back then. It’s also an exceptionally old or ill-fitting bra - why else can you see the tops of the cups? No woman would have been caught dead with misbehaving lingerie like that back then, and the soft satin cups of 40’s lingerie made it nearly impossible anyway. Her breasts are also sitting at a much lower angle than would be acceptable in the 40’s.

There’s no knowing what kind of condition Steve’s in, or what kind of person he really is, after decades of nostalgia blur the reality and the long years in the ice (after a plane crash and a shitload of radiation) do their work. (Pre-crash Steve is in lots of files, I’m sure. Nick Fury does not trust files.) So Fury instructs his people to build a stage, and makes sure that the right people put up some of the wrong cues.

Maybe the real Steve’s a dick, or just an above-average jock; maybe he had a knack for hanging out with real talent. Maybe he hit his head too hard on the landing and he’s not gonna be Captain anymore. On the flipside, if he really is smart, then putting him in a standard, modern hospital room and telling him the truth is going to have him clamming up and refusing to believe a goddamn thing he hears for a really long time.

The real question here is, how long it does it take for the man, the myth, the legend to notice? What does he do about it? How long does he wait to get his bearings, confirm his suspicions, and gather information before attempting busting out?

I couldn’t help but notice the design of these trousers. 

MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER, PLEASE! 

I’m talking about the opening. 

NUH UH! STOP IT! I SAID STOP IT!

Anyway, being a bit of a history nut buff, I’ve looked as some real and replica garments from the Georgian era and I noticed that Loki is basically wearing Mr Darcy pants, also known as britches or breeches. 

Basically, before zippers and button up fly openings, trousers were a lot more elaborate and they fastened around the waist, then a flap buttoned up the front, like so. 

So, you know, if anyone’s wondering how to get Loki out of that get up, if you like history and historical garments, you’re welcome. 

Wow. I never knew there were so many history buffs in this fandom. 

So i haven’t done a tutorial in a while and thought i might as well do one for the Loki bracers i made to get back into practice:

if you’ve got any questions on anything feel free to drop me an ask.

Materials/tools:

-paper

-pens/pencils (i would recommend a permanent or whiteboard marker as thats the easiest to draw on worbla with)

-ruler and/or tape measure

-scissors

-craft foam

-worbla

-heat gun

-seed beads 

-wood glue

-gold paint (i used metallic spray paint)

-black acrylic paint

-paint brushes

-kitchen roll

Instructions:

1. Start by measuring from your elbow to your wrist and draw a line of this length on some paper. Then measure around the mid point of your arm, divide the measurement around your arm by two and draw a line of this length attached to one end of  the first line you drew at 90 degrees. Then draw in two more lines to form a rectangle. Then sketch in the design of the bracer within this rectangle, i made mine slightly shorter than my full arm measurement but kept the width the same. you only need to make one template because you can just mirror all of your pieces to make the opposite bracer.

2. Draw around your template on craft foam and cut it out. (you don’t need the rim around the edge i’ve only got it cos i made my original template too small) Then do exactly the same with the other side of the template to create the opposite bracer.

3. draw round each craft foam bracer twice onto worbla leaving a 0.5cm or larger rim around the edge and cut those out.

4. Sandwich your craft foam between your two piecer of worbla, heat the whole thing up with a heat gun and press the pieces together taking extra care to press together the pieces all around the edge. then if its still warm enough cut off the excess around the edge being careful not to expose the craft foam. (if its not warm enough just re-heat it then complete this step)

5. Heat up your bracer again and bend it over something to create the curved shape. i heated it over a drinks bottle, i would not recommend shaping it actually on your arm because odds are you will burn yourself.

6. cut out the individual sections from your original template, then cut them out of worbla (make sure the three overlapping sections that are put on first have a slight lip on them for overlapping)

7. lay the pieces on one at a time, heat them up, and stick them down in the order that follows:

8. to create the texture on the ends of the bracers i first marked out the pattern, then i heated up the section a bit at a time and poked the end of a paintbrush into the worbla to create dimples. 

9. later up more of the sections as i step 7.

10. to create the ball details i covered seed beads in tiny pieces of worbla then poked holes in the worlba using the same method as step 8. then while the worbla was still warm inserted the balls into the worbla.

11. cover the whole thing in several layers of wood glue using an old paintbrush (i think i used 4 coats of glue), and wait for it to dry completely between coats or you will just make a mess.

12. spray paint the whole bracer gold (its just the lighting making this look bronze)

13. wait for that to dry properly then cover a section in black acrylic paint, wait for about 15 seconds, then wipe it off with some kitchen roll, leaving a bit of residue anywhere the bracer would collect dirt.

14. when this is dry cover with a couple more layers of wood glue and you’re finished!

when i make the actual costume i will be attaching these by gluing velcro to the back and having a corresponding piece of velcro sewn to the jacket sleeve.

Good Luck!