For Fanime 2016, my friends and I decided we wanted to be Splatoon characters. In the popular Nintendo exclusive third person shooter, most characters are themed after cephalopoda. There are two game show host type characters named Callie and Marie (get it? Calamari), and my friend and I decided to go as the sister squid duo.
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The Process
Making the dress
Marie's dress is pretty form fitting until the bottom, and it has slits in the outer layer showing the green lining underneath. I went to work to making the lining and to figure out how to add boning so that it is more form fitting.
Making the bow
After the dress, I set out to make the tentacle bow and hat. The tentacle bow was made with furniture upholstery foam and the tentacles made with the same type of stuffing used for stuffed animals. I used an airbrush to paint on the pattern on the bottom of the tentacles. The tentacles were sewn onto the bow, and the bow had hair clips sewn onto it to be affixed to the wig. The hat was made using a plastic ramen bowl with an adhesive green vinyl strip painted with acrylic paint. It was glued to a silver hair band that went into the wig.
Somehow I don't have pictures of my shoes, but I made covers that slip onto high-top sneakers and close with velcro on the bottom.