Wig- Nina (classic) and Curly clip (classic) from Arda in Aria Blonde, pearl barrettes purchased from Sally Beauty. 

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Head Wings- Just drew a paper pattern of the wings, cut the layers out of 2mm craft foam, hot glued together, then glued to a wooden dowel that sits in the clip of the curly clip. I added several layers of mod podge before painting with the same spray paint used on the armor. 

 

Dress- The dress is made out of a dark purple and lavender micro suede I found at Joanns. I began to pattern the dress by starting with a commercial pattern that had 8 panels in it. The dress was extremely full though, so I had to take in each panel quite a bit to get a shape closer to Sumia's dress. Once my mock up was completed, I drew the lavender swirly bits onto the mock up with pencil, and cut them off the mock up dress. This acted as my pattern for the dress. I began by sewing all the dark purple pieces first and finishing what I could, then I moved on to setting in the lavender pieces. This was much harder the I expected. The curve of Sumia's color blocking is very steep, so I wound up cutting notches into the curves before I sewed them, this helped me reduce as much puckering as possible, though there is still some. The pleat/panel on the inside of each lavender piece was really giving me a hard time, so I wound up messaging The Dangerous Ladies (who also created a Sumia cosplay that is extremely well documented) for some advice. Jenn wound up creating a walkthrough of the entire process and I just about died for how specific she was. Pictures, step-by-step instructions, the whole nine yards. It was exactly what I needed and thanks to their help, my pleats came out alright. The dress is hemmed with steam-a-seam because I wanted a 'seamless' hem and didn't have the time to add a blind hem by hand. 

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Armor- The most challenging part of the costume and by far my favorite! This was my first attempt at armor making, and I was originally planning to use Worbla for all of the armor. But, after some thought and my inexperience with the process, I decided to use craft foam instead to cut my teeth on the armor making process. I began by patterning everything out on paper, then testing my patterns with poster board before moving to foam. I used 6mm craft foam for the breastplate base, 3mm for the base of everything else, and then used 2mm to add small details like the wings on the outside of the elbow pieces and breastplate. I don't regret using this material at all since the end result was light weight and was relatively inexpensive. The belts used to hold all the armor in place are actually children's belts I bought off of amazon, painted with Angelus leather paint, and then cut up and attached to the armor using barge cement. I used a heat gun to mold all of the craft foam pieces into place and used  barge cement on places that needed a strong bond (like on structural seams), hot glue was also used to attached lighter weight details. Puffy paint was used to create the trim on the outside of some of the armor pieces, and googley eyes were used to create faux rivets in the armor. Once everything was shaped and glued, I sealed everything with one coat of mod podge. I wished I had used two or even three coats just make sure everything came out extra smooth and durable, but one was okay. Then I added 2-3 layers of plastidip, and finished with spray paint. The color I used was called "pink champagne" and its a metallic finish spray whose color I felt match Sumia beautifully! Not too pink, and not too silver! And even though the can says that it was a paint and primer in one, I regret not using a primer because I just wound up using more spray paint to cover the black of the plastidip. The gloves I purchased off of amazon and I just shaped and hot glued 2mm craft foam directly to the glove to make the armored gloves. The fin-like hand guards are held in place with velcro. 

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The collar and the breastplate are actually two separate pieces held together with velcro at the base of the neck. The entire breastplate is held on with a piece of scrap faux leather I had leftover from my Helba cosplay cut into a shape that The Dangerous Ladies deemed to be game accurate since there are really no finished reference pictures of the back of her costume (specifically where the armor fits). So, I patterend my piece by measuring my back width and the length from the base of my neck to my waist, then just holding it against the dress to see if it looked okay. Then, I cut it out of the pleather, painted it with the Angelus paint, added eyelets, and then added velcro to attach it to the base of the neck piece and at the sides of the breastplate. Red ribbon is used to lace the two halves of the back piece together. 

 

Belt- The belt itself is a mens belt I got off amazon. I removed the buckle, painted it pink with the Angelus paint, then added the purple stripe down the center. The novelty buckle and heart shaped ends caps were purchased from The Dangerous Ladies store envy, they do all kinds of small details for costumes and sell them as unfinished kits so that you can paint them yourself. It certainly saved me a lot of time and effort buying this kit! The finished belt is held in place with velcro. 

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Legs (Stockings, garter, and boot covers)- Garter was purchased off amazon, thigh highs were purchased from We Love Colors in the color light pink. And the boot covers are made of the same light and dark purple micro suede from Joanns. I began the pattern by measuring my leg around my thigh, then around my ankle, and finally the distance between the two. Then I just drew a line connecting the two points at the proper length and bam, I had a pattern. I wound up cutting this pattern in half so that my boot cover would have 4 seams instead of two, just to better recreate Sumia's boot covers. I interpreted her boot covers as having some kind of a spat-like end to them, so I added that into my pattern and they just velcro beneath the arch of my shoe. Once I had all the pieces sewn together (but not closed so that I could actually wear them yet) I added the lavender portion of her cover. I sewed the wrong side of the lavender to the right side of the dark purple so that when I fold the boot covers down, the right sides of the lavender are showing and they have finished edges. I only sewed the boot covers up to about the knee when closing them, so that the lavender cuff would be open. Everything is interfaced to make it more stable and to "stand up" against my leg. The leg belts are the same as the children's belts I used for the armor, just trimmed to fit around my thigh and not have a super long tail. 

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Shoes- Low black heels borrowed from my Mommy =)

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Flowers and Basket- Purchased at Michaels on a craaaaaazy discount. Purchased so that I would have some kind of prop since I couldn't get the spear done in time for the E.C. Shoot. Inspired by her ending of trading in her spear in favor of raising pegasai and telling people's fortunes with flower petals.