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12-12 hobbitlass costume final sml

For a hobbit costume, I dug in my he costume closet. I borrowed the blouse from my sister's gypsy outfit, one of her skirts, made a stomacher from skirt scraps, refashioned the dress that original started out as a recreation of Daniell's work gown fro Ever Afte by removing its last set of trim and pinning up the hem, and topped it all off with one of my first sewing projects: an apron. 

I should have taken pictures while making the hobbit feet. I had an old pair of sandals with only a single cross strap. I folded a bit of felt over that and shaped it to my feet before sewing on hanks of llama hair. Then I sewed the felt to the sandals. 

Should I have occasion to wear this again (next year, perhaps?) I will have to remember that the underskirt is meant for a smaller waist than mine, actually lace the dress shut instead of being lazy and pin the blouse so it doesn't ride up. 

More experiments with curls are needed as well. The rag curls were cute and held up well (they would be absolutely perfect should I ever do an Izumi Curtis costume wait, those aren't curls), but I keep envisioning ringlets...
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Two years ago I made Danielle's Work Dress from the movie Ever After.


I used jump rings as a method of attaching the upper (and lower) arm guards to the bodice. The first time I wore the dress the ties slipped out of the teeny-tiny holes in the rings. I've also lost a couple of the rings...





So last night I was browsing the internet and I found this dress diary. The entry for 1/3/03 gave me the idea of using ribbon instead. The laces will slide through the narrow bit between the stitching and be tied there, instead of going through a ring and being tied there.



The question is, does it work? I find that many things that sound wonderful in theory aren't so in practice... but it can't be worse than the jump rings. My mom saw me changing over, and wondered if there shouldn't be some sort of reinforcement underneath to take the stress of holding the guards up. Theory says that since I've been wearing them for two years with the laces tucked inside, and they almost stay where they're supposed to just a small bit of resistance will keep them in place and I won't have to go around tugging them back up every half-hour or so.

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