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eisoj5 · 1 year

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I haven’t posted a whole lot here about this project, but I finally wore it to Celebration on Saturday and have various pictures so it’s time!!

Leia’s Bespin dress has always been my favorite, probably because the colors are in line with a palette I like. I decided a while back that I wanted to make a hanfu version of it, inspired by cationdesigns’ hanfu Ariel. The costume seemed like it would translate especially well to Song dynasty hanfu because it’s relatively simple: tunic, pants, and cape, which I (currently) have done as moxiong (tank top), pants, and layered beizi (jackets). I also wanted to lean into the Chinese cloud design because Cloud City :D

Wanting to do Bespin Leia meant deciding if I wanted to try all the embroidery, which is why I worked on other random projects last summer to see if I really could dig in and learn how. I started actually embroidering my Spoonflower printed fabric for the costume in October 2022, and finished the fourth panel of motifs by the first week of March 2023. (There were some delays due to to other projects, haha.) In February or so I worked on drafting and tweaking the patterns for the beizi and moxiong from a hanfu pattern making book available on Amazon, so that in March I could hopefully knock everything out in a couple of weekends and be done in time for SWCE.

Figuring out what to do about the embroidered fabric was the hardest part. I talked to Ronnie at length about it as well as cosplay friends, and ultimately went with what you see here. I wound up taking the entire piece of fabric and my pattern pieces to the library so that I could trace directly onto it and decide placement. Actually cutting into embroidery that I’d worked on for months was surprisingly not as stressful as I anticipated, largely because I’d spent so long tracing the pattern on that I just had to trust myself that I’d done it correctly and just get the rotary cutter out.

A few more notes about the make:

patterns: self-drafted everything except for the pants, which are Winslow Culottes from Helen’s Closet

white embroidered fabric is from general_leah on Spoonflower

red chiffon (with auspicious cloud print) beizi underlayer, earrings, pendant, hair stick, and trim for belt are all from Etsy

red silk noil for moxiong and pants is from Fancy Tiger Crafts

red chiffon pibo scarf is a table runner from Amazon XD

purse is from New Moon Dance

shoes were from the thrift store with my insoles stuck in them so I could survive a con in flats -- which actually WORKED! (I also wore socks.)

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nerdyhans · 1 year

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