Starfire – Teen Titans

Made for: San Diego Comic Con 2005

Background: My first DC costume!

Journal Entries: Read more at my Starfire tag

Patterns Used: KwikSew 3239

Top & Skirt: Found my purple spandex locally, and used a KwikSew swimming suit pattern for the top, and also for the matching shorts I’m wearing underneath the skirt. The skirt was just a tube of fabric with elastic in the waist. I added a strip of my silver stretch vinyl around the bottom hem of the top.

Armor Pieces: I found some silver stretch vinyl, and used that to make the collar, armband, gauntlets and belt. For the gauntlets, I made a pattern, then cut out a heavy piece of vinyl and covered that in the lighter-weight silver vinyl. They snap closed. The armband was made the same way, only it velcros. The collar I also made a pattern for, I made it out of the silver vinyl. The collar snaps up the back. I used a plastic tube, covered in my purple spandex, as the trim of the bottom of the collar. For all the little jewels, I first used some wooden pieces painted – later I replaced them christmas ornaments set on wooden bases.

Boots: For the boots, I bought a pair of boots online that had a similar sole. I cut them off from the ankle up, repainted the soles lavender, and then covered the shoe in the spandex, and made a tube of fabric for the upper section of the boots and glued it to the base shoe. (Here’s a short tutorial I did on a similar pair.) I made silver vinyl toppers for those, too.

Accessories: I used Ben Nye makeup to paint myself orange, and bought the wig online and cut it.

History: I still have yet to remake my collar… maybe one day. It’s also a pain in the butt to paint myself orange (Here’s my blog post about what make-up I use.)

                       

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