In this part, I'm going to talk about how to make the costume of the character you want COS from scratch. COSER has high requirements on clothes. Based on this, self-made clothes have an advantage in price (COSER in China is generally poor in powder). Comparing the price difference of customized clothes, we must first choose the appropriate fabric.
1. Material selection
In this session, I recommend COSER to try to do it in the fabric wholesale market in your city. Of course, the bigger the better. After all, "shopping around" is not empty talk!
2. After choosing the person who wants COS, it is best to decompose his clothing, including color and material. After recording, according to the specific height of COSER, make an estimate and get the required length of cloth. Pay attention to the color of the clothes here, and it is best to print or attract items with similar colors, so as to facilitate the selection of the color of the cloth. You can consider using color swatches if possible, because the color difference of clothes is a very easy problem when choosing cloth, especially pay attention to blue and green.
When everything is ready, you can start choosing cloth. For the pursuit of stage effect, people often choose silk or artificial bright materials, but when choosing such materials, we should consider the convenience of cutting and the drape or support of clothes. When choosing materials such as cloth and hemp, we should pay attention to some color fading problems, because this is the same as the color difference mentioned above. When choosing artificial fur or leather, it is necessary to know the characteristics of its materials. The length, softness and appearance of fur should be selected, that is, straight and curly, while leather should consider its texture, texture, smoothness or roughness. In addition, the problem that needs attention here is that most clothing fabrics will shrink, so please be sure to ask the width of the fabric when buying and consciously put a little size in it. In addition, it is not recommended to sew with materials that look the same on the surface but can't stand scrutiny.
When all the preliminary work is completed, it is time to enter the most important stage of clothing production. Before cutting the material, there is another important thing to do, that is, draw an exploded view of the clothing according to the measured and calculated dimensions (including shrinkage). After that, you can draw a line on the plain cloth with plaster or chalk according to the previous drawing, and then you can cut it along the line. Pay attention to the treatment of clothing corners when cutting, because it is easy to make mistakes here. In addition, be careful when cutting straight lines. After the cloth is cut, it can be sewn. Sewing clothes is usually done manually or mechanically (home sewing machines are made here). The former is often used in some smaller aspects, such as hats, necklines, cuffs and so on. And the latter is mostly used for wrapping, smashing lines and other work. Here, we should pay attention to the different stitches in different parts when sewing by hand.
5. Final repair. It's not important here, but let COSER soak the finished clothes once or twice and try them on, and then modify them according to the inappropriate places and improve them according to the shortcomings.
Second, reorganization.
In this part, we mainly introduce some feasible and detailed modifications and adjustments we can make to the clothes after we get the clothes in the professional COSPLAY clothing store and the initial completion of the self-made clothes.
When you get ready-made clothes to try on, you can consider modifying the following points.
1. Neck and cuffs
Because different clothes have different requirements for neckline and cuffs. For example, Sasuke's neckline, Xiaoji's skirt cuffs and so on. In the adjustable range of clothing, it is suggested to relax the size. When you need the effect of collar standing up, you can use paper to create the effect in addition to sewing. Here, a young man suggested using cardboard of the same material as the shirt he bought. In view of the difference between the color of clothes and the color of cardboard, it is not recommended to use bonding and sewing methods when making the effect. If possible, you can sew an openable double-sided neckline by using the leftover material left during sewing clothes, which is convenient for inserting and taking out cardboard.
2. About the hollow part of the uniform
I'm talking about Inuyasha, Platycodon grandiflorum and other ancient Japanese shrine costumes. You can clearly know the hollow part of the shoulder. When people sew this kind of clothing, they will sew the hollow part with white cloth, but in fact, the effect of the clothing will be greatly reduced. Another method is recommended here: sewing a large area of white cloth around the hollow part. On the surface, it is both hollow and can ensure the overall harmony of clothing. If this method is too complicated, you can sew one or two transparent glass filaments on the hollowed-out part. This method is simple, but pay attention to the length of glass fiber.
put on
Long skirts and skirts are suitable here. Because customized skirts will increase in price if they need interlining, most COSER will choose to add their own interlining, which can be divided into two aspects:
1.) If the skirt has a good drape, you can choose a thinner and better drape lining.
2.) If the skirt needs heightening, you can choose multilayer, thicker and harder yarn lining for sewing.
Of course, there are still many skills and tricks in COSPLAY clothing making. This depends on the vast number of COSERS in the future COS to mobilize subjective initiative to find!
Sequin cloth
There are some special fabrics, such as sequined cloth. Need a stage. Not the same as COS!
The above is the introduction of cloth knowledge. Let's begin to explain the production process.
Others are like lace, lace, decals, tassels, beads and so on. There are ready-made ones on the Internet. Just buy it and sew it!
Everyone knows very well that "clothes make the man, and horses depend on the saddle." The truth of this sentence, so I won't say much about the importance of clothing to a COS and COSER, but focus on the self-control and reorganization of COSER clothing.