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Cleves Blue 1 by ~glittersweet

I’m surprised this got even one note ;) Seriously, I’m flattered as this is a style that doesn’t really fit in with the modern aesthetic :) It’s accurate, right down to pinned on sleeves (okay that is my conjecture based on woodcuts of the time as well as written documents of the time) and silly cloak hanging from the head.
The cloak is a heuke and it is about 2kg, maybe three (more than five pounds) and is carefully held in place using mainly a little engineering trickery:
Hair is plaited and pinned (bobby pins) around the crown.
A fitted cap (guldhaube) is pinned (sewing pins) to the hair in front and behind the plaits with florists pins.
A shaped cap (sticklechen) is pinned over the cap and pinned also just in front of the plaits. There is a velvet lappet pinned around the front on the underside which adds tension to hold it balanced at the back of the head.
Then the heuke collar is pinned to the fitted cap (guldhaube) and the fabric hangs over the back.

My original stickelchen had pearls and goldtone bezants all over it but the sequins were ruined by a house fire and I have never managed to redo the base frame to fit. The base is buckram and felt steamed to shape.

Cleves Blue 1 by ~glittersweet

I’m surprised this got even one note ;) Seriously, I’m flattered as this is a style that doesn’t really fit in with the modern aesthetic :) It’s accurate, right down to pinned on sleeves (okay that is my conjecture based on woodcuts of the time as well as written documents of the time) and silly cloak hanging from the head.

The cloak is a heuke and it is about 2kg, maybe three (more than five pounds) and is carefully held in place using mainly a little engineering trickery:

Hair is plaited and pinned (bobby pins) around the crown.

A fitted cap (guldhaube) is pinned (sewing pins) to the hair in front and behind the plaits with florists pins.

A shaped cap (sticklechen) is pinned over the cap and pinned also just in front of the plaits. There is a velvet lappet pinned around the front on the underside which adds tension to hold it balanced at the back of the head.

Then the heuke collar is pinned to the fitted cap (guldhaube) and the fabric hangs over the back.

My original stickelchen had pearls and goldtone bezants all over it but the sequins were ruined by a house fire and I have never managed to redo the base frame to fit. The base is buckram and felt steamed to shape.

05.28.12 ♥ 6

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Shae Vizla watching by ~glittersweet

Apparently I started watching this tumblr without spotting this ;) Again any thanks to Catherine for the photo :) Once again I bullied a photographer to lie on the ground for dramatic effect ;) I did this with my Catwoman costume to Ana a few years ago :)

Just vanity googling, move along. Just cheking to see if my site is still relevant and debating trying to get wordpress installed again.

05.28.12 ♥ 9

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galactic-basic:

Fan Girl Friday arrives thanks too Glittersweet and her amazing Shae Vizla Costume, featuring almost 100% original parts, hand crafted expertly by herself, excellent work!

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check out more of glittersweet’s work on her personal website and her Deviantart

Oh hey, that’s me :) And I have to say the butt shot was a total joke between myself and the photographer- I don’t really do gratuitous shots but I am an incorrigible butt dancer and had been doing one and well… it was a convention and I was hopped on sugar.

Many thanks to Catherine Scholtz (photos 1 and 3), Ange (butt shot) and Sylvie (photos 2 and 5) for the artistry behind the lense :)

Most is scratch built (direct modeled in fibreglass or sculpted molded and cast) some is from found parts destroyed and reassembled. The only pieces not made in this way were the wig (custom dyed) and boots (it depends on how well I can walk as to what footwear I use :) ). Yeah, forgot to mention I’ve got a degenerative disease that affects my joints and soft tissue (and on ocasion internal organs) so it’s just that little bit hard to actually make stuff. But it’s my bliss, my addiction of choice :)

Currently upgrading the costume to be crisper in detail. And light up :) Slowly saving for Celebration 6 and Dragon Con incidentals as well as the last of the resin and paints and electronics so I can take this costume with me :)

Oh and to see the process behind this costume I have a thread on SWNZ and other places (tdh, therpf, mando mercs) but I’m a proud kiwi so go look there ;)

05.28.12 ♥ 31

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lemony68:

Been busy creating the waterfall drapery for the back of the skirt from calico! Im so pleased at how its turned out as I didn’t have a clue what to do! But thanks to http://articles.glittersweet.com/howto/victorian/waterfall.htm for her tutorial! Helped so much! Hopefully this weekend I’ll be able to buy some more fabric and get on with it!!

Glad it helped :) My first try was sort of winged but then I was determined to find a simpler solution :)
I was going to rearrange my website (I had to uninstall wordpress as my host PHP thing clashed and my site totally broke ;) ) but I may just leave the html pages as they are for a while :) Hopefully with some additions soon to the articles sections :) I have a guide on latex application to upload. Not a step by step as such but what to remember when thinking about making or wearing the things.

And I also have a guide to get up there on fitting a victorian bodice… it is so counter to modern fitting. I have yet to see a major company use them, even in amazing period dramas.

Good luck with the rest of the process!

05.15.12 ♥ 4

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omgthatdress:

Bathing Suit

Rudi Gernreich, 1970-1971

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

These two suits (they are different) heavily influenced my Darth Tykhi costume. I wasn’t going to go too close to the original source but it is there.But I wanted a separate skirt and wasn’t sure I’d like to risk all that weight hanging from material at the waist and I also wanted a criss cross belt ;)

Also he is my favourite designer of this time. I really wanted the costumer on a play I was in (set in 1960s NZ) to let my character wear gear like he designed. It suited the character. She wound up in a lot of hippie gear. She would have scoffed at hippies as a trend and would have avoided extreme fashion too.

Clean lines and gear that looked like she could be active in would have been so much better. Especially as you get a sense of superiority from her ;) Like with Lizzy Bennett.

I am talking about Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing.

Also check out how beautiful the lines work with a curvy hip. She is a teeny tiny model but she has definite curves and these lines just let them shine.

05.11.12 ♥ 452

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Karliah (Nightingale Armor) - Skyrim, Cosplay Progress

The makeup is giving me issues. OTL
I’ve discovered that making ‘Dark Elf’ look good is pretty impossible without their bone structure. Not to mention, grey skin looks really, really bad in certain angles and light. It doesn’t help that I’m doing this at night with cheapo florescents. I want to get the contouring of Karliah’s face down, maybe do something different with the lips…But once I do the photoshoot outside in the beautiful daylight forest this weekend, maybe things will kinda work.

In the meantime… I may just ONLY wear the mask and never show my full face at conventions. I shudder at the bad angles and lighting that may happen (flash photography oh gawd)….

you have a gorgeous face, but i think wearing the mask adds to the nightingale character.

Gotta agree with Kristen here :) Your face has great angles for photography:) Though you never know how random photos will look :/ And the mask really lets you be able to play with feirce eyes and not worry about what is happening on the other side of the camera ;) It’s why I love my Shae Vizla cstume :)

On the make up side, how dark do you want to go? And how likely are you to need to repair make up during the event? My all time favourite method of make up is to buff in mica powders. Little velveteen powder puff smushed in the pot and the buffed in to prepared skin. It does last if you use a setting spray over (*cough*hairspray*cough*) and because it is semi transluscent it winds up pretty “natural” and your own highlights and shadows play in to it a lot.

I have major issues with my face flattening out in photos and this is me on high doses of steroids but:
http://gallery.little-noise.com/main.php?g2_itemId=21015

That was “Emerald” by ChiCHi with some other tones put in.
Also bad photos are bad but similar process here:
http://costumes.glittersweet.com/recreations/comics/witchblade.htm

In fact I had people running the Body Art Awards ask me how I did that ;)

Also your costume is looking great :) I’ll have to have a look at the rest of your progress work :)

05.09.12 ♥ 111

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cuteboyswithcats:

they don’t get much cuter than freddie mercury.

-focusthineanarchy

Freddie and his cats <3 Oh yeah. Listen to Delilah from Innuendo. Mad cat lady stuff there but so sweet.

05.06.12 ♥ 607

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shaevizlarules:

#swtor #level50

I have also got my Shae Vizla jetpack almost back together again and the arm displays and “buckles” removed for sanding and detailing. So progress on getting her to Celebration 6 complete is in hand :) But step by step so I can still wear her if occasion calls in the meantime :)

And I really love my in game armour. I want to make this set so badly.

#swtor bounty hunter gear can be hit and miss in terms of style. I adore the very early sets and the level 40 PVP gear and a lot of social gear. But this set? I *looooooooooooooove* it.

Dude it is essentially Barbie Fett. But it also reminds me of Zam and Shae at once. I am not even kidding that I want to make this. You can’t really see but there are aurabesh markings on the helm (over the right eye) and on the thigh (right thigh) so I have been screencapping so I can recreate this. And the light under armour? Looove!!!

Please remind me that I already have Shae and a huge historical costume to try and pack in August? That essentially two sets of identical armour (well in theory, there are obvious differences between game and cinematics) would be silly?

Gah, it’s so damn pretty!!!!!!

That belt and those lower legs were crafted by “me” too XD

05.05.12 ♥ 5

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Always Facing UPwards: Fun with Beato’s dress~~ * (and random kid in the back) I apologise...

facingupwards:

Fun with Beato’s dress~~ * (and random kid in the back)

I apologise for the rant but just before going on stage there was a cosplayer who giggled and said “I’M GOING TO GET UNDER YOUR DRESS~~!” she charged under it and did a full circuit then climbed out laughing. Her friends apologised but…

Do not do unto cosplayers what you not do unto a bride.

Actually just don’t think costume= something to trash/for your enjoyment.Actually we are not here for you, if you appreciate it all that’s great, but you don’t treat the property of others as your own. You do not treat other people as your own property.

You wear clothes you like to the show right? Do you expect to have your hoodie pulled over your head? or people punching logos on your shirt? Or hitting you on your hat? Pinching your ass in skinny jeans? Lifting your skirt to see what is underneath? NO?

Then stop doing that to costumers and cosplayers!

04.27.12 ♥ 15

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“Fat” is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her

I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…

I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’

‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’

What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!

I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

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J.K. Rowling (via feministpizza)

NB I usually find that *men* use fat as an insult, women use “have you lost weight” as a (back handed) compliment. rarely have I seen it vice versa.

Don’t be thinking it is all female competition in here.

Though you’ll find that “fat” is applied as a random insult to women of all sizes. Because it is a lazy, lazy, insult that relies on the years of media attention and peer pressure most western women face. It really is one of those insults that says more about the insulter than insultee as it is so ubiquitous in online shaming.

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