KCandCO
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I started the research for this costume sometime last fall I think, but I finally started really working on it this summer. I also finally have a chance to go to Mickey's Halloween Party this year - who doesn't want to dress up at Disneyland? - so that's my deadline. The friends I'll be going with will all be costuming more traditional Disney characters and I thought about going that route, but I couldn't pass up the chance to run around the Indiana Jones ride and Adventureland as Marion.
This costume and the other few I'm currently working on are dependent on repairs to my sewing machine, which is dependent on job hunting, so updates are going to be touch-and-go and there's a chance I won't finish by October. But I figured I could try to start the thread with the non-sewing parts regardless. And part of the reason I chose to do this costume this year amidst moving and job hunting and Comic-Con is because I already had a lot of materials for it, so I guess this is kind of a low-budget costume project (at least as far as final cost goes).
I have a lot of close-up and fairly good resolution photos of the top of the costume, but it's hard to find references for her shoes. The best I've found are these:
They're kind of hard to see, especially in the second and fourth photos, but I'm pretty sure they're espadrilles/wedges with "rope" along the sides and red fabric for the straps, which are two separate straps: one each across the top of the foot and around the ankle.
I looked around on some shoe stores online and found some viable options, but by chance I found these at a thrift store:
They're not screen accurate - woven instead of stacked "rope" on the sides and slingback instead of separate straps - but they were really cheap and fit pretty well and after some alteration should do okay (at least for a first semi-budget version of this costume).
I took the bows off and did a couple coats of Jacquard Textile Color in 106 True Red. First coat:
And after coat two or three (spreading this our irregularly over several days and doing the photos later still, I honestly lost track):
Obviously problematic. There's an improvement over the first coat, but still too much pattern showing through. I've used the same paint in 110 Violet on tan suede shoes before, but the Violet is a darker color to begin with, darker even than was quite right for that project, so on the suede I only needed one coat. The fabric on these shoes just absorbed this stuff madly overnight, especially the denim on the sides, so after I finished painting each coat it looked good but by the next night the fabric pattern was showing through a lot again. It's not quite so bad with bright light like a camera flash shining directly on it, so I'm hoping in photos at least that'll help hide the pattern. Plus, I'll be wearing them at night and being on my feet they won't be under close scrutiny. I did one more coat of paint after this one then called it good to avoid overdoing it and wrecking the whole job.
This costume and the other few I'm currently working on are dependent on repairs to my sewing machine, which is dependent on job hunting, so updates are going to be touch-and-go and there's a chance I won't finish by October. But I figured I could try to start the thread with the non-sewing parts regardless. And part of the reason I chose to do this costume this year amidst moving and job hunting and Comic-Con is because I already had a lot of materials for it, so I guess this is kind of a low-budget costume project (at least as far as final cost goes).
I have a lot of close-up and fairly good resolution photos of the top of the costume, but it's hard to find references for her shoes. The best I've found are these:
They're kind of hard to see, especially in the second and fourth photos, but I'm pretty sure they're espadrilles/wedges with "rope" along the sides and red fabric for the straps, which are two separate straps: one each across the top of the foot and around the ankle.
I looked around on some shoe stores online and found some viable options, but by chance I found these at a thrift store:
They're not screen accurate - woven instead of stacked "rope" on the sides and slingback instead of separate straps - but they were really cheap and fit pretty well and after some alteration should do okay (at least for a first semi-budget version of this costume).
I took the bows off and did a couple coats of Jacquard Textile Color in 106 True Red. First coat:
And after coat two or three (spreading this our irregularly over several days and doing the photos later still, I honestly lost track):
Obviously problematic. There's an improvement over the first coat, but still too much pattern showing through. I've used the same paint in 110 Violet on tan suede shoes before, but the Violet is a darker color to begin with, darker even than was quite right for that project, so on the suede I only needed one coat. The fabric on these shoes just absorbed this stuff madly overnight, especially the denim on the sides, so after I finished painting each coat it looked good but by the next night the fabric pattern was showing through a lot again. It's not quite so bad with bright light like a camera flash shining directly on it, so I'm hoping in photos at least that'll help hide the pattern. Plus, I'll be wearing them at night and being on my feet they won't be under close scrutiny. I did one more coat of paint after this one then called it good to avoid overdoing it and wrecking the whole job.
