11/14/2022 0 Comments Hand sewn phantom of the opera mask![]() ![]() After only less than fifteen minutes of planning, I began to attach the trim of this decorative front panel. This was done the morning of the first day of the convention, before I had to attend college classes. To complete the doublet, the front panel and all decorations were hot-glued as well. This was hot-glued on, as at this point, time was running very short. In those photos, the gold rope trim along the edge of the doublet and its peplum is visible. The base of each tier completed, the additional wine gold trim added to the cuff tier.Īnd the sleeves in their absolutely entirety ended up looking a little like this: The cuff tier partially stitched down, partially pinned. Pardon my dirty mirror and poor picture quality – these progress pictures were never intended to provide documentation for anything more than an Instagram story. I also recall having watched the Charles Dance version of Phantom as I completed the final tier of ribbon. My time-management for this costume, as mentioned in Pt. I did a lot of this sewing crouching on the floor beneath a chair, and much of it within two days. ![]() ![]() This took quite some time to perfect, and after much deliberation, I developed a system which revolved around strips of ribbon, which were each hand-tacked to the sleeve body. I was widely unsuccessful in finding a tutorial suitable to this project, and thusly, was on my own for it from the start. After the poet sleeves had been attached to the doublet, I began to measure out where I wanted each tier of the outer sleeve to lay in relation to my proportions. The sleeves, by far, were the most daunting portion of the costume to me. The cuffs of the sleeve were gathered onto a 1/2″ elastic band slightly larger than the circumference of my wrist. Those sleeves were constructed essentially out of a plain tube of the red suiting fabric, gathered and attached directly to the armscye of the doublet. Next came the shoulder flares, and then, massive poet sleeves. I drafted my own, and secured them to the doublet. After this, I discarded the peplum pattern pieces, as I was unhappy with their shape in comparison to the more rounded peplum shown on the current Broadway costume. I also hemmed the bottom edge of the doublet itself, because it ended up being far too long to accommodate the codpiece. This was accomplished with a tiny running stitch at the edge of each armscye. I completed the doublet body in size L, and had to take it in quite a bit. I began construction with Simplicity 4059, in View B. I failed to photograph or record much of this process, and so apologies for the lack of photos and heavy amount of text. 1 of this write-up, my Red Death costume was the most ambitious ensemble I have made to date, and this truly showed in the construction of it. ![]()
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