Tangled: Rapunzel Cosplay/Commission Pt 2
Welcome to part 2 of my documentation of a cosplay I made for someone! This post contains the FINAL LOOK!!! DUN DUN DUNNNNNN
We left off with pictures of how the dress turned out after a VERY RUSHED four days. As I said in part 1, I was sewing in the zipper of the dress as Rapunzel-to-be stood there about to leave to go to her uncleâs house in preparation for her flight the next day. I thought we had 2 extra days, but she ended up leaving early.
This was super last minute, and so there were a few things that got messed up that I knew I wanted to fix later. When Rapunzel-to-be came back, I took the dress and first of all cut all of the loose threads that were inside. The zipper was also really wonky and had a kind of hole that I fixed as well.Â
In the end, I replaced the thin cord that tied the front of the dress together. I took some leftover ribbon, sewed it in half and voila, a more substantial cord! I also fixed the wonky zipper and hand stitched some ribbon to the ends of upper puff sleeves since before it had exposed zigzag stitching.
Other than the fact that these pictures are posed, I do think that the dress looks tremendously better. Even just changing out the cord for a sewed ribbon really made a difference, not to mention what I said before about adding ribbon to the sleeves to hide the stitching.
Pascal is super cute as well.
Of course there are some things that could be improved upon! If possible I wouldâve loved to have been able to add more to the skirt since the original skirt had a middle panel with an outer layer. Iâve seen other people make the outer skirt later out of mesh, leaving the middle open to expose the middle panel.
Like I said last post though, time constraints really took a toll, and in the end that makes it harder to add any big changes.
Also the skirt fabric gets wrinkled SO easily because itâs actually a lining fabric. Rapunzel-to-be chose it because the color accuracy was spot on. In order to make it mimic actual outer fabrics, I interfaced the entire thing so that it would actually have some weight to it.
In the end, for the first costuming gig I ever took on, this worked out despite all of the challenges (mostly the change in when Rapunzel-to-be needed the dress and when she was leaving). This definitely motivated me to get more into cosplay. I was always interested, but now I can work on cosplays for myself as well!
Stay tuned for more! I have another commission post coming up eventually documenting that process as well.
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