Hello, I am currently interested in making a Mom Lalonde cosplay. I see you and your mother did a really good Mom Lalonde in the past. Did you buy her jacket/dress somewhere or was that hand made? Thank you in advance!
Thank you! Unfortunately, I sewed it entirely by hand, so I can't recommend a dress to alter (a long coat seems like it would be made of a very heavy fabric, which could be hard to work with). I used an old dress pattern (Very Easy Vogue, V8146) for a sleeveless dress and modified it to include cap sleeves and extra interfacing to make the shoulders stand by themselves. Theoretically, you could get a longer sleeveless dress and use the extra fabric at the bottom to create the shoulders, though! Making the front actually button would have been a nightmare and I didn't have a lot of extra time before the con, so I just hand-sewed a black ribbon down the front to create the line and built in a zipper in the back.