Wonderful Memories

COSTUME COMMISSION - OCT/NOV '21

    Thank you October - November 2021! It's a wrap, I'm really grateful for the opportunity working with such a great people. I'm working on a dance cover group costume and it's from Stray Kids with their song "Thunderous". For me, it's a reunion with an old workmate, seven of the members of this dance cover were my co-workers at the company.

    Actually, I was quite surprised by the deadline given. Less than three weeks of work, but I was convinced by their spokesperson that I was able to do this after seeing a video of Haori (outer traditional Japanese dress) that I've made. Therefore, I am sure to take this given opportunity. 

    After searching hanbok definition through wikipedia. I've discovered that the clothes I've been made named jaegori and it's the basic upper garment of the hanbok, worn by both men and women. It covers the arms and upper part of the wearer's body.

    There's something unique about this shirt. At first I hesitated to choose which pattern method was best used to make jaegori. After doing a break down of each pieces of the clothes and consider that all the clients this time are men. I decided to make a different pattern than usual (type / way of making patterns, affecting the results of clothing). To be honest, this month I received quite a lot of package orders with very tight deadlines and it's a challenging for me.

    To be honest, I always do purchasing by online and this time the purposes to go to offline store is irresistible. We (I and their spokesperson) choose the best material for the outfit. At first, I was terrified when read this message (the urge buying offline) lmao. Sure, this client is an exception, I never do an offline shopping on this pandemic and here I'm break my parents rule. Nevermind, we go up there with standard health protocol, using mask and carrying hand sanitizer in our bag. After finish buying the material, we got three types of fabric, such as sateen silk, gold patterned lame, and chiffon.

Going outside //please welcome makhluk goa//

All fabrics

PATTERN MAKING & CUTTING PROCESS

    At the measurement part, I thought they will have three different sizes by looking at their body shape and yeah, I guess it right. One client with L size and the other are mostly M with two member are S. After doing this step, I'll start to group them based on body shape and then the type of clothing pieces to be used. This makes it easy when cutting and sewing process.

I made six different pattern for this costume set

Behind the scene, every sewing part

    The most complicated thing about this costume is when cutting materials, because after being done it turns out they have a lot of pieces and also I use interfacing at some parts. Thankfully I was able to finish this costume in a week, so there was time for fittings and repairs if there were parts that didn't fit.

Black sateen silk

White chiffon

Sleeves part-- Seungmin's and Hyunjin's

White sateen silk

Gold patterned lame

PHOTO CATALOGUE - ALL MEMBERS

    The hardest costume in my opinion is Hyunjin's and Seungmin's. The gold parts on the arms and shoulders should be fused and that is quite difficult to do because of the curved surface of the fabric piece. It takes a lot of effort to do it haha. The easiest costume was Changbin's, because it comes without too much detail and the simplicity.

• Han 

• Seungmin

• I.N

• Hyunjin

• Lee Know

• Felix

• Changbin

    It feels, if I get this order again, I can already calculate the appropriate calculation of time, cost and service price.It's nice to be able to finish it before the deadline falls. I've also taken photos and videos that can be seen on my SNS.

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    Well, I thought about making a keychain a few times and here I finally made Venti & Zhongli inspired keychain. Nothing too special here, because the material I use for earrings is also the same as the keychain. Perhaps the difference is the design and size only. Without lingering anymore, let me just show you the photos.

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    These are some of the earrings I made because they were inspired by the Tokyo Revengers animation. Previously, I had made Izana, Kakucho, Mitsuya, and Hanma. This time there is the addition of Kazutora in this post. When I uploaded these earrings on e-commerce, someone asked about clip earrings (clip earrings can be used for people who don't have piercings in their ear). So because of this matter, I re-photographed the product to be posted on e-commerce. 

       Ah actually, I had planned to buy the clip earring at first. Unfortunately, the item I ordered was wrong and I ended up using hook earring for my first post on e-commerce. I'm glad that the second purchase was successful and the item I ordered came according to the descriptions, so here I can re-photographed these products.

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    I was finally able to make one of the character costumes from Genshin Impact. Yoimiya from the beginning of her appearance had already stolen my attention. I actually have an orange fabric like her design. That's why I finally decided to make this costume. Sometimes the way I choose a cosplay character to play is quite unique, I often match the fabric / wig that I have, so I can cut the budget enough to create a new cosplay project.

    I think this cosplay project is one of the most expensive for me. Actually, when you viewed from the outside, the costume is not too fancy or even seem ordinary but what makes it different is I tried to  maximized the type of fabric I used on this project. Some of the fabrics I use are premium dutches, glitter jacquard, and fabrics that have texture and there are nylon threads that are visible if exposed to light.

    For Yoimiya's clothing motifs design, I do it manually and spend up to five days (sometimes it cost 4 hours a day or even more). When compared between sewing work with manual painting, of course you will spend more time on manual painting. I did it happily, because it had been a long time not drawing on the cloth.

    The thing that makes it difficult in this cosplay is the accessories section. I had quite a hard time with Yoimiya's hairdressing and also I spent quite a lot of time choosing the type of strap I used for her leg accessories. It's nice to see everything get done well and the part I couldn't finish was the vision, the bracelet, the tattoo, and the arrow.

    The thing I can't forget when working on this project is the work on the large spaghetti obi. I spent almost 2kg of dakron to fill 4.5m red jacquard fabric and 3m white motif cotton fabric. The two fabrics above must be multiplied by two, because this spaghetti is wrapped around each other.

    The fun thing is working on the bustier part. I use stagen (commonly used by birthing mothers) with a length of 10m fabric, I can use it for bustiers, arm accessories and thighs.

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    Onmyoji is one of the mobile games that I love. Initially interested because of the details of the characters' clothes in it, then instead continued the game for several months. Unfortunately when I started entering the office world, I couldn't play this game intensely and decided to stop. This happened at the end of 2018.

    In December 2020, I plan to realize Onmyoji cosplay. One of them is SP Guardian Ubume. This character has intricate details and is also beautiful, so at the beginning of 2021 I tried to contact the fabric printing place to ask the price of services, the type of fabric and the length of the printing process. I feel lucky to be able to realize this cosplay in the midst of pandemic conditions. I have to thank the client who entrusted the costume work to me at that time, because with that income I was able to start this project.

    Actually, I just had the idea of working on September 2021. Quite a long time from the original plan of Januari 2021. With the fabric material that I have at home, I'm not barely spending a penny here. Only the fabric of the skirt that I bought new, this is because my fabric is not long enough so I decided to buy it online (we're in the middle of pandemic and this is a better choice in my opinion bcs there's restrictions in my region).

    I really like these clothes, I tend to like layered and complicated clothes. Of course, the effort to make clothes like this is greater than others. But it's worth the end result. On the haori, I use furing in it and it's quite complicated to work with. To be honest, I didn't use any patterns at all in the work of this costume, I just used an approximation and immediately carried the fabric I had. It's nice to be able to work on a costume without making the pattern, because it saves more work time.

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YouTube Video of SP Guardian Ubume Costume: https://youtu.be/Wt-27PgIWIc