I saw these dress form Christmas Trees for sale and thought it could be improved. I’ve been making costumes for 13 years and wanted to give myself a challenge. Except for the wig, every piece was handmade.
-I cut up an old skirt to make the corset and used the biggest zip ties as boning
- Tore apart wreaths for greenery, pinecone, and silver pieces
- Cut up a hoop skirt and designed a chicken wire underskirt for support
- Used scrap leather for the harness
- Hand sewed 160 keychain rings onto the green high-low skirt I made, so branches could be attached
- Got a bunch of garland from a craft store and had a friend wire cut them into different sizes, to shove into the keychain rings and make it look like a Christmas tree
- Sewed the collar
- Modded fake white Poinsettia flowers so they could be attached to the corset, headpiece, and skirt
- Used a wire, fake cardinal, and pieces ripped from the wreaths to make the Headpiece
I’m so proud and so happy! It was the most time consuming, expensive, and complex costume I’ve ever made and it’s the cleanest and most gorgeous thing I could have imagined!
Though I have no idea where to store it (it’s been my literal Christmas tree this season) and the skirt alone weighs about 35lbs. 😅
Funky, I love it!
It would be kind of neat if you had a headpiece that made your head look like a tree topper, like a star.
First time this community came up on my feed. Good to see, we need more cool hobby subs on Lemmy
All leaves and no b-
sees dog on the right
Ok, there’s the bark
Dumb jokes aside, it looks amazing!
Only firs
What a wonderful dress and headpiece. It looks like the best kind of craft. Did you end up wearing it to a Christmas event to show off?
I assume since she mentions sales that it was after Christmas.
I LOVE it!
I’m a bit of a Christmas fanatic, starting decorating my house and wearing Christmas shirts by November 1 by the latest, ONLY because I enjoy my Halloween madness too much to preempt it. I think I have enough shirts to wear a different one daily for about 3.5 months…
I love the literal interpretation, the amazing execution and the look on your dogs face ;)
This looks really fucking cool!
Also the dog looks like it knows the chaos that was involved
That’s actually a sick idea. Does it not get a bit prickly though?
Most importantly what’s the pups name and why do they look all 🥺
Coooool…
I love everything about this, especially the pupper. Well done!
That’s really cool and creative. Is it uncomfortable to wear?
This is amazing - so imaginative and creative!
woah that’s a lot of effort! great job!
Do you have more pics? I want to see more!
Uh huh…
Purely for fashion reasons, I assure you! 😅
Looks really nice! I wish those were real Cardinals.
