Hild – Ah! My Goddess

Made for: Project A-Kon 2004

Background: I pretty much love any and all Ah! My Goddess costume designs so I had to tackle this one.

Journal Entries: Read more at my Hild tag

Related Costumes: Manga Belldandy, Belldandy, Urd

Patterns Used:
Butterick 4301 (altered)

Dress:

Started out with dark blue satin, and used the same pattern I used for Urd in 2002 – altered for, obviously, the plunging neckline, and also adding sleeves, and the shaped train in the back.
For all the pink areas, I made them separately and sewed them on top of the basic dress. I used the same kind of fabric, just yellow, for all the yellow parts. All of the trim had to be made so that it all matched. All of the streamers I made a pattern for, then made each one out of the pink fabric, and interfacing, and attached them to the dress with brass hoops. There’s also brass hoops joined into the pink applique areas as well as brass nailheads to create the little “studs”.

Wig:

The wig was made of three different white wigs – my Urd wig and my Amalthea wig, plus a third one which I bought and cut up. The two main wigs were sewn together – one made the front section with the front pigtails, and other made the longer ponytail in the back. The third one I used to make the fan behind the “hat”. The hat I made of foam and covered in fabric, and sewed into the wig. The fan of hair I glued to the back of the hat, and styled it with clear Elmer’s glue. All of the hair ornaments were made of balls covered in friendly plastic and painted. They’re all removeable. The two next to the hat I left off for A-kon, because I didn’t like how they looked, but I put them back on for later cons.

Accessories:

The shoes I bought online and sewed the gold rings onto (and they are THE most uncomfortable thing), and the arm and ankle bands I made of foam and covered in fabric – first a layer of some leftover yellow spandex and then my matching yellow fabric on the outside edge of it. And for the face markings, like with my previous Oh! My Goddess costoumes, my dad made a stencil for me and I paint them on with liquitex.

History:

Very hard to wear costume – the wig is SO heavy, the shoes HURT, the entire front of the dress is taped on, I keep stepping on the streamers and my train, it’s pretty overwhelming to wear… but I loved the overall look. Worth it.

In 2023 I finally got her out and did a white backdrop shoot. Haven’t worn it since 2005 so it definitely needed some small alternations – I repaired and restyled the wig, fixed the hoops on the shoes, and had to let out the hips to get into again! But so glad to have some white backdrop shots of it.

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