Padme – Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (Lake Gown

Made for: Dragoncon 2002

Background: I absolutely fell in love with the dress the moment I saw it on screen, so it became my main project for Dragoncon 2002.

Journal Entries: Read more at my Padme Lake Dress tag (Includes all versions I’ve made)

Related Costumes: Padme Lake Dress 2019, Padme Lake Dress 2008, Padme Lake Dress July 2006, Padme Lake Dress March 2006, Padme Lake Dress Disneybound

Patterns Used:
None

Dress:

I started out by making a simple sheath halter dress out of yellow cotton. Then, I used a fabric that I loved for the outer dress – I had previously used it for my makeshift Princess Leia earlier that year. It’s a silky-feeling blend that has a slight shimmer to it and takes dye nicely – to this day (2020) I have no idea exactly what that fabric WAS… I used it for a lot of stuff back in the early 2000s and have never found it again. (Also RIP Hancock Fabrics) I think it may have been a lingerie-fabric that had a slight stretch to it?

This was before I had a dressform, so I put the sheath dress on and my mom and I draped the white fabric around me and cut, pinned and sewed it where we thought it should go. Sewed the “sleeves” closed at the upper arm, and once all the fabric was sewn in place, I dip-dyed it – very carefully!! I had 3 bins set up with each colour dye and dipped each segment in, with help from my mom to hold up the areas I did NOT want falling into the dye.

Jewelry:

The necklace I made of craft foam, thermo-plastic and craft metal – my dad helped cut the craft metal parts. The armbands were brass bangles and silver thermo-plastic. As of 2020, the silver thermo-plastic sections have shattered on the bangles so there’s not much left of them.

Accessories:

Not knowing what to do about shoes, I wore sandals. I tried to do my hair by using a hairpiece, originally, but gave up after Dragoncon and just wore a ribbon in my hair as the first headband, and wrapped around the rest of my hair, with the length tucked in at the neck.

History:

I’ve remade this costume twice in 2006 and once again in 2008; finally, in 2019 I made my final version I am finally happy with.. I do still have this 2002 version and I am honestly very nostalgic about it LOL.

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