Beatrix

This is a Retired Costume! This category includes costumes that are old, retired, or worn once, or just don’t have enough information to warrant a full portfolio page.

Beatrix – FF9
Made for Animazement 2001
Other Appearances: N/A

Beatrix was my first big “serious” costume. And it was a little bit beyond my skill set at the time.

My grandma helped me and mom make the jacket – based on a dress pattern, using a khaki cotton with navy cotton for the lining, and a dark red knit for the collar. We used the same dark red knit to make a pair of pants I’d wear (instead of tights because I had no idea how to find tights that colour). The metallic details on the straps on the front I did with gold puff paint. I also painted the rose on the back of the jacket using fabric paint – it’s my fav part of the costume.

The eyepatch I made out of leftover navy blue cotton from the lining – same for the gloves. Yeah I tried to make fitted gloves out of cotton. The armor pieces were all cardboard tape roll tubes I painted, and they velcroed onto the lovely gloves.

I skipped making the “briefs” that were supposed to go over the pants/tights because I had no idea how to make that without it looking like a diaper.

The boots were some I had, with some vinyl boot covers with the details painted on.

My belt was black vinyl, and dad helped me make a big “buckle” out of gold lamé fabric. I had no idea wigs were a thing, so I tried to curl my own hair.

I wore this pretty much all day Saturday at Animazement. I realized it needed some more work so when I got home, I immediately got online and bought some blue gloves to start rebuilding the gloves. But that’s as far as I ever got.

Took a few more pics of it around the house before I retired it. I keep playing around with the idea of totally remaking this fr