Princess Leia – 2002 Version

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Princess Leia
Made For the Attack of the Clones midnight show, 2002
Other Appearances: Dragon Con 2002, 2003

I wanted to wear a costume to the midnight show of Attack of the Clones in 2002. The only problems were I did not have any Star Wars costumes (YET lol), and I decided this 2 days before the show.

I knew mom had her old Bride of Frankenstein costume, so I thought maybe that would work. We tried it on me, and it was too raggedy looking, plus too short. So the day before the show, mom and I ran to the fabric store and got some of the same fabric she’d used for the Bride of Frankenstein, and quickly threw together a dress. (I loved this fabric, I also used it for my first Padme lake gown, the white parts of my Belldandy, and a few other little things. It took dye beautiful, it had a slight shimmer to it. I’ve been trying to figure out exactly what this fabric was ever since).

So this costume was basically just two pieces with neckholes cut in the top, and then holes cut for the belt to go through. The belt was my She-Ra belt. Bought some braids and pinned them around my own hair that I twisted up into buns on either side of my head.

I had a lot of fun in this. Obviously it’s not accurate but we all start somewhere. It ended up coming in handy, fitting several of my friends as Leia or working as other characters for a few more years. I thought I still had this costume, but in 2020 I went looking for it to film some footage of all of my Leia costumes, and I could not find it. I don’t know if it got loaned out and didn’t come back, or it’s mis-categorized somewhere. I feel like in the last 5 years I’ve gone through EVERYTHING in the course of moving, rearranging, etc and I feel like I should’ve found it by now, so I’m suspecting it is indeed lost. 🙁 But I’m holding out hope I stumble across it one day. If I do I’m doing a white backdrop shoot!