The first big themed party at school had the theme series. I went as Xena.
I made all the stuff just for this event, and all the leather things except the corset is made out of vegetable tanned cowhide from Italy.
The arm braces have a tooled pattern on them, so does the shoulder piece and arm rings.
Before tooling
Halfway done
All done
All the pieces have been cut by hand and there are a LOT of rivets in that skirt.
The corset is one layer coutil and one layer of soft leather from a old jacket I had laying around.
All lain out on the table
I made the shakra out of paper clay which I put tinfoil on with decoupage technique.
I also braided a bull whip out of leftovers from my moose apron.
The arm braces are coloured, hand painted and then shaped with water to make them sit nicely around the arms.
Small buckles keep them on.
Arm rings.
Shoulder piece.
It have also been coloured, hand painted and moulded to fit the body while wet.
A iron bra made out of wire. This one I ended up not using since it fitted so badly when I got the corset on.
Sadly I do not have any pictures of it on me.
December 30, 2009 at 8:42 pm
[...] In December I made a lot of stuff but I have not posted about all I made yet. I did make a Xena outfit for a costume party at school, I did a lot of Christmas related stuff, chocolate, gift wrapping and [...]
January 12, 2010 at 4:06 am
Hi,
Your Xena costume looks great. Can you post a picture of the xena skirt by itself?
Thanks
January 17, 2010 at 2:12 am
thank you, sure, I’ll make a post about it :)
January 17, 2010 at 3:05 am
Can you post the xena skirt so I can see the waist line. I’m curios how you did it.