Author Topic: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
Cerebral-Rent 
Registered: Jul '05
23692_Shaak Ti
Date Posted: 6/23/06 9:54am Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
Saweet. Kay, let's try that...

 

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Amanita 
Registered: May '03
40693_Shaak Ti
Date Posted: 6/23/06 9:48pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
The other thing I do is I connect the tabards together at the back with a small piece of fabric. That way they don't get seperated and lost.

 

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HardwareStoreJedi 
Registered: Mar '06
13778_Princess Leia<br>South Park
Date Posted: 7/5/06 9:04am Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide - Date Edited: 7/5/06 9:57am (1 edits total) Edited By: HardwareStoreJedi
Another tabard question: is it permissable to do the tabard/belt combo in a *contrasting* color to the outer tunic? All the Jedi I've seen have the same color for the tabard/belt combo. I think that it would look better on me if I went with a contrasting dark brown to go over the khaki outer tunic. Dark colors just look better on someone like me..."dark to diminish." I have enough fabric to do the tabard/belt in khaki but I just think this would look better. What say ye, fellow costumers?

Update: duh, looked at a bunch of RL/TJA Jedi costumes and it certainly looks like a contrasting tabard/belt is acceptable. Actually what I will be doing is more like a Japanese chanchanko vest, only there will not be a side panel. The obi will be a part of the chanchanko/tabard vest thing.

So here's the rundown:

Done:
* Cappucino-colored brown ankle-length skirt
* Coffee-colored brown hooded over-robe
* Olive drab/brown mottled "inner tunic" dickey from Simplicity 5840. Note this fabric is not woodland camo, but a mottled fabric that looks like the variegations on a leaf.
* Khaki with brown and olive/brown mottled head wrap. I always wear a bandana on my head when at a con because it is often WICKED HOT on the con floor and this keeps the sweat out of my eyes. If Luminara Unduli can wear both headgear and a hooded robe, so can I.
* Brown suede "Earth boots" purchased last year.

To do:
* Khaki colored outer tunic
* Espresso colored "chanchanko vest" style tabard/obi combo, inspired by the book "Make Your Own Japanese Clothes" by Marshall, ISBN 0-87011-865-X. Will have some of the olive/brown mottled fabric for accents at the collar.

All fabric is 100% cotton. Most is plain cotton or cotton twill, but the khaki is a cotton sateen that has a very subtle sheen to it. Most fabrics from Woodbury University and FIDM fabric sales...score! ^_^

 

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Independence1776 
Registered: Feb '06
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Date Posted: 7/29/06 12:53pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
I need help. My sister and I are making our first costumes, and we don't really know how to sew (we're enlisting our mother to help). The problem lies in the fact that we have a pattern for the tunics, but we need to alter it to fit the Jedi tunics better. And we don't know how to do that.

The pattern is Simplicity 4134, a kimino pattern. I will be making both the long and short versions, and my sister will be making the short version only.

Any help or suggestions for altering the pattern is greatly, greatly appreciated.

 

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Jaren_Valnor 
Registered: Sep '04
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Date Posted: 7/29/06 1:36pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
Can someone point me towards a good pattern for an undertunic? If there's modifications, that's okay, just be specific. I'm not sewing, but a friend is.

 

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Jedi_Kai 
Registered: May '01
15590_Jedi
Date Posted: 8/5/06 12:04pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide - Date Edited: 8/5/06 12:06pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Jedi_Kai
The same kimono pattern, just alter the sleeves to make them very long and narrow. Cut them on the bias to get the max stretch out of the fabric and fit them so they barely stretch over your fist. Cut several inches too long, and the sleeves will "ruck" in the correct way.

I also make it a bit shorter.

illustration of bias:
http://public.fotki.com/Kait/star_wars/host/bias.html

rucked sleeve:
http://public.fotki.com/Kait/star_wars/host/rucked.html

My tutorial:
http://home.comcast.net/~jedikai/Part2.pdf

 

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Sister_Sola 
Title: Manager, Costuming & Props
Registered: Nov '02
19254_Queen Amidala
Date Posted: 9/17/07 5:17pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
Bumped for recent query. happy

 

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DarthTiki 
Registered: May '02
23547_Anakin Skywalker
Date Posted: 10/16/07 1:30pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
There's a great set of boots from the Sarah Jessica Parker Bitten Collection @ Steve & Barry's. Now if I can convert them to men's size I'd be set

 

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Miba 
Registered: Feb '04
6878_Admiral Daala
Date Posted: 11/25/07 5:25am Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
I was wondering how you make a hood stay up on the cloak. I made a Jedi cloak and when the hood's up it tends to blow back down almost immediately just from walking, even if there's no wind. How do you keep the hood up?

 

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moosemousse 
Title: CR - FF:UK South
Registered: Oct '04
46065_Rianna Saren
Date Posted: 12/2/07 12:37pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
Is there any difference between generic male and generic female Jedi robes?

 

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Jedi_Kai 
Registered: May '01
15590_Jedi
Date Posted: 12/10/07 11:37pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
Miba : that's a problem many have. There have beens some discussions about it elsewhere. One of my ideas was to use a hair comb, pinned to the inside of the hood and then attached to my hair. http://public.fotki.com/Kait/star_wars/host/comb.html

moosemousse: Not necessarily, except for the fit...some do a different cut to accomodate the differences in form. A few women have taken to wearing long, dark brown, skirts (a la Jocasta Nu).

 

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SUGARBANTJINN 
Registered: Apr '07
18918_Aayla Secura
Date Posted: 12/14/07 10:08am Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
idk if this has already been addressed here as i havn't taken the time to read the whole thread, but i am attempting to make a Tholoth Headdress, like Adi Gallia and Stass Allie wear. does anyone know where i can find a pattern for such, or some ideas at least?

 

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Jedi_Kai 
Registered: May '01
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Date Posted: 12/14/07 11:35pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide - Date Edited: 12/14/07 11:37pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Jedi_Kai
If you look at the top line in the (currently) green band at the top, you will see "thread index".

Adi Gallia http://boards.theforce.net/message.asp?topic=12401001&replies=10 but it doesn't seem to have any info about the head dress

 

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SUGARBANTJINN 
Registered: Apr '07
18918_Aayla Secura
Date Posted: 12/15/07 7:40pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
bummer deal. just as well, i guess. i'm kinda already blundering my way through it, using pictures from the movies and pictures of the action figures as reference. :P

 

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SoulpatrolJEDI 
Registered: Nov '07
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Date Posted: 5/6 5:59pm Subject: RE: The Complete Jedi Costume Guide
need some good jedi boots. price range 100-200 bucks. please help, running outta time before an event sad

 

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