Madame de pompadour by estilicious

Something different fascinator collection by estilicious

le chevalier d'eon cosplay by estilicious

princess of the night romantic ballerina tutu

part of the estlicious dance collection, black romantic tutu with black wet look leotard decorated with lace and rhinestone detail.

Body double cosplay mannequin

If your into DIY and want a body double this is the project for you. A few weeks ago I googled body double mannequin and got amazing results, personally i was expecting to find manufactured resulted but was surprised when I found some really Interesting articles.

one of the internet articles that I found very helpful is this link below by threads magazine.

http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/3659/clone-yourself-a-fitting-assistant/page/all

After reading this articles I decided to have a go but first I had to do a bit more research so I went on YouTube to see other peoples experiences.


These are the steps I took to make my mannequin.

Things you'll need

News paper, expanding foam, duck tape, small plastic bottle, cardboared, old shirt

1, get someone to duck tape your body,make sure you use 3 layers of tape. After you've finished doing the duck tape cut the duck tape vertically down the back( Please be careful )

2, when your out of the duck tape, put a hangar in it and tape the body form duck tape up at the back.

3, start rolling tight news paper balls and stuff the torso up to the hips and arms. Then spray expanding foam into the neck area so the hanger will stay put when dried.

4, when the expanding foam is dried cover the neck and arm wholes with cardboard circles and tape them up.






5, spray expanding foam into the rest of the torso and place a plastic bottle in the middle of the expanding foam. Then cover the bottom of the mannequin with a cardboard base and a whole for the bottle. Then tape the bases make sure not to cover the whole because the whole point of the whole is so you can put your mannequin onto a stand.


6, to make a cover for your mannequin trace around it making sure to add seam allowance and then just stitch around it leaving the neck and bottom open.


And this was my result, not bad for my first go and my last lol im not going though the agony of duck tapping myself again but it was really worth it tho :). The mannequin is fab to work with and the measurements and body shape matches my own body so with a bit of patience it really does work.

Finshed Duck tape mannequin

with cover

Floral 18th century corset

As you can tell I have a great love for corsets and as a costume maker my fav fashion period is the 18th century. I mostly like the 18th century because of the old French court fashion in versailles.

I know from a historical point of view my costume is totally incorrect but a girl needs to have fun. I mean look at the Tudors the scrip was more incorrect then the costumes lol but we totally loved it.

For the photo-shoot of my corset I made a matching hat just to give it a bit of extra fun. This is the first big hat that iv made so it's not too great bit hopefully the next one will be much better.

Visit to Birmingham museum

Went to Birmingham the other day after I finished shopping I had a nice walk and found out that there was a lovely museum. I guess that after seeing so much retail one can get a bit tired and the best cure for that is art. There is nothing as nice as walking around a relaxing art gallery viewing all the wonderful creations on display.

I was so excited when I realised that that they had a pink corset of display. It was so tiny it almost look like a child corset but I'm not too sure. The colour was a lovely dusky pink with an added black lace trim.

By the look of it seems to be made out of silk and channels look like cotton but not too sure. The really nice thing about it is that it has the makers name inside but was really hard to see.

I totally recommend having a look around Birmingham art gallery they even give you permission to take photos and you can't say that for most art galleries.