Jinx - Teen Titans
I thought Jinx was super-cute in that perkygoth way when I first saw the show, so when Xiola started badgering people to do Teen Titans costumes with her, it didn't take much convincing for me. The dress was more difficult than I'd anticipated, as I hadn't sewn much PVC before and it was really annoying to work with (sandwiching everything between tissue paper, picking out the bits of tissue paper afterwards, having to topstitch everything, piping a point) but it turned out pretty well and was not as stiflingly hot as I'd thought it would be.
I'd been at my wits' end for what fabric to use because in the cartoon her dress is drawn as black with a purple shine, and no fabric like that exists. Shiny black fabric has a white shine, as does shiny purple fabric. Xiola and I found this metallic purple snakeskin PVC while fabric shopping and decided to veer away from total accuracy in the interests of coolness, and I'm pretty happy with the results.
I initially wore tights with narrower stripes, and eventually made leggings with the more accurate wider stripes.
The wig is the big eye-catcher with this costume - it was only my second time doing major wig surgery, but I learned from my mistakes with Windy so Jinx was comfortable to wear, fit over my hair, and was pretty durable (a good thing considering I kept smacking the tips of the 'horns' into things and people all day).
This costume is retired, as the dress vinyl has degraded badly.
I'd been at my wits' end for what fabric to use because in the cartoon her dress is drawn as black with a purple shine, and no fabric like that exists. Shiny black fabric has a white shine, as does shiny purple fabric. Xiola and I found this metallic purple snakeskin PVC while fabric shopping and decided to veer away from total accuracy in the interests of coolness, and I'm pretty happy with the results.
I initially wore tights with narrower stripes, and eventually made leggings with the more accurate wider stripes.
The wig is the big eye-catcher with this costume - it was only my second time doing major wig surgery, but I learned from my mistakes with Windy so Jinx was comfortable to wear, fit over my hair, and was pretty durable (a good thing considering I kept smacking the tips of the 'horns' into things and people all day).
This costume is retired, as the dress vinyl has degraded badly.
