For this costume, you will require experience in piping and art work.
Difficulty factor 8 - 10
Difficulty factor 8 - 10
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NOTE, THAT WE DO NOT
MAKE COSTUMES
TO SELL OR HIRE
NOTE, THAT WE DO NOT
MAKE COSTUMES
TO SELL OR HIRE
Making Disney Rapunzel
Dress
All videos for making the complete costume can be found in our "video tutorials" link
This costume is slightly different, in that it is copied from Disney's Limited Edition Doll Collection
This costume is slightly different, in that it is copied from Disney's Limited Edition Doll Collection
Materials:
Corset:
1/2 metre mauve coloured Duchesse Satin
5 metres pink lace cord
1 open ended zip
Purple Satin fill-in piece
Approximately 20 x 5mm flat back crystals
1 metre purple lining
1 metre Heavy interfacing
Skirt:
4 metres purple Duchesse Satin
4 metres purple chiffon
4 metres purple two tone Organza
Approximately 20 flat back clear crystals
Piece of velcro
Sleeves:
1/2 metre pink polyester satin
1/2 metre purple polyester satin
1/2 metre gold satin for piping
1 metre purple lace trim for upper sleeve
Extras:
Dylon purple and white fabric paint
Purple flocking powder
Piece of thin wadding for sleeves.
7 metres 2cm pink lace
As usual there is no set pattern for making the bodice. I used New Look 6480 for the front panels and Simplicity 2757 for the back panels. I had to alter the front and back panels to extend up to the shoulders and reshape. Only these 4 sections were used as the middle panel is a fill-in piece. You will need a layer of interfacing and lining for each of these pieces.
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Using purple fabric paint, draw on suns and swirls on all the pieces, sprinkle with flocking powder immediately before the paint dries.
When you have sewn it in place, turn all the loops towards the middle and run stitching down the edge to flatten the loops.
To make the outer sleeves, we used the same sleeve pattern.
You will need to make A LOT of piping, so just make as much as possible in one go. Cut the gold polyester approximately 4cm wide, fold it over the cord, then tack below to hold it in place for now. Then put a line of sewing immediately underneath the cord. I put a pin at one end of the cord to stop it moving.
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We need 4 altogether, 2 for each sleeve. The inner sleeve was cut 2" shorter.
I then sewed the handmade lace around the top and bottom of the bodice and threaded the loops.
To make the lace extra special, I backstitched silver thread around all the flowers and between the swags. The last thing to do was put an open ended zip in the back.
Add flat back crystals on and this completes the bodice.
The Skirt
The skirt front is basically a quarter circle, the back is a quarter circle cut in half to allow for a back seam and opening. Using the purple fabric paint and flocking powder, draw suns and circles on all three pieces. This shows the front skirt nearly half finished. Allow a shallow scoop for the waist, this will be attached to a yoke. You will also need to cut 2 more identical skirts from the purple chiffon and two tone organza.
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Being careful to put some scrap fabric or paper between the skirt layers, use the white fabric paint mixed with purple to lighten the colour and draw suns and swirls down each side of the "V" and around the bottom edge. Finish by sewing the pink lace to the bottom of the Satin skirt. It needs to just show below the organza skirt.
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Glue the flat back crystals on the front of the skirt and this concludes the skirt.