Bleach Shiba Kuukaku Cosplay Costume

If you are a girl who is sexy and want to display your charming figure in the show, or if you wanner try something different from the common suits which is composed of coat and pants, I highly recommend you this bleach Shiba Kuukaku cosplay costume. Take a look at the picture, it looks simple but it seems that there is something special about this piece. So it is simple but is full of charm and character, which could present the particular feminine to the fullest.

Kuukaku Shiba is leader of the Shiba clan and personal friend of Yoruichi Shihōin. She is an energetic young woman of average height with green eyes and wihte headband over her black hair. Gernerally she dresses the outfit in the picture which is in the form of red shirt or a robe and white skirt. And Kuukaku lost her right armwhile has a tattoo on her left arm. What impresses me most is her personality, she is violent and very aggressive, so often scolding and beating those who annoy her, especial her brother Ganju Shiba.

 

Anyhow, cosplay this bleach character is a great choice. This bleach cosplay costume would verver let you down.

White Bleach Sun-sun Cosplay Costume

Yay! This is the bleach Sun-sun cosplay costume, I love it very much. I mean both the outfit and the bleach character Sun-sun. And her real name is Cyan Sung-Sun; she is a slender female Arrancar with long olive-green hair, long eyelashes, and three pink dots below her right eye, which is one of her most distinctive features. Plus she has beautiful lavender eyes, like the eyes of the snake. In addition, I like her hairdo, long and flowing with tidy bangs, it is beautiful.

Cosplay bleach Sun-sun is reall a good choice for cosplay girls, especially for those ones who are foud of the same hairstyle. Of course, the style of this cosplay outfit seems quite simple and plain, but as one of the bleah characters, Sun-sun has her trait that is unique among the others. Meanwhile, she is intelligent and mature.

This bleach costume is provide us with the good opportunity to look the same as Sun-sun one the one hand, and on the other hand it could makes us outstanding and different in the show. Why not have a try?

Exquisite Bleach Cosplay Accessories

Apart from the various kinds of bleach copslay costumes, there are so many Exquisite cosplay accessories for us. And here i would like to share some of them with you, Bleach fans.

Ezio Altair cosplay costume in close time

Cosplay1.com has the honor to make the Ezio altair cosplay costume in such sort notice. We have manage to make the Ezio character also in the past, we make the title " Altair Armour for Assasin's Creed ". I haven't had the chance to play the actual games but since both Ezio fans who ordered this costumes provide many references, makes my work a lot easier.

After I make the first Ezio cosplay costume about 1 year ago, the order of making different version of Ezio always comes to our table. Hope the chance to make them again. Please sent us your cosplay inquiry trough our cosplay costume main site cosplay1.com

Who is the Most Excellent Bleach Cosplayer?

We can not deny that there are always some of the bleach cosplayers who are really excellent enough to attract our attention firmly as long as we take a look at them. And here I list some of the amazing cosplay girls who display charming appearances to us in this post. And who is the most imprssive one in your eyes?

They are cosplaying the four different bleach characters as the picures shows here. On my part, each of them has something attractive that draws us to them. 

This is bleach Ruikia cosplay. I like her big eyes and the wig which looks like her real hair.

She is portraying Tier Halibel, so sexy. It can be said that any of us will be obsessed with her.

Bleach Orihime Inoue cosplay. She looks cute and somewhat sexy as well.

She is impersonating Yoruichi Shihoin. Whoa! Cool!

Of course, they cannot show us their eye-catching job without these bleach cosplay costumes.

the nightcrawler - part three

Judging by the large size of my patterns and the nature of the 4-way stretch fabric I was using, I had to cut my fabric on a massive, flat surface. I usually cut all my fabric on a cutting mat, but knit fabrics must be laid out perfectly flat for cutting, otherwise you will have many, many problems with your sewing later.

Since my apartment has carpeting, I hauled my materials to my friend's apartment and took up half their living room floor. 

Always cut the big pieces first--I cut my 2 folded pieces first. I pinned the shit out of this fabric to avoid shifting while cutting. You can also use fabric weights to minimize breaking the knit stitches.


Laying the pieces out...

I bought 7-1/2 yards of piping. I used all of it while sewing. Yes, a little over 21 feet of piping.


For attaching the piping to the spandex, I used a zig-zag stitch and a zipper foot on my regular sewing machine. To sew the spandex to another spandex piece I used a very tight tension on my overlock machine. Make sure you have test scraps of fabric whenever you sew on your overlock machine to make sure you get the right tension, otherwise your seam will show on the reverse side when stretched.

I think sewing the piping to the spandex was worse than sewing silk bias binding on silk. IT TOOK ME FOREVER.

I sewed half the costume and did a test fit on my boyfriend. It fit to my expectations, so I will be uploading a preview shot this week hopefully! Next I have to make the gloves and feet... gloves. (feet gloves? Is there such a thing? They're not really socks I suppose...)

the nightcrawler - part two

To make my life easier while drafting the pattern for this costume, my bf left me borrow his wetsuit. Obviously neoprene and swimwear spandex have different stretch properties so I had to reduce some of the measurements based on the wetsuit, as well as take some other measurements to ensure the bodysuit would fit properly.

I will blog about the gloves in another post--here I'll first talk about the pattern for the bodysuit. I draft my patterns on pattern paper, which I buy on a roll for $11 at the fabric store in downtown LA. You can buy it at 45" width or 60". I usually buy 45" because I have little need for 60"... until now. My bf is super tall so I had to tape more paper to the width of the roll.

I did some research online and in my personal sewing books to figure out how to properly draft a bodysuit. I decided for this style that we'd use a center back zipper so I bought a 22" regular nylon zipper. I always think about the closures before starting any pattern because how you get in and out of a costume is.. pretty damn important. So based on this costume using a zipper at the center back, I would have to draft 3 patterns total-- front piece, back piece and sleeve.

For the back piece, I drew a long line for the total length of the bodysuit from the top edge of the neck to the ankle. This was my fold line to help with the fabric cutting. I took measurements for the neck width, neck trim height and the highest point of shoulder, or where the neck goes into the shoulder above the collarbone. The other measurements I used I just based them off the wetsuit. I could have reduced each of the measurements by at least 1/4"-1/2" because swimwear spandex has more stretch than neoprene, but I wasn't really sure how the suit was going to fit so I wanted to be able to "trim" and resew, rather than make it way too small and keep wasting material.





The thin red lines are all the straight measurements (halved, of course), the thick blue lines are for the red panel at the back. You can also see that I made little notches at the knees, ankles, chest, waist; these are for marking the fabric when I cut and sew--to ensure I match everything up perfectly.





I added 1" to my CB fold line for the zipper. I added 1" from top to bottom since I will be cutting this pattern on the fold of the fabric, but slashing the fabric along the seam for the zipper.



 
Crotch space is quite important. I took this off the wetsuit, you pervs.
Here's the front piece with the chevron details (not cut yet). I traced the back pattern, pretty much.

Next is the sleeve. As you can notice on the wetsuit, these are raglan sleeves. I am not using raglan sleeves. I am making a regular set-in sleeve (due to the design of the suit), so I had to kind of wing it. I used painters tape to mark off where my armhole was, and laid my cut out pattern on top and traced the armhole.



I took the measurements of the entire "armhole" and drafted a knitted sleeve pattern from the armhole measurements. I remember that the wetsuit's sleeves were not snug when my bf put them on so I took bicep, elbow and wrist measurements of my own.

This pattern might not look like much but it did take me 3 full hours to draft which is pretty long considering there are only 3 pieces to this pattern--there are tons of measurements on this thing! Hopefully when I sew it together I will have few problems...

Bleach Ichigo Cosplay Wigs

As the pictures show that there are main two bleach Ichigo cosplay wigs. One is in the white and another is orange. Actually the former one is the Hollow Kurosaki Ichigo wig, which Ichigo wears in the form of Hollow but not the really Ichigo.

In the preceding part of the anime, Hollow Ichigo is a tall and lean-built guy with white skin and hair. When speaking of him, the most impressive thing about him is his high-sounding laughter and psychotic countenance. He is brutal, arrogant and sadistic. Anyhow, he is still powerful even Ichgo defeats him finally.So this cosplay wig would star you the same as Hollow Ichigo in the cosplay show.

And then is the orange wig, this is the exact one Ichigo has in Bleach. Short spiny cosplay wig, it looks great and somewhat different from the white one. Put on this orange one in the show if you prefer this Ichigo,a more kindhearted and easygoing guy.

tales from the orient, another alice (2)

I realized that almost every single project I work on involves bias binding, which I call the ragequit of sewing. Especially since I usually end up making my own bias binding, I always have a ton of scraps leftover I can't ever use for another project since the colors I choose are always so damn obscure.

On this project especially, I had to use bias binding to finish all the edges of my silk pieces... which is basically the entire dress. Overlocking the edges of a silk piece is blasphemy. Never do it. Merrow edges are ok but those are mostly decorative anyways. I just think overlocking the edge of a silk piece lessens the quality of using silk in the first place (or maybe I just like to torture myself). I used bias strips cut from the lining fabric, which was a soft acetate. Still very difficult to sew considering my silk was stretch silk and the lining is very thin as well. The hem of the skirt is finished with self bias binding (the silk). You can imagine how long this took me, I pretty much wanted to call it a night after sewing the entire hem.


One of these days I better take a picture of all the damn bias binding I cut in one year.
 Bias-bound edges for the silk pieces.
Lining pieces are overlocked ^

There is 1 zipper along the side of the dress as I did not want to put a zipper along the center back--I thought it would look cheap and gross.

For the cuffs, I pinned 3/8" width satin ribbon (this costume had a triple whammy-- silk charmeuse, double faced satin ribbon, AND bias binding=ragequit) and stitched these very carefully in place. Yes I interfaced the cuffs. I hand-gathered the sleeves along the cap (not along the entire cap, for a total width of 5", which was reduced to 3") I hand-gathered the bottom of the sleeve to fit my cuffs. Sewing cuffed sleeves are easy unless you have a tiny ass bicep and you have to end up hand-sewing the cuff along the inside because you can't wedge the fabric between the machine arm and the needle. For me it is easier to sew the entire sleeve piece, then attach the sleeve to the armhole because I don't want to have to deal with handling the entire dress just to sew on a damn cuff or something.




You can see that the ribbon does not match along the cuff seam--I didn't mind this because the ribbon is randomly placed in the reference images. Also, unless someone is staring underneath your arms, nobody is really going to notice this.

If you're going to be hand-gathering a lightweight fabric such as silk charmeuse, I highly suggest loosening your stitch tension and gently tugging the fabric while sewing to help the fabric move along smoothly. Or you could buy a walking foot that might make it easier. I will probably need to invest in one as I've been sewing all kinds of different things these days.

The petticoat is shown as below. I overlocked all the edges as you can see. If you sew a lot I suggest you spend the money and buy a serger, this one was about $300-$350 and you can use it for knits as well. I have the option of switching between a single-needle and double-needle option, which is great. Totally worth your money if you sew alllllll the time.




I sandwiched the ruffle as below, and you can see how using these 2 colors creates a cool effect.


 Hand-gathered. This piece ended up being about 7 - 8' long, so I was sitting here gathering fabric for quite a while....

The pink layer is on the outside, yellow on the inside.




To finish up the dress, I had to sew the ruffles/pleats--I chose to go with pleats--at the center front. I used the leftover linen from my apron fabric and hand-pleated the trim. I just eyed the pleats as I stitched because I'm lazy and didn't want to mark equal distances on my pleats. Don't be lazy ok?



I sandwiched the pleats between the lining and the self fabric, right sides together. After you turn both inside out, you will have a beautiful clean edge as my photos below. It takes a bit of time and there's a ton of ironing involved but it's totally worth it. I don't even iron my day-to-day clothes on a regular basis.

Aaaaand here's a preview of what I've got so far! Yes the petticoat is sticking out a bit too much so I'll have to reduce it from the waistband area.




The only things left for me to do on this dress are to sculpt the necklace, dye the obi ties, and make the mask to finish the obi. I will be purchasing the stockings and boots.