If you could not tell already, everything around here is all about Star Wars costuming.  While, I do not have any finished costume pics to share, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the inspiration Eric and I are drawing from to create out individual looks.  Today I am going to talk about Eric’ and tomorrow I will share mine.

 

This is Obi-Wan’s costume from Episode 3.  This is not the picture I took, but it is from the same traveling Star Wars exhibit Eric and I went to see a few weeks ago.  Being able to see them up close was very helpful.  It was interesting to see all the detail work that went into them.  For example, the brown under tunic is actually a scarf that has parallel rows of stitching on it.  We incorporated the parallel stitching onto Eric’s under tunic.

This is Anakin’s costume from Episode 3, also from the same traveling exhibit.  This is closer to what Eric’s costume will look like.  His has several different textures just like this one.

 

These are different versions of Sith Acolyte masks from Knights of the Old Republic.  Eric is making his own version of this and it is looking quite well so far.  The idea behind wanting the mask stems from Eric wearing glasses and not having contacts.  Since glasses are not very Star Wars appropriate, he wanted something that he could put over them.  Luckily, we found a base mask that fit over his glasses.  I will be doing a whole post on just the mask, because it is that awesome.

These are Sith Acolytes.  While we are going this route this year, it is a good thought for next year.

 

For the cloak we took inspiration from Darth Maul’s cloak. Eric requested that the hood be very very large like this one.  I haven’t drafted this piece yet.  I was waiting until I got all the other components finished to make sure the fit was right.  My plan is that I should be able to get it drafted and muslined before this weekend and have Saturday and Sunday to make the actual finished garment.