For Apollo, dating Klavier has been nothing short of a whirlwind romance. Klavier is handsome, courteous, kind-hearted, and he seems to really like Apollo. Things are good. They’re great, actually.
Except nobody knows. They’ve kept their relationship a secret to avoid the paparazzi’s invasive gaze, but Apollo’s also not sure how to tell the Wrights that he’s dating the prosecutor that got Phoenix Wright disbarred anyway, so he’s happy to live in this blissful little bubble with Klavier forever.
But of course, Apollo’s life could never be that simple…
Happy Holidays to all my followers! It’s Ace Attorney once again this year, because nothing really says Christmas like wrightworth, whether it’s pre- or post-original trilogy. Enjoy the rest under the cut!
※Translated and reposted with the artist’s permission※
I knew from the start that this was gonna be one of my hardest costumes to make but I learned so much from it and I feel it really upped my construction game.
Black Dress:
I started with the dress because honestly it was the least intimidating part of the costume. I patterned the dress from scratch by tracing the outline of a stretchy dress onto some spare wrapping paper. I then added lines where the seams should go with masking tape while the dress was on my body and traced those lines onto my paper pattern. I then sewed up all the seams hemmed the top and bottom of the dress and it was done, super simple.
I made the dress out of a thick black stretch suiting for 3 reasons. 1) I had tons left over from another cosplay. 2) It was thick enough so I didn’t need to line it. 3) It had enough stretch that I didn’t need to add a zipper to my dress.
Magican’s Cape:
Next was the real challenge: the cape. The whole thing was made of basic broadcloth. I made a huge rectangle that would sit well around my shoulders and measured where I wanted the cape to fall. I then cut out two large rectangles from the blue fabric. On both rectangles I did some math in order to get exactly 9 dimonds to fit because I wanted to be SUPER accurate.
It took a few trials and paper patterns but eventually I got the right diamond size and I attached them to the bottom of the rectnagles using wonder under:
I carefully sewed up the two sides like a pillow and turned it right-side out, and proceeded to iron the heck out of it to get it flat. I then freehanded the colored suits that go on her diamonds and used wonder under to attach those as well.
Buttons/Brooch:
The buttons and brooch were actually 3D printed! It was my first time working with 3D printing ever! I was really lucky in the fact that my college has a 3D printing lab open to all studnets. I got help making the files from my friend who is an art major.
In order to smooth them out I painted 2-3 layers of wood glue on them and let them dry. I then painted the gold parts with spray paint and the silver and green parts with normal acrylic paints.
Top Hat:
The top hat gave me the BIGGEST issues. I originally tried to make one from scratch using a simpicity pattern but I couldn’t attach the two pieces and sewing through the interfacing broke 2 of my machine needles.
I was super discouraged when I found this tutorial on how to cover a top hat in fabric!
I bought a black top hat off ebay that came too short so I was super frustrated but my friend suggest I make it bigger by adding to the exsisting hat.
I added height to it with craft foam and covered the entire thing in blue cotton, that matched my cape by following the tutorial and carefully glueing it down with tackly glue.
Purse:
The very last thing I worked on, I made the parts from thick fuseable interfacing and cotton. The basic shapes were 2 thin rectangles where the zipper could be sewn into, another rectangle for the bottom, a strip to fit around my waist and two hearts. everything was hand sewn together, it took a rather long time but I love the result and my bag is 100% fuctional. The strip closes with industrial strength velcro.
Small Details:
I made the scarf from scrap cotton I had laying around, I made a leaf like shapes and sewed two of them right sides together, flipped and ironed.
I had the gloves and wig from a previous cosplay but they were originally from ebay. I attached bells to the cape by hand. The thigh high white boots were found on amazon.
Feel free to send me any questions! Happy cosplay ♥
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