Coolest Naughty Forest Nymph Costume 9
by Marijke Jensen
(London, UK)
Forest Nymph Costume
This naughty forest nymph costume was made for the Elf Fantasy Fair in the Netherlands last April. First of all I have to admit, I bought the corset, but only because I didn't have a pattern to make one. The idea came with the skirt.
It was an old wedding dress that I used as a Halloween costume. So I cut off the top, painted the skirt green (synthetic so had to use water based paint), then added the leaves. Each leaf was ironed onto fusible interfacing and cut by hand. That alone took a few months. Then I sewed them all onto the skirt, partially by machine and the rest by hand. I added green netting just in case the dress had to be lifted.
Sadly you cant really see the cloak but I also made this out of brown/orange organza with a green shine. The sleeves were lined with dark green fleece (very warm!) and the glovelets were made seperately. I then added fake leaves to the back of the cloak. I also used fleece around the next to fasten the cloak.
The handbag was also an existing handbag on which I glued a piece of orange/brown suede and green fleece and decorated this with leaves and little fabric flowers. The hair is sadly not all my own, I used a clip in with dreads in my own colour and added woolen dreads in various shades of green that I made myself.
The horns were cast by a friend out of gypsum type material and I painted these myself in matching colours. All in all this costume took my about 6 months to make.
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