Lockhart costume preview
Jun. 23rd, 2007 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42The coat is all done except for the buttons. I've also done a pajamas outfit for the late-night movies, and I got the idea to make a mini-me teddy bear to go with it. I like the idea of Gilderoy buying his own merchandise and being comforted by a teddy bear that looks like himself. Here's the bear:
I also have pink hair curlers, gold satin jammies and a lilac bathrobe, monogrammed "GL." And matching fuzzy lilac slippers. It'll be great.
Apart from not having any pants, the bear's is a pretty good replica of my costume. Except I'll wear a shirt under it too. And the hat is bigger relative to my head. You can't see the hat very well. It's sort of a Robin Hood hat, with a peacock feather.
I'll practice making buttonholes today - I've never done that before - and I've got a bunch of navy material that goes with the pants so I can make a cape. I'll wear it on one shoulder like this:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2002/10/23/lockhart3.jpg
so it won't cover too much of the coat.
It's definitely book!Lockhart I'm going for - I just had to buy the material when I saw it and frankly I don't think movie!Lockhart's clothes are garish enough anyway. I hope it works. I think it'll be obvious whom I'm meant to be. That's the important thing. It can be hard for people going as school-age characters because unless you're someone with a really distinctive look, like Harry or Draco, it's hard to tell you're meant to be a specific character rather than just yourself as a student. And I think I have more leeway with Lockhart because he had so many different outfits in the movie. It would be harder to go as the book versions of Snape or McGonagall for example, because they always wear the same outfits in the movies. Which bugs me. Snape's movie outfit is very nice but I refuse to believe he has a closet full of identical black suits and nothing else.
I also have pink hair curlers, gold satin jammies and a lilac bathrobe, monogrammed "GL." And matching fuzzy lilac slippers. It'll be great.
Apart from not having any pants, the bear's is a pretty good replica of my costume. Except I'll wear a shirt under it too. And the hat is bigger relative to my head. You can't see the hat very well. It's sort of a Robin Hood hat, with a peacock feather.
I'll practice making buttonholes today - I've never done that before - and I've got a bunch of navy material that goes with the pants so I can make a cape. I'll wear it on one shoulder like this:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2002/10/23/lockhart3.jpg
so it won't cover too much of the coat.
It's definitely book!Lockhart I'm going for - I just had to buy the material when I saw it and frankly I don't think movie!Lockhart's clothes are garish enough anyway. I hope it works. I think it'll be obvious whom I'm meant to be. That's the important thing. It can be hard for people going as school-age characters because unless you're someone with a really distinctive look, like Harry or Draco, it's hard to tell you're meant to be a specific character rather than just yourself as a student. And I think I have more leeway with Lockhart because he had so many different outfits in the movie. It would be harder to go as the book versions of Snape or McGonagall for example, because they always wear the same outfits in the movies. Which bugs me. Snape's movie outfit is very nice but I refuse to believe he has a closet full of identical black suits and nothing else.
