Soi Fon II

As much as I love the way this costume looks from the back, here's the front of Soi Fon

costume made an worn by me

photography by the wonderful


construction notes!
This was my first wig! It's a plain bob that I trimmed a bit. The pigtails are the nylon core of a rope with pre-made bias tape woven around them. At the ends there is embroidery floss in a loop holding up gold bangles.
The sleeves were cannibalized from an old unitard.
I made up some sort of pattern out of thin air for the halter top out of muslin before making it for real out of the black stretch cotton, but really it's a miracle it turned out as well as it did! I purposely made it a little more modest than Soi Fon's real outfit.
For the hakama I followed online instructions for a costume hakama provided by someone awesome on deviantart. It's been so long I don't remember exactly who. It may have been ~Midnight-Zephyr.
Soi Fon doesn't wear the normal shinigami sandals, she wears tai chi shoes! So for shoes I layered white socks with black socks cut to a stirrup shape and bought tai chi shoes.