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Mimi Tachikawa. Digimon Adventure

Worn At - Kitacon 2010
Difficulty - 3/5
Time Taken - 3 weeks
Cost - £70GBP
Costume Status -Active
Hardest Task - Hat
Easiest Task - Dress/poncho

Favourite Aspect - Hat, dress, poncho

Least Favourite - Boots

Why? - I was a massive Digimon Adventure fan, and still continue to be! Seriously, I'm a total nerd for anything Digimon related, provided its about season 01 and 02. I was having a real creative block and then suddenly upon visiting Midlands Expo and seeing a Digimon group there, my creativity came back within days. My friend Emily and I met through the Digimon fandom, and decided we would do a matching cosplay of Mimi and Sora for 01 to show that! XD I picked Mimi, I love her character and its another oppertunity for me to run around being a total girl all day!

Construction Notes

Undoubtedly the easiest part of this costume was the dress and the poncho. I was looking for patterns in fabricland, and after a few false starts managed to find two perfect pattterns which would only need a bit of editting. for the poncho I used a Kwiksew 3219, which would require me only to shorten the poncho once it was sewn. And for the dress I found a selection of McCalls patterns called 'one hour dress'. It was perfect because Mimi's dress doesn't appear to have seams anywhere, but obviously it would need seams. This dress had no seams down the front, just two side seams, so it was perfect. The pattern was McCalls 9172.

After getting everything home it took me about three hours to get the dress and the poncho made out of dark pink jersey fabric. I searched for a very long time for the correct pink/red colour, and had to settle with the closest FabricLand had. But it was fine. Mimi's poncho has a massive brown button on the front, so I raided my mum's button box, found a suitable button sewed this on the front of the poncho and the added a snap fastener so I could get the poncho on over my head, and it just did straight back up! The dress just slips on over my head, but has a button at the back to keep it done up.

The hat took me two attempts. Both attempts I used buckram. The first attempt I used pale pink jersey fabric I had left over, and made the buckram base before covering it. It wasn't the best idea because it meant I had to fit the jersey over the ready made base and the jersey just ended up messy with lots of exposed edges etc. The second attempt I thought more about and used pink felt. I made each part of the hat separately from buckram, so made the rim, cylinder and then the lid to the cylinder (its the only way I can think of explaining the different bits of the hat!). I cut two pieces of felt for the rim about an inch bigger than I needed, sewed that together leaving a gap at the back to slip the buckram through. Prior to this I had cut a hole in both the buckram and the felt for my head to go through. After slipping the buckram into the hat and matching up the holes, the open area at the back of the rim was sewn closed. Then the cylinder and the lid had felt glued to them, and were hot glued to the rim. The hat worked really well on this attempt. The last touch was to add some white chord for the strings down the side of the hat.

The gloves I found and bought from a seller on ebay, and the belt was a lucky find in Primark which I also bought. The boots are a pair of altered pixie boots I already owned. They were sprayed white and then painted white with acrylic paint for additional coverage. The brown sections are brown felt, hot glue to the inside of the boots and to the outside. The slouch socks Mimi wears are just two tubes of felt sewn together, shoved into the shoes and then pushed down on my leg so they stay slouched!

The wig was a pain in the ass. I bought a nice long brown one from professional only on eBay without bangs, so I could just keep two long segments forward and then tie the rest up to hide under the hat. doing this though made the wig really, really heavy so I took drastic measures and basically carved away at the wig until the back was really short and left the two long sections at the front. To stop them from getting in my face, I still have to keep them clipped up to keep to the side, but it works fairly well. :]

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Taken by CowgirlEm

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