How to Make a Cosplay Costume for Asuna Yuuki from Sword Art Online
Collect your materials., Once this step is complete put the shirt on and pull across one side of the shirt as if your doing up a bathrobe., Grab your red ribbon and with many pins, pin down the ribbon mimicking the pattern that is on asuna's...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Collect your materials.
Take your white dress and cut off the collar.
Later re-attach this using a sewing machine to achieve Asuna's high collared top.
If you couldn't find a white dress that is sleeveless and button up
- two white business shirts will also work for this.
With the business shirt pup up the collar and cut it off
- reattaching it to achieve the high collar yet again and cut off the skirts sleeves leaving you with what looks a bit like a vest. -
Step 2: Once this step is complete put the shirt on and pull across one side of the shirt as if your doing up a bathrobe.
Once it is fitted across your body the way you want it to be , mark where it lines up with a lead pencil.
Where you mark this put Velcro on the underside of the shirt here and the shirt so you can hold the shirt in place. , Once pinned down and you are happy with your arrangement, sew the ribbon onto the costume using a sewing machine, ( be careful not to sew the costume together in any unnecessary places.) , Just fold the material cut the access and sew the front of the material to create the small arrow.
Hem the dress if it is too long.
If you are using a business shirt proceed to grab your white material and sew this on to the bottom of the shirt to create the half skirt that is attached via a sewing machine to the top of the costume. , To achieve this, hold the piece of paper up to your chest and shape it against this, trying to crease the paper against your curves- or take a pencil and draw a light curved outline around your chest area to create the armor plate.
Once you are happy with the shape cut this out of the piece of paper, pin it to your material and cut it out.
You may need to use stiffer white fabric for this to achieve stronger armor. , Also cut this out and layer with several other pieces of material and sew together.
Once this is complete take your silver fabric paint and paint around the outside of your armor plate and in pencil draw on the crosses and then paint those also. , Repeat this beneath this first circle leaving a gap.
This is simplest way of recreating asuna's socks.
If you wish to recreate her socks perfectly pull the socks on and look carefully at pictures of the character in her costume.
Use pins as a guideline and pin the ribbon in the patterns you see on to your socks.
The way to do this is on the side of the socks the tops are almost a semi circle the sides of which come down at the front and back of your leg giving that angled look.
For the top of the socks do half a semi circle shape above the semi circle on the stocking that has been pinned on with the ribbon.
Sew the ribbon on and then proceed to cut the excess sock into the desired shape leaving room to fold over the top and sew in order to hem the sock and prevent any fraying.
To hold the socks up you could use elastic beneath the tops of the socks and securing it around the tops of your legs or there is available at some craft shops spray on adhesive.
You can spray this (skin friendly glue) to your stockings and they should hold. otherwise- double sided tape of the likes that is used on bra's isn't a bad idea also. , The part where your heel sits can be pulled up and directly placed over your elbow.
Hem the socks by turning them inside out folding the tops over where you've cut them and sew them to prevent fraying.
Cut the opposite end of the sock into a circular V almost so the top of the V reaches the knuckle of your index finger and opens at your wrist underneath.
To the part beneath the V sew some of the lace- and to the top of V using fabric paint, just paint the outer parts of the V on the top so they look like asuna's arm sleeves. to the tops of the sleeves using your sewing machine sew the lace completely around the tops of the arms.
If the lace is too long you can turn the sleeves inside out, fold the lace in a zigzag pattern (not the top!) kind of underneath itself and sew this to make the lace shorter- when the turn the sleeves back the right way out the lace should be shorter and hold itself up easily. , It's quite simple.
Otherwise you could for comfort purchase a pair of canvas flat shoes and paint these instead. , Purchase an orangish blonde colour- or whatever you see fit.
The color of asuna's hair is debatable. , It looks for reference when flat
- a bit like the union jack. this isn't too difficult to work out.
Place your pattern onto the piece of red material and cut it out twice.
Sew the pieces of material together, once shaped spray with fabric stiffener only after sewing gold ribbon around the outer edges.
- using Velcro you will attach this to the upper part of your back and to the fronts of your chest one on either side. for the arm loops connect them using Velcro also. -
Step 3: Grab your red ribbon and with many pins
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Step 4: pin down the ribbon mimicking the pattern that is on asuna's costume.
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Step 5: If you have a dress
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Step 6: cut out the front of the dress where desired to create asuna's half skirt leaving the front hanging so you can create the arrow front.
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Step 7: For your shield
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Step 8: use white fabric (all you need to do is draw the flattened shape of the shield on an A3 sized piece of paper).
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Step 9: Draw the top of the shields armour plate on to a separate piece of paper and pin to white material.
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Step 10: For asuna's socks
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Step 11: take one pair of your knee high socks and with your red ribbon sew it in a circle around the top of the sock.
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Step 12: To create the arm bands
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Step 13: take your second pair of socks and cut off the toe part of the sock only.
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Step 14: For the shoes - if possible you can purchase kids school ankle boots (flat ones) and spray paint them white and with the fabric paint paint on the design of asuna's shoes by eye.
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Step 15: Purchase a wig for Asuna's hair unless you already have hair similar to hers.
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Step 16: For the bit that hands of asuna's arms- to create this we laid out a flat piece of paper proceeded to draw the flattened version of it on the ground.
Detailed Guide
Take your white dress and cut off the collar.
Later re-attach this using a sewing machine to achieve Asuna's high collared top.
If you couldn't find a white dress that is sleeveless and button up
- two white business shirts will also work for this.
With the business shirt pup up the collar and cut it off
- reattaching it to achieve the high collar yet again and cut off the skirts sleeves leaving you with what looks a bit like a vest.
Once it is fitted across your body the way you want it to be , mark where it lines up with a lead pencil.
Where you mark this put Velcro on the underside of the shirt here and the shirt so you can hold the shirt in place. , Once pinned down and you are happy with your arrangement, sew the ribbon onto the costume using a sewing machine, ( be careful not to sew the costume together in any unnecessary places.) , Just fold the material cut the access and sew the front of the material to create the small arrow.
Hem the dress if it is too long.
If you are using a business shirt proceed to grab your white material and sew this on to the bottom of the shirt to create the half skirt that is attached via a sewing machine to the top of the costume. , To achieve this, hold the piece of paper up to your chest and shape it against this, trying to crease the paper against your curves- or take a pencil and draw a light curved outline around your chest area to create the armor plate.
Once you are happy with the shape cut this out of the piece of paper, pin it to your material and cut it out.
You may need to use stiffer white fabric for this to achieve stronger armor. , Also cut this out and layer with several other pieces of material and sew together.
Once this is complete take your silver fabric paint and paint around the outside of your armor plate and in pencil draw on the crosses and then paint those also. , Repeat this beneath this first circle leaving a gap.
This is simplest way of recreating asuna's socks.
If you wish to recreate her socks perfectly pull the socks on and look carefully at pictures of the character in her costume.
Use pins as a guideline and pin the ribbon in the patterns you see on to your socks.
The way to do this is on the side of the socks the tops are almost a semi circle the sides of which come down at the front and back of your leg giving that angled look.
For the top of the socks do half a semi circle shape above the semi circle on the stocking that has been pinned on with the ribbon.
Sew the ribbon on and then proceed to cut the excess sock into the desired shape leaving room to fold over the top and sew in order to hem the sock and prevent any fraying.
To hold the socks up you could use elastic beneath the tops of the socks and securing it around the tops of your legs or there is available at some craft shops spray on adhesive.
You can spray this (skin friendly glue) to your stockings and they should hold. otherwise- double sided tape of the likes that is used on bra's isn't a bad idea also. , The part where your heel sits can be pulled up and directly placed over your elbow.
Hem the socks by turning them inside out folding the tops over where you've cut them and sew them to prevent fraying.
Cut the opposite end of the sock into a circular V almost so the top of the V reaches the knuckle of your index finger and opens at your wrist underneath.
To the part beneath the V sew some of the lace- and to the top of V using fabric paint, just paint the outer parts of the V on the top so they look like asuna's arm sleeves. to the tops of the sleeves using your sewing machine sew the lace completely around the tops of the arms.
If the lace is too long you can turn the sleeves inside out, fold the lace in a zigzag pattern (not the top!) kind of underneath itself and sew this to make the lace shorter- when the turn the sleeves back the right way out the lace should be shorter and hold itself up easily. , It's quite simple.
Otherwise you could for comfort purchase a pair of canvas flat shoes and paint these instead. , Purchase an orangish blonde colour- or whatever you see fit.
The color of asuna's hair is debatable. , It looks for reference when flat
- a bit like the union jack. this isn't too difficult to work out.
Place your pattern onto the piece of red material and cut it out twice.
Sew the pieces of material together, once shaped spray with fabric stiffener only after sewing gold ribbon around the outer edges.
- using Velcro you will attach this to the upper part of your back and to the fronts of your chest one on either side. for the arm loops connect them using Velcro also.
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