S O N I A

This costume really walks the line of Bought/Modified vs Made. I thought about putting her in with the modified costumes, but I ended up doing a lot of work on her. More than I planned.

The wig was a twin-tail clip-in wig I got on Ali Express. I completely straightened and re-styled the ponytail, and sacrificed the second tail to sew extra wefts into the ponytail, and into the side of the base wig. I'm very pleased with it, for being a $17 wig. The glasses were bought on AliExpress, and I colored some of the side bits with a black sharpy so it all matched. They cost $3.

The shirt was made from frankenstein-ing together 2 rib-knit shirts, one which I got for free from being lost in the mail, and the second from my re-purchase cost $9. It was a 'one size' shirt, which was too small, and so I used one shirt to create wide inserts in the sides of the shirt and sleeves. Then, I dyed the whole thing, slowly and meticulously, because a teal-aqua v-knit rib knit shirt was nowhere to be found.

The coat was bought on AliExpress for $18 dollars. I did a lot of work on it that didn't end up mattering (listed below) and instead bought a last-minute white lab coat on Amazon for $20.

As for the peacoat, It was too small, but I ripped out the seams in the lining so I could stretch the faux wool to make it looser. I removed pieces like a set of shoulder tabs and a back belt, and used the extra fabrics to cover a new set of buttons for the front, and sacrificed the back belt to make the straps for her sleeves. I moved the buttons, and closed up the button holes that were no longer going to be used. Then, I hand-tacked all of the separate lining pieces back into place. It's a mess, and was a lot of work.

The pants are recycled from my Mimi costume, and the shoes were... a nightmare. The boots I bought on AliExpress, one of them had a manufacturing defect where the shoes was unwearably tight across my arch. I had to unpick stitches, add pieces of pleather, and essentially re-build a good portion of them. I added the color with Angelus leather paint. The straps are a black pleather I had lying around, and all of the hearts on the boots and in her hair were purchased from AliExpress for less than $2.