Roman Costume: Help!
May 11, 2009 § 4 Comments
I’ve been asked by a good friend to make her son a costume for his birthday coming up at the end of the month. I’m wondering if you all can give me some ideas. Here’s a picture of what he would like (though he doesn’t know I’m making him a costume):
Sorry for the blurr. I’m figuring I’ll have an easy time making him a white tunic but it’s the armour or chest plate that I’m wondering about. He’d really like this design and I’d like to make it happen. How would you get this design on fabric? What kind of fabric would you use? He really likes the gold…
This is such a fun project.
what if you used gold fabric and then painted the details on with silver?
Felt is really easy to work with, but may be too hot for a summer costume. Another benefit of felt is that you wouldn’t have to sew it, but could use fusing fabric to attach it to the tunic, and the design in silver could also be attached with fusing fabric.
I was also going to suggest felt, but silver paint was another good idea.
thanks!