Made By A Fabricista: Stone World Fashion

Dr. Stone is one of my favorite animes overall, it's premise being the whole world was turned to stone for 3700 years and following the adventures of Senku and his Kingdom of Science to try and restore all of humanity.

When UwU Con announced their guest lineup had several voices from the show I knew I had to cosplay one of my favorite characters from the show, Nikki Hanada! I opted for her first outfit, a more simple green dress.

For my fabric choices I wanted to go with what fabrics would be plausible for the show, so I opted for this green medium-heavy weight wool and a beige linen novelty weave suiting for her belt to add a bit of texture.

To add additional dimension to the dress, I used spray fabric paint in black on my cut out pieces around the edges to give the dress more dimension with a look of wear and tear and dirt. (Don't tell my mom I stained my porch!)

The pattern I used was one of my go to patterns, I couldn't tell you what the original medieval princess pattern it once was, I've just repeatedly traced it from project to project, this time from my Ogre Fiona cosplay which was copied from my Merida cosplay, which was copied from a dress from my high school play costume. I did end up adding a dart at center back to be able to get a tighter fit at the waist without sacrificing the fullness of the skirt and reshaped the neckline and shoulders for a thinner strap.

Aside from the seams that were sewn and pressed, I left the edges raw since the wool wasn't at risk for fraying and I don't think the characters cared for beat hems in the stone world. For the belt I did seam together several 6” wide strips together with flat felled seams and finished the edges with a rolled hem.

Once I had the dress assembled, I then needed to play around with the side slits, my skirt was fuller than I needed it to be so it took a little trial and error to cut away enough without cutting away too much.

The next challenge was the large holes that the belt passes through, for this I was able to find curtain grommets that looked like metal and fit the size I needed. It was absolutely nerve wracking to cut large holes into my dress, but they turned out exactly as I hoped!

With that and a couple of scrap leather hair bows, my Nikki cosplay was done! She's definitely a more niche character in the large cast of great characters, but I love her for her strength and her morals that lead her to be the “big sister” that keeps some of the other characters in line!

MINA | @cosplaytology

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