Pierrot: The Shirt Collar

Collar, wig, and gloves implemented!

Hi!

Well, the shirt is almost done! That's exciting!

The collar is made of a very long rectangular strip of cloth (about 50'' long and 10'' wide), which was made very similarly to the neck of the shirt— we used the same cinching technique (a shoe lace threaded through the top hem), but we made the collar wider than the shirt neck so that it would bunch up more.

Then, for a Halloween-y flourish, my father sewed this cobwebby-bat-themed tulle that we had left over from another project in pleats inside that collar while it was un-cinched, and then we scrunched it up again and voilà! A perfect Halloween finish. We left the back unfastened, but you could also sew it up, which will make it less likely to pop open in the back. Now the only thing left to do on the shirt is the pom-pom buttons!

Because the shirt was coming together, I went ahead and tested out the wig (reused from my Ciel Phantomhive cosplay) and black gloves (also from my Ciel cosplay!) — I'm very happy with how the wig looks, I like the longer length for a Halloweenish Pierrot! The gloves also pick up the black in the ruff and, in the future, the pom-poms, which is good.

That's all for now! Happy Halloween!