Princess Tiana Cosplay Gown: Tutorial/Talkthrough (#PrincessAndTheFrog)
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Publicado em 2019-05-01
what's good? how ya doin? it's ya girl Dee back with another cosplay video.
this one i wanted to bring you, because i didn't see any others like it at all when i needed a reference video.
recently, i cosplayed as Princess Tiana from the Princess and the Frog, her Lily/Wedding Dress, and though it's been cosplayed quite a bit, there are no reference videos or tutorials or patterns that i could find. so i recorded the entire build and wanted to go through it piece by piece with you.
it's a 35 minute video, but keep in mind, this is footage and a build that i created over 18 days. i wouldn't recommend sewing an entire ballgown in 18 days. but i challenged myself to have it done for an event, which i was able to accomplish.
a few things i don't think i mentioned in the video:
yards of fabric you will need:
hoop skirt yardage: however wide it is. my hoopskirt was 130 inches wide, roughly, which equates to just over 4 yards.
ribbon: i went through 5x9 feet spools. (it was all on clearance.)
elastic: enough to go around your waist 3 times. that could actually be just a single pack depending on how long it is.
petticoat--
circle skirt pattern: simplicity 1200, called for 4 yards but i got a little more.
netting: somewhere around 8-10 yards per tier of your petticoat. i still have a ton leftover. you can never have too much since you have to gather the fabric, and the tighter you pull the gathering, the fluffier it will be. though if your sewing machine has a gathering function, or you have a gathering foot attachment, you're good.
skirt pattern: i used the McCalls M6376 in the misses size, that was $1.00 from Scraps KC. i used the bottom skirt pieces and cut the fabric on the fold so that they were extra long to go around.
skirt yardage: about 7-8 total. it was hemmed with a side cutter foot attachment and then pressed with my iron.
i may not have mentioned that everything was pressed/ironed as well.
petal detail: about 5 -7 yards depending on how many petals you want and how long. i don't recommend glittery fabric.
leaves and bodice fabric: about 6 yards, give or take, depending on the size of the leaves. i measured those against the petal detail to see how big and how wide i wanted them, before sketching the out.
bodice base was fashioned from pattern pieces from the McCalls M7320, which i used for my Neo Queen Serenity dress. since i already cut out the pieces to my size, i didn't have to make any further modifications other than scalloping the underarm part since that flopped a little bit when i first cut it.
tutorial i followed for the hoop skirt:
just be sure to do math/measurements for your own sizing.
other than that, i think i genuinely covered everything in the video. exact measurements of the leaf pieces were a little tricky. the petals were about 40 inches long, and the biggest leaf was about 36 inches long and 24 (ish) wide. what i would do is use the cut out shell/stencil from the largest leaf and fold that to make the smaller leaf stencil, cut that out and repeat to make a smaller one, and so forth. the leaf detail on the bodice i sketched out, it was about 5 -7 inches wide and the green pieces were the longest pieces. scraps were used to make the white bodice details and the crown.
if you have ANY questions, please feel free to DM me on instagram:
, and be sure to let me know you came from youtube.
or e-mail me at diana@dianathegreat.com and i'll get back with you as soon as i can.
stay the course! you're "almost there."
this one i wanted to bring you, because i didn't see any others like it at all when i needed a reference video.
recently, i cosplayed as Princess Tiana from the Princess and the Frog, her Lily/Wedding Dress, and though it's been cosplayed quite a bit, there are no reference videos or tutorials or patterns that i could find. so i recorded the entire build and wanted to go through it piece by piece with you.
it's a 35 minute video, but keep in mind, this is footage and a build that i created over 18 days. i wouldn't recommend sewing an entire ballgown in 18 days. but i challenged myself to have it done for an event, which i was able to accomplish.
a few things i don't think i mentioned in the video:
yards of fabric you will need:
hoop skirt yardage: however wide it is. my hoopskirt was 130 inches wide, roughly, which equates to just over 4 yards.
ribbon: i went through 5x9 feet spools. (it was all on clearance.)
elastic: enough to go around your waist 3 times. that could actually be just a single pack depending on how long it is.
petticoat--
circle skirt pattern: simplicity 1200, called for 4 yards but i got a little more.
netting: somewhere around 8-10 yards per tier of your petticoat. i still have a ton leftover. you can never have too much since you have to gather the fabric, and the tighter you pull the gathering, the fluffier it will be. though if your sewing machine has a gathering function, or you have a gathering foot attachment, you're good.
skirt pattern: i used the McCalls M6376 in the misses size, that was $1.00 from Scraps KC. i used the bottom skirt pieces and cut the fabric on the fold so that they were extra long to go around.
skirt yardage: about 7-8 total. it was hemmed with a side cutter foot attachment and then pressed with my iron.
i may not have mentioned that everything was pressed/ironed as well.
petal detail: about 5 -7 yards depending on how many petals you want and how long. i don't recommend glittery fabric.
leaves and bodice fabric: about 6 yards, give or take, depending on the size of the leaves. i measured those against the petal detail to see how big and how wide i wanted them, before sketching the out.
bodice base was fashioned from pattern pieces from the McCalls M7320, which i used for my Neo Queen Serenity dress. since i already cut out the pieces to my size, i didn't have to make any further modifications other than scalloping the underarm part since that flopped a little bit when i first cut it.
tutorial i followed for the hoop skirt:
just be sure to do math/measurements for your own sizing.
other than that, i think i genuinely covered everything in the video. exact measurements of the leaf pieces were a little tricky. the petals were about 40 inches long, and the biggest leaf was about 36 inches long and 24 (ish) wide. what i would do is use the cut out shell/stencil from the largest leaf and fold that to make the smaller leaf stencil, cut that out and repeat to make a smaller one, and so forth. the leaf detail on the bodice i sketched out, it was about 5 -7 inches wide and the green pieces were the longest pieces. scraps were used to make the white bodice details and the crown.
if you have ANY questions, please feel free to DM me on instagram:
, and be sure to let me know you came from youtube.
or e-mail me at diana@dianathegreat.com and i'll get back with you as soon as i can.
stay the course! you're "almost there."
