Does Your Princess Leia Costume Suck? Then Try These Tips: Tutorials to sew and make your own Leia costume.
Princess Leia is a great character from the original Star Wars. There are many ways to dress up as her.
In Episode IV, the costume consists of a white shirt, belt, bikini top with skirt and white boots.
If you want to be Princess Leia when she was held captive on the Death Star, you will need metal chains and a black hood/blindfold.
If you’re going for Leia from Return of the Jedi, you’ll need a shiny metal bikini top and skirt. You can buy it at several online stores or make it yourself with aluminum foil and duct tape (I suggest making one out of fabric instead of using real metal). Get some big hair and wrap gold chains around your wrist. You may also want to carry a staff with a glowing ball on it.
You can find lots of instructions online for making your own costume.
Whether you want to make a costume for Halloween, Comic Con, or just for fun, here’s how to make a Princess Leia costume that rocks.
We’ll show you exactly how to make your own Princess Leia costume for Halloween or cosplay, using our step-by-step instructions and templates.
The white dress is the most iconic part of the Princess Leia costume. It’s also the trickiest to get right. You can buy a cheap one at a party store and make it look decent, but if you want perfection, making your own is the way to go. We’ll show you exactly how with this detailed tutorial.
We all know that Princess Leia is one of the hottest female characters out there. And her costume, in all its forms, is pretty sexy. However, it’s not always easy to pull off a good Leia costume. In fact, a bad Leia costume can be downright embarrassing.
In this article I will give you a few tips for making and buying Leia costumes that really work. First, we’ll start with the original version from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
Princess Leia Costume from Episode IV: A New Hope
Have you ever wanted to dress up as Princess Leia? It is really easy. Even if you don’t have any sewing skills or a pattern, you can make your own costume in a few hours.
This page is designed to be practical, not purist. If you can get a perfect costume for $40, buy it and save yourself the time and frustration. But if you’re like me, maybe you’d rather make it yourself, no matter how much longer it takes. I’ll try to show how to make the costume with minimum effort, but still get a good result.
I’m not going to show how to do the hair. There are plenty of tutorials out there already. But I will give a few tips on Leia hair accessories at the end of this page.
I’ve had a lot of questions on how to make/modify a Leia costume. I don’t know why people think it’s so easy! It’s not! Hopefully this page can help you out.
These are just some tips, some photos and some links on where to find the right kind of fabric and accessories. You’ll have to figure the rest out yourself. Unfortunately, this is the best I can do without writing an entire book on costume construction. This page is for you if you’re already familiar with sewing and draping. If you are not, I’m sorry but this page won’t help much!
I am not responsible for any mistakes you make in creating your own costume. I do not sell costumes, patterns or anything related to them.
If you’re going to a costume party, and you’re lucky enough to be a girl, you might want to go as Princess Leia. But if you’re like me, and don’t sew, you’ll probably end up buying a Princess Leia costume. This guide is for people like me who aren’t the handiest with needle and thread (or even the glue gun).
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