Hi, I'm new here.
I've been doing costumes of various types for quite a few years now, and doing something from Star Wars was always something I wanted to do. During the last couple of months I decided that this "something" would be a mandalorian.
And a few days ago I finally started the whole project by sewing the soft parts
this is what I have right now:
The vest, the neck seal and the kama are made from the same fabric (but don't aks me what it's called, I have no idear) and the vest is fully padded ('cause my plates will probably be metal). It also closes on the sides with Velcro. (I kinda got inspired by how bullet proof vests look)
For the shoulders, I tired to be fancy and used a star-like design instead of just doing the quilting parallel
And this is what the vest looks like, without me inside it:
(I know that the seams look kinda strange but I tried to make the pattern with the leas amount of pieces as possible while still making it fit to my body... I probably should have used my body-form to make my pattern, but I currently keep a leather armor on it, so it doesn't loose it's shape)
here is a small close up of the flatend seams I did on the flap of the neck seal:
And, last but not least, my kama:
It isn't quit done yet, 'cause I'm not sure how I will attach it.
also, yes the inside is a slightly different color, cause by that point I had run out of fabric...(what you see on the inside was left over from a holster I made last year, it's slightly stretchy and slightly lighter in color)
so that's about it...
if any of you are wondering about my colors, I'm gonna make the plates in a dark/navy blue with some symbols in black and some gold trimming
now for the part where I ask some (stupid) questions...
these are the boots I'm gonna use:
do you think they would work?
and most of all,
what kind of belt/belts can you recommend and am I missing any of the soft parts?