Discord Costume Part 2 - Jacket

This is the first part of the Discord costume I completed. I don't have stages of the process but I will tell you about the pattern and what I did. Since I didn't have a sewing machine at the time I went over to a friends house and used hers.

For this jacket the materials I used were
- Heavy weight fusible interfacing
- Chocolate $2.00 per meter cotton polyester fabric
- Black lining
- Two large sew on snaps
- Burda Style pattern 7211 Vest and Jacket
- Thread that matches the cotton fabric

This is the pattern and I used the over coat with the sleeves. Since Discord has two different arms, a lion and an eagle, we altered the pattern so that we only had one sleeve on the left. This sleeve was also shortened so that it could be folded up once at the elbow, this made the arm look like the leg feathers of an eagle. Because we altered the pattern we needed to add extra fabric to the shoulder of the right so that the front and back pieces were connected. For Discord we also altered the pattern so there was only lining on the inside of the jacket and not the sleeves. This thickened the jacket and gave it more shape but left the sleeves free for the arm fabrics.

Once the jacket was finished I hot blued two snaps to the middle section at the front. I used snaps instead of buttons because they would be easier for me to undo when in my costume. If I had buttons I would struggle to grab it with my gloves whereas I can just pull the snaps apart with gloves on. 

This is the front of the completed jacket and sorry the pictures are a little grainy, it is because I was using my ipod touch. You can see I let the lining show to create more colour and a wider collar. I'f you where going make this costume you could use brown lining but black was all I had at the time. I like the look of the smaller jacket that stops at my waist because it made me look slimmer and a bit shapely. I don't have any curves so this helps a lot and looks great in pictures.

This is the back on the top of the right shoulder you can see where I added the extra piece of fabric to join the back and front shoulders together. The right arm is the lion arm and I wanted it to look a lot more bulky then the left so I left quite a bit of space. Leaving the sleeve on the left made it look slimmer.

If you hadn't guessed yet from my concept sketches my costume is going to be feminine. I know that Discord is male but I thought this would make an excellent cosplay. No one else has done a female Discord so I thought it would be unique.

My next post will be on the horns and how I made them and got them to sit properly on my head.